Senior Accountant

Petco•Natick, MA

21d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for protecting Petco’s accounting data, interacting professionally with contacts, creating complex documents and reports using software, prioritizing and accomplishing multiple tasks, analyzing data, performing accounting duties and control activities, researching and analyzing data sets, preparing month-end entries, reconciliations, budgets, forms, reports, and schedules, communicating with field partners, corporate support staff, and senior management, and performing business process improvement including root cause analysis and recommendation development.

Requirements

4-year degree in Accounting/Finance or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
A solid understanding of accounting principles equivalent to a college level Intermediate Accounting course.
Possess a current CPA certification.
Minimum 3-5 years of accounting experience, including progressively increasing areas of responsibility in 2 or more accounting functional areas.
Verbally communicate effectively and in writing with department associates, corporate support staff and senior management regarding accounting information.
Make recommendations on the most profitable and legally compliant approach to accounting issues.
A strong working knowledge of accounting operations related to a specific or multiple functional areas of accounting.
Act as an accounting liaison/business partner to a non-accounting business group.
Performance of detailed analytics over both balance sheet and Profit & Loss statements at the account level.
Manage multiple projects at one time.
Advanced knowledge of all Microsoft Office Suite applications (e.g. Excel, Word, and Access) and 10-key by touch.
Must be accurate, detail oriented, proficient with personal computer based programs, and trainable on company specific systems.

Nice To Haves

Previous working experience with Oracle financial software.
Retail experience is strongly preferred.
Previous employment for or work with a Big 4 company.
Coached or mentored junior accounting partners.

Responsibilities

Protect Petco’s accounting data received from internal and external sources.
Interact professionally and effectively through verbal and written communication with all professional contacts with emphasis on company interests.
Efficiently create complex documents and/or reports using spreadsheet, database, and accounting software in a timely fashion.
Independently prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes.
Analyze moderately to highly complex data to determine the appropriate course of action.
Perform accounting duties and control activities to ensure financial results are reported without error.
Research and analyze selective data sets and/or accounts pertaining to the duties of the specific functional area of accounting being performed.
Prepare month-end journal entries, reconciliations, budgets, forms, reports, and schedules relating to the accounts in the specific area of focus.
Effectively communicate with field partners, corporate support staff, and senior management, ensuring issues related to accounting are communicated to the appropriate impacted partners for action.
Perform business process improvement including root cause analysis, recommendation development, and able to overcome roadblocks to functional success.