[Hiring] Senior Accountant @Elite Talent Recruit

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Senior Accounting Manager, the Senior Accountant’s responsibility is to keep financial records up to date all while keeping a pulse on day-to-day transactions, ensuring their validity, accuracy and completeness. This includes entry of bank transactions, credit card transactions, monitoring e-commerce platforms, and correspondences on the accounting email on a daily basis. This role also provides support for accurate and timely financial reporting to management for important business decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Accounts Payable: Processes weekly Accounts Payable in a timely and accurate fashion; Review and assists with Accounts Payable bill entry on a daily basis; Collects necessary vendor records; Creates a weekly approval form for the CFO; Makes bill payments to vendors (checks, ACHs)
• Accounts Receivable: Processes weekly Accounts Receivable in a timely and accurate fashion; assists wholesale department with payment reconciliations and credit memo creation and approvals; Generates a weekly Retail complimentary products report, including giveaways; Makes bank deposits for cash and Accounts Receivable checks; drafts and sends communication with customers including depositing checks, and outstanding Accounts receivable. Supports Collection Emails if necessary.
• Payroll: Reviews hourly timesheets; Creates the payroll entry report; enters prelim payroll batches into payroll software; sets up new employees in payroll
• 401K: Enters 401(k) entries for employees and reconciled to payroll
• Cash Flow Forecast: Prepares, updates, and manages the cash flow forecast report on a weekly basis for the Accounting Manager to analyze
• Cash, Bank and Credit Card Entry and Reconciliation: Review and assists with daily transaction entry for our banks and credit card that are timely and accurate; Performs receipt matching and expense reviewal for legitimacy using Expensify; reviews and matches coding buckets of transactions based on yearly departmental budgets; reconciles inventory payment requests; Completes a weekly Retail cash deposit reconciliation
• Month-End Reconciliation: Support month end close process, including balance sheet schedules/reconciliations with assistance from accounting managers. Supports reconciliations of bank accounts, merchant accounts and credit cards.
• Inventory Reconciliation and Support: Support on Reconciliation of Inventory and working cross functionally with Operations and logistics on Inventory management, receiving of goods, transfer of goods, and other accounting transactions related to inventory.
• Internal Control/ Processes: Supports management in developing and preparing process documents for AP, AR, Banking, Fixed Assets, Payroll, Month-End, Credit Card, Revenue Recognition, and Cash Flow; Monitors new vendors and ensures attainment of W9’s or proper contracts; Assists with the evaluation on internal controls and processes and makes recommendations to accounting team; Maintain files, records, and databases as needed
• Annual Tasks: Assists with Year-End 1099s and 1096; Assists with annual audit field work, including preparing schedules and providing supporting documentation
• Financials Statements: Assists managers in rolling over/updating monthly financial packages

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field required
• At least 5 years in a Accountant role preferred
• Experience in managerial accounting, internal business accounting
• MS Excel – Intermediate to Advanced level preferred
• Experience with NetSuite and Shopify is a plus. Business ERP (Netsuite) and usage would be where most work is completed.
• Attentive and pay close attention to complex details
• Can communicate effectively and tactfully with all levels of personnel
• Have the ability to handle changing circumstances and reprioritize when necessary
• Discreet with sensitive information and able to maintain confidentiality, especially with financial data
• Have the ability to work both autonomously and as a team-player
• Have excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills