Accounting - Staff Accountant

Safari Land•Pittsburgh, PA

36d

About The Position

Position Summary: Support of the broad accounting function including administrating vendor and customer setups, invoicing and payments. Support of the general ledger accounting processes and month end closing and reporting activities. Assists in developing prioritization of daily tasks, communicating internally and externally to achieve accounting milestones. Generates and maintains reporting to track progress and analyze results.

Requirements

Ability to prioritize and track multiple simultaneous tasks
High attention to detail
Dependable and strong sense of integrity
Must have strong analytical skills.
Must have strong Excel skills and comfort with lookups and pivot tables, etc.
Must have familiarity with project-based accounting and project based ERPs.
Must have familiarity with the accounts receivable lifecycle including sales orders, credit approvals, invoicing, collections, and payment processing.
Must have familiarity with IT infrastructures and software maintenance.
Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
Minimum of 4 years of accounting or other related field experience with solid understanding of the accounts receivable and accounts payable processes, general ledger accounting experience is a plus

Nice To Haves

Experience working in engineering, manufacturing or related field preferred

Responsibilities

Support of the accounting function including maintenance of general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and project accounting; ensures accuracy and timeliness.
Support of the monthly close of financial records and posting of month end information; prepares and ensures accuracy of financial statements and analysis, including bank reconciliation, journal entries, and reports.
Support of the accounts receivable and accounts payable processes. This includes processing, reviewing, and entering incoming sales orders in the ERP; generating and submitting invoices to customers for payment; preparing deposits and posting cash receipts; processing and entering vendor invoices in support of the three-way match system; processing timely and accurate vendor payments; maintaining daily cash registers and updating and submitting monthly reports on various ongoing projects for all divisions.
Maintains ERP project data. This includes project entry and maintenance of supporting data, customer contracts, project purchase orders to vendors, project cost documents and transfer pricing agreement and calculation documents. This also includes tracking progress of projects to budgeted costs and margins and performing revenue recognition and reconciliation to system for point in time and overtime contracts.
Support of the purchasing database. This includes database infrastructure; purchase order creation and approvals; purchase order ERP entry; purchase order life maintenance within the database and the ERP.
Provides accounting assistance to project managers and operations staff; responds to financial questions/concerns to meet business needs.
Acts as a liaison between the company, government, and external accountants to meet information needs and to ensure that proper information is maintained for historical purposes.
Trains and evaluates associates to enhance their performance, development, and work product.
Prepares and recommends operating and personnel budgets for approval. Monitors spending for adherence to budget, recommends variances as necessary.
Ensure key metrics are gathered and reported.
Support of the monitoring of customer account details for non-payments, delayed payments, and other irregularities, and actively collecting past due accounts as needed.
Support of payroll and expense reconciliation between the corporate reports and entry into ERP. Support and oversight of the monthly sales and use tax reporting. Provide management with ad-hoc reports when requested.