Senior Accountant / Accounting Manager

Outdoor Gear Exchange • Burlington, VT

14d • $55,000 - $80,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Accountant / Accounting Manager position is a full time in-person position with room for occasional work-from-home once established in the position and company. Experience and or education in Accounting is needed as well as being highly organized and detail oriented. All aspects of this position require extreme discretion with regards to company financial and personal employee information. This position is responsible for maintaining the financial records of the company and ensuring that financial transactions are properly recorded. This is accomplished by performing the necessary accounting and reconciliation tasks to record business transactions to the general ledger. As such, you should have a knowledge of accrual accounting. Daily tasks can include making vendor payments, conducting account reconciliations, entering sales data, benefits administration, and any number of similar activities. This position is a great place for an accomplished accountant to grow into an Accounting Manager position or an Accounting Manager to grow into a Controller position over time.

Requirements

• Experience with Quickbooks Desktop and Quickbooks Online.
• Proficiency with Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel and payroll processing.
• Strong time management, analytical, communication and organizational skills.
• Candidate with a bachelor’s degree in accounting a plus, otherwise 3 years’ experience.
• Aptitude in accrual accounting, financial statement review.
• Ability to work productively and be self-directed on projects, meet deadlines, and also be a good team member when working on group projects.
• Experience with benefits administration a plus
• Strong organizational skills and ability to focus to meet deadlines while balancing interruptions.
• Team player with a positive attitude

Responsibilities

• Monthly reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts.
• Pay vendors in accordance with vendor due dates, ensuring that early payment discounts are utilized where appropriate.
• Monitor expenses for items that need to be capitalized in accordance with company fixed asset and prepaid expense policies.
• Continual monitoring of financials statements for anomalies/inaccuracies
• Take ownership in the inventory reconciliation process on ongoing basis
• Ensure that revenue and sales transaction information is recorded into the financial records in a timely and accurate manner.
• Process Payroll bi-weekly
• Some benefits administration
• Tax compliance through Avalara

Benefits

• fun and collaborative work environment in a central downtown Burlington location
• 401K
• Subsidized health insurance
• Access to dental insurance (employee paid)
• Generous PTO
• discounts on gear and countless industry perks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees