Senior Accountant

About This Role

This position will be responsible for ensuring the accurate presentation of financial records by providing accounting support and preparing some complex journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial analysis. This team member will work directly with varying levels of management and business partners throughout the organization through various forms of communication when accomplishing these tasks. In addition, this team member will create/update accounting policies, procedures, and memos.

What You’ll Do

• Perform monthly close responsibilities (journal entries, variance analysis, account reconciliations and management inquiries) associated with the assigned functional areas within Ace
• Identify, propose, and implement process improvements/accounting changes to simplify or streamline the process and ensure accuracy in the accounting
• Prepare higher level, more complex ad-hoc reports and analysis as assigned by management
• Prepare analysis, interpret the results, present findings and recommendations to management, and assist management in implementing any business or process changes
• Assist business partners with more complex issues or functional areas within Ace requiring additional attention, determine the root cause of issues identified, propose process improvements, and assist with the implementation of the process improvements
• Lead or assist on projects designed to improve accounting efficiency or drive higher quality deliverables, manage the resources provided to ensure that the project goals are met on a timely basis, and create a final deliverable outlining the recommendations for improvement, barriers to implementation, and consideration of the implementation risks

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 5+ years of work experience in a financial/accounting capacity
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and data mining skills
• Strong understanding of accounting principles and processes
• Intermediate project management skills
• Ability to work with some supervision
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to successfully interact with management throughout the organization
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint at an advanced level

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Compensation Details:

$76300 - $90000 per year

Why should you join our team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don’t often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

In addition to providing our employees a great culture, Ace also offers competitive benefits
* that address life’s necessities and perks, many of which expand and improve year after year, including:

• Incentive opportunities, based on role/grade level (rapid company growth over the past 5 years resulted in incentives being paid out at an average of 122% of your target opportunity!)
• Generous 401(k) retirement savings plan with a fully vested matching contribution the first year in addition to quarterly contributions and annual discretionary contribution (once eligibility requirements have been met). Over the past 5 years, company contributions (matching, quarterly & discretionary) for fully eligible employees have averaged 10.4% of total eligible compensation.
• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision and disability – up to 26 weeks short-term disability and long-term disability) & life insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 21 days of vacation immediately available (prorated in the first year) and up to 6 paid holidays depending on the month of hire
• Your career at Ace is more than just a job. It’s a chance to be part of something meaningful. We help locally-owned businesses thrive and make an impact in their communities – and we support our employees in doing the same by offering an annual Ace Cares Week, 20 hours off work per year to volunteer at an organization of your choice, opportunities to help Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals and the Ace Helpful Fund through the Ace Foundation
• Ace invests…