Position Summary
Under the direction of the General Accounting Manager, responsible for general accounting functions including daily cash application of customer account receivable payments, recording of daily banking transactions, month end closing support, and general ledger support. The Senior Accountant is responsible for the timely, complete and accurate accounting and reporting of their assigned monthly financial close tasks and in accordance with company policies and US GAAP. The person is responsible for performing ad hoc business support from the accounting department, as requested throughout the month.
Essential Tasks
1. Prepares and records asset, liability, revenue, and expenses entries by compiling and analyzing account information.
2. Maintains proper effective internal controls.
3. Maintains and balances subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions; resolving discrepancies.
4. Maintains general ledger by transferring subsidiary accounts and posting reconciling entries.
5. Downloads and prepares monthly Excel spreadsheets for the processing of various third party service provider invoices.
6. Download large volumes of excel data from the system to support various calculations and account reconciliations
7. Assists with month-end, quarter-end and annual closings as assigned.
8. Prepares reconciliations of general ledger accounts as needed.
9. Prepares month-end intercompany account reconciliations.
10. Performs general ledger support as assigned.
11. Calculate and record journal entries for certain accounting areas, including but not limited to areas such as location expense accruals, insurance accruals, prepaid expense accounts, customer and vendor rebate accounting and capital vs operating lease treatment.
12. Experience in or exposure to inventory accounting a plus.
13. Reconciliation of certain accounts monthly between the perpetual or calculated amounts and general ledgers.
14. Research and explain expense variances to prior year and plan or other ad hoc analyses as requested.
15. Being part of the larger finance and controlling organization and embrace best practices.
16. Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
17. Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
Skills
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing self-performance to make improvements or take corrective action.
Accounting and US GAAP: Working knowledge of accounting fundamentals and basic US GAAP rules.
Communicating: Evaluate, act and convey information in timely manner. Decisive, make timely practical, effective decisions.
Time Management: Managing one's own time. Ability to organize and prioritize tasks.
Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are communicating; taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and adjusting actions in relation to others’ actions as well as understanding why they react as they do.
Partnering: Exhibits partnering skills in own organization and across departmental functions in the company, building relationships and working with others to problem solve.
Service orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people and support the organization.
Internal Control awareness: Ability to understand, develop and enforce internal controls, procedures and processes.
Assertive, self-starting: Willingness/ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Attributes
Oral Expression : The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Written Comprehension: The ability to understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Quality: High standards for quality and advanced ability to handle multiple, competing priorities and requests
Qualifications
Education/Professional Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or related field from an accredited university; M.B.A a plus.
Minimum 2-4 years of prior accounting experience to include general ledger and/or inventory or costing support in a well-established corporate environment.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and/or Certified Management Accountant (CMA) a plus.
Retail or distribution company experience a plus.
Computer Skills
Intermediate to advanced level experience with Microsoft Excel, and strong use of other Microsoft products.
Experience with AS400 system a plus.
Travel
Occasional travel as needed, to stores and distribution centers primarily.
Requirements
Education/Professional Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting or related field from an accredited university; M.B.A a plus.
Minimum 2-4 years of prior accounting experience to include general ledger and/or inventory or costing support in a well-established corporate environment.
Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and/or Certified Management Accountant (CMA) a plus.
Retail or distribution company experience a plus.
Computer Skills
Intermediate to advanced level experience with Microsoft Excel, and strong use of other Microsoft products.
Experience with AS400 system a plus.
Travel
Occasional travel as needed, to stores and distribution centers primarily.
*Requisition Number::* 16-0413
*Post Date::* 4/26/2016
*Title::* Senior Accountant
*Job Type::* Full Time
*City::* Las Colinas
*State::* TX