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About The Position

Requirements

• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with data and reconciliations are important.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications is required.
• Ability to identify issues, gather the relevant facts, analyze the underlying activity, and reach sound conclusions is required.
• Must be able to exercise judgment within established policies and procedures, raise issues when needed, and follow through to resolution.
• Ability to communicate clearly and professionally, both in writing and verbally, is required.
• Must be able to prepare routine reports and correspondence and work effectively with various levels of staff and management across the organization.
• Will use a computer keyboard, monitor, and mouse regularly.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance preferred.
• Internship experience, public accounting experience, or up to two years of relevant accounting experience is helpful but not required.
• Exposure to month-end close, reconciliations, or manufacturing environments is a plus.
• Experience with pivot tables, lookups, or ERP systems is helpful, but the ability and willingness to learn quickly is just as important.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the preparation of recurring and non-recurring journal entries with appropriate supporting documentation
• Prepare monthly balance sheet reconciliations, investigate reconciling items, and work with the broader team to resolve issues on a timely basis
• Maintain account analyses and supporting schedules for assigned accounts
• Support monthly, quarterly, and year-end close activities and gain exposure to the company’s overall financial reporting process
• Reconcile bank accounts and corporate credit card accounts monthly
• Assist with sales and tax filings and related reconciliations
• Prepare and reconcile intercompany accounts and assist with settlement of intercompany balances
• Support fixed asset accounting, including capital additions, disposals, and depreciation schedules
• Assist with inventory, cost of goods sold, and other manufacturing-related account reconciliations as needed
• Support internal and external audit requests by preparing schedules and maintaining organized supporting documentation
• Partner with other departments to research transaction discrepancies and build an understanding of how operational activity flows through the financial statements
• Look for opportunities to improve accuracy, organization, and efficiency in assigned processes
• Assist with special projects and other ad hoc assignments as needed