Staff Accountant

Bio-Techne • Minneapolis, MN

10d • Onsite

About The Position

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting with 0-2 years of relevant accounting experience (can be internships or part-time jobs) or an Associate's degree in Accounting with 2-4 years of relevant accounting experience or a combination of education and relevant experience providing equivalent knowledge.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Excel (experience with formulas, pivot tables, multi-faceted Excel spreadsheets, etc.)
• Must have a strong numeric aptitude.
• Must be able to work in a fast pace environment, be detailed orientated, and possess good communications and problem solving skills.
• Must be able to work in a fast pace environment, be detailed orientated, and possess good communications and problem solving skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics or UIPath is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the month end close by preparing journal entries and accruals; estimating amount to accrue, defer, reverse or change based upon historical data and knowledge of business
• Reconciles account balances for assigned accounts and prepares supporting documentation
• Calculates royalties and rebates for a set of assigned accounts and prepares supporting documentation for review
• Research discrepancies and issues working with other team members to resolve
• Gathers support for interim, SOX, and year end audit requests
• Perform various Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable functions working cross functionally and independently driving tasks to completion
• Continue to improve internal process and documentation clarity
• Continuously look to increase efficiency through process automation
• Partner with other functions to improve end to end process understanding and communications
• Act as back up for other accounting staff to ensure proper staffing needs are met and to enable achievement of staff department goals

Benefits

• competitive insurance benefits starting on day one: medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, long-term disability, pet, and legal and ID shield.
• 401k plans
• employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Health Saving Account (HSA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Dependent Care FSA
• mentorship
• promotional opportunities
• training and development
• tuition reimbursement
• internship programs
• employee resource groups
• volunteer paid time off
• employee events
• charity drives
• accrued leave policy with paid holidays, paid time off, and paid parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree