Staff Accountant

Overview

Summary of Position: Reporting to the Controller, the Staff Accountant provides financial, administrative, and clerical support by ensuring transactions are recorded in a timely manner, reports are updated and distributed to relevant managers, payment and invoice data are reviewed, and manufacturing variances and accounting are reviewed. The staff accountant will ensure established policies and procedures are followed in an efficient, timely, and accurate manner.

• Maintain accounting ledgers by verifying and posting account transactions
• Prepare and enter journal entries
• Generate and distribute accurate invoices to customers daily
• Post payments daily
• Review customer accounts for discrepancies and reconcile differences
• Monitor customer accounts for timely payment and follow up on past-due invoices
• Implement effective collection strategies to reduce aged receivables
• Prepare and analyze reports for management review, including days sales outstanding (DSO) and working capital
• Prepare monthly reconciliations and submit additional schedules as required for month or quarter-end
• Prepare additional control documentation and respond to audit requests
• Other duties assigned

Education and/or

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree (Accounting or business degree) with 0-2 years minimum related experience or Associate’s degree (Accounting or business degree) with 2-4 years minimum related experience
• Manufacturing business knowledge preferred
• Experience with Oracle EBS, Infor Syteline, or similar ERP software
• Ability to drive results from current and prior positions

The position requires that the employee regularly sit and use their hands to handle or feel. The employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, and kneel. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds without assistance, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds with assistance.

Vision requirements include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Employees should be able to adapt to a traditional business environment.

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.