Accountant

About the Role

Maintains accounting records and prepares financial statements and analysis for Market America, Inc. and/or affiliated entities.

Responsibilities

• Prepares, examines, and analyzes accounting records, monthly financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
• Maintains and reconciles all assigned general ledger accounts.
• Monitors and generates reports to management of cash balances for multiple affiliated entities.
• Prepares journal entries and maintains and reconciles various general ledger accounts to ensure accurate monthly processes.
• Analyzes business operations, trends, costs and revenues to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
• Completes assigned tasks in the monthly close process.
• Examines processes used to generate the journal entries that create the monthly financial statements, and confirms accuracy, completeness and relevancy of the elements used.
• Develops, maintains and analyzes budgets, and prepares periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs, for both operating costs and capital expenditures.
• Documents processes and desktop procedures used in performing assigned responsibilities.
• Establishes, modifies, documents, and coordinates implementation of accounting and accounting control procedures.
• Provides work leadership and direction to other accountants and clerical workers.
• Performs advanced and specialized accounting assignments involving complex and confidential data.
• Complies with company policies and procedures.
• Performs other duties as needed or requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting; minor in computer information systems.
• Two (2) to four (4) years of experience in finance and accounting or a combination of equivalent experience, education, and training.

Skills

• Proficient use of MS Office programs: Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted strategic projects in conjunction with day-to-day tactical activities.
• Ability to get along and work with diverse personalities; tactful, mature, flexible.
• Prioritizes and models good communication skills; follow-up, timely responses, proactive and positive in approach.
• Above moderate to high levels in reading comprehension, writing, and speaking in English; active listening; attention to detail; critical thinking; mathematics, creative problem solving; complex problem solving; and judgment.
• Above moderate levels of Spanish speaking, writing, and reading comprehension (required).

Travel

Remote work with business approval. Annual conference participation and related travel.

Physical Requirements and Work Environment

• Normal office environment with little exposure to dust and weather conditions prevalent at the time (i.e., cold/hot/humid).
• Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, cameras, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
• Regularly required to talk, walk, stand, bend, twist, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• Raise and lower an object from one level to another, less than twenty (20) pounds.
• Visual acuity must be a minimum of 20/40 (corrected) and normal hand/eye coordination.
• Normal or corrected hearing.
• Must be able to perform in an office environment where ninety (90) percent of work is performed sitting.
• Occasional long or irregular hours of work.