Accountant
Description
Job Summary:
The Accountant role has high visibility into the Finance function and serves as a critical role within the team to helps manage the month-end close process and day-to-day accounting activities, as well as assisting with quarterly forecasting and various ad-hoc requests. This position maintains a wide variety of responsibilities including inventory, parts costing/pricing, part usage, fleet accounting (ASC842), balance sheet reconciliations, and other ad hoc responsibilities. This opportunity can be a hybrid role.
Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct monthly balance sheet reconciliations
- Serve as the main point of contact for certain areas within the accounting function, such as, inventory costing, fleet, part usage, Concur/Amex.
- Produce error-free accounting reports and present their results
- Analyze financial information and summarize financial status
- Spot errors and suggest ways to improve process efficiency
- Review and recommend modifications to accounting systems and procedures
- Liaise with the Company’s external auditors to facilitate an efficient annual audit
- Support the month-end and year-end close process
- Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls
- Ensure compliance with GAAP principles
- Business acumen used to conduct forecasts for fleet, part usage, balance sheet, etc.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- In-depth understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and accounting software, preferably including NetSuite
- Advanced MS Excel skills
- Acute attention to detail
- Strong personal computer and business solutions software skills
- Strong interpersonal skills for interacting with the internal accounting team, operations and upper management
- Good communication skills
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Solid presentation skills for educating internal clients on accounting principles
- Good planning and organizational skills to balance and prioritize work
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
- This is largely a sedentary role, requiring use of typical office equipment such as a computer, laptop and cell phone.
- Hybrid role - This job operates in a professional office environment
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- Three to Five years of broad and proven accounting experience
- Standard Microsoft applications, including Windows, Outlook, Excel, and Word preferred.
- NetSuite experience preferred.