Accountant

Job Summary of the Accountant

Perform and coordinate accounting duties within our organization. The accountant’s responsibilities include preparing financial reports, performing account reconciliations, maintaining the general ledger, preparing tax returns, assisting with audit preparations, and performing other accounting duties as assigned.

Duties / Responsibilities of the Accountant

To be successful as an Accountant, you should have a solid working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and strong financial analysis skills. An outstanding Senior Accountant should also possess strong Excel skills, be detail-oriented, highly organized, and be able to work with little to no supervision and perform under pressure.

Accountant Responsibilities:

• Maintains fixed asset records in compliance with established standards, policies, and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), as applicable
• Executes transactions within the fixed asset system to properly add, adjust, retire, and transfer assets, and understands the accounting implications of such transactions
• Ensures capital spending and alignment with corporate policies and authorized limits
• Ensures proper logging of all capital expenditure requests with all formal approvals and processes
• Manages budgetary and forecast activities and monitors and resolves taxation issues
• Works closely with other departments and business units to ensure that capital expenditure requests and related payments are processed in a timely and accurate manner
• Supports staff with transaction inquiries
• Handle month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial closing activities in the ERP and for external and internal reporting
• Maintain a chart of accounts
• Calculate commissions/royalties
• Review journal entries for Controller approval
• Prepare lease schedules and review contracts for capital leases (experience with lease accounting preferred)
• Maintain fixed assets sub-ledger, register and roll forward, and coordinate quarterly actual vs budget review meetings
• Performing other accounting duties and supporting junior staff as required or assigned.
• Prepare monthly financial statements, reports, and records by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing account information
• Maintaining and reconciling balance sheets and general ledger accounts.
• Other financial and profitability analyses on a requested basis
• Coordinating accounting functions and programs.
• Preparing financial analyses and reports.
• Preparing revenue projections and forecasting expenditures.
• Assisting with preparing and monitoring budgets.
• Assist in the development of the annual operating budget and consult with departmental management on the fiscal aspects of program planning, and other administrative actions
• Reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts (prepaid, accruals, fixed assets, etc.)
• Responsible for general ledger and oversight of sub-ledger reconciliations (A/R, A/P, and cash)
• Compile and analyze financial information to prepare journal entries for accounts such as A/R aging, A/P aging, general ledger accounts, and document business transactions as part of the monthly close process
• Provide Corporate Reporting requirements
• Monitor and review accounting and related system reports for accuracy and completeness
• Support enhancement and implementation of financial and accounting systems, processes, tools and control systems
• Ensure maintenance of appropriate internal controls and financial procedures
• Assisting with annual audit preparations.
• Interact with internal and external auditors in completing audits
• Investigating and resolving audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of non-compliance.
• Assisting with the preparation of diverse tax calculations.
• Prepare and file various tax reports or liaise with a Tax Consultant (support for State and Federal tax provisions and returns, tangible property, sales and use tax, abandoned property)
• Contributing to the development of new or amended accounting systems, programs, and procedures.
• Provide accounting policy orientation for new staff
• Serve as backup for cost accounting functions
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor or management

Note: This description is an outline of the major recurring responsibilities of the job. It is not intended to be all-inclusive of the work to be performed. Other related job objectives, special assignments, and less significant responsibilities typically performed by the incumbent are not included.

Required skills/abilities of the Accountant

• Excellent knowledge of tax laws and GAAP.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong attention to detail and good analytical skills.
• Advanced MS Excel skills including Vlookups and pivot tables

Education and Experience of the Accountant

• 3-5 years of technical accounting experience
• BSc in Accounting required, CPA or CMA a plus
• Audit experience 2-4 years a plus
• Experience with general ledger functions is a must
• Manufacturing experience a plus