Accountant - Entry Level

BASIC FUNCTIONS

• Supporting our Accounting, Finance, and Business Strategy departments by completing daily tasks to ensure the functionality and efficiency of the departments while documenting processes and procedures performed.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Daily bank transactions recording for cash flow reporting and accuracy.
• Making monthly bank reconciliations and cash postings to the general ledger and monitoring cash balances to ensure sufficiency in meeting daily cash needs for expenses.
• Maintaining corporate credit card balances to ensure accuracy and prevent fraud; posting transactions to the GL and reconciling the transactions.
• Aiding Accounts Receivable in issuing invoices, monitoring and updating A/R and collections.
• Maintaining a six-week forecast of intercompany loans and ensuring the balance stays within required thresholds.
• Working with ERP vendors to maintain system performance and enhancements.
• Communicating month-end requirements, preparing reports, and maintaining them for audit purposes.
• Aiding in processing ACH, check, and wire payments for third-party and intercompany obligations.
• Maintaining vendor lists in ERP and tracking spending by vendor monthly.
• Aiding in the preparation and submission of required financial reports (monthly, quarterly, annual).
• Maintaining inventory files, analyzing purchase and sales transactions, and posting to the general ledger monthly.
• Maintaining invoicing and ERP applications to ensure inventory matches in both.
• Participating in annual physical inventory in North Carolina each year.
• Maintaining ERP modules every month to ensure transactions are processed to the correct period.
• Aiding in the monthly, quarterly, and annual closings.
• Aiding in the preparation of financial statements.
• Analyzing and maintaining GL account transactions.
• Reconciling financial discrepancies by reviewing and analyzing account postings.
• Aiding in the processing of balance sheets, income statements, and other statements according to legal and company finance and accounting guidelines.
• Aiding in the preparation and review of journal entries for accuracy and accounting classifications.
• Maintaining fixed asset files and recording fixed assets and depreciation in the ERP.
• Aiding in the preparation and submission of tax forms.
• Aiding in the process of price lists and tariff tracking.
• Aiding in internal and external audits.
• Aiding in the budget process and required reporting to management and corporate HQ (Accounting and Business Strategy).
• Managing damaged parts claims (Accounting and Business Strategy).
• Creating and maintaining a scrap parts list through plant communication and ERP (Business Strategy).
• Inputting orders, forecasts, and slow stock to HQ (Business Strategy).
• Calculating interest rates, transportation fees, and agent commissions (Business Strategy).
• Maintaining financial security following internal controls and ensuring compliance with federal, state, and company policies, regulations, and laws.
• Performing duties as deemed necessary by direct supervisor and senior management including but not limited to Accounting and Business Strategy support.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or equivalent.
• Experience: Knowledge of general bookkeeping, audits, and basic accounting procedures including managing daily financial transactions, including expenses, payroll, sales revenues, intercompany transactions and reconciliations, banking and cash.
• Skills/Aptitude:
• Understanding basic bookkeeping and accounting principles (GAAP, J-SOX).
• Proven ability to calculate, post, and manage accounting figures and financial records.
• Data entry skills along with analytical thinking.
• Hands-on experience and proficiency with MS Office, MS Excel, and ERP software.
• A high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• A task-oriented approach with a strong sense of priority and ability to manage multiple tasks.
• The ability to meet tight deadlines.
• An ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a challenging environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A high level of integrity and confidentiality.
• The ability to deliver and receive positive and negative feedback in a professional manner.
• The accountability for individual goals as well as the ability to work in a team environment.
• The embrace of a changing business environment.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Office environment.
• Hybrid work schedule. (Full-time office attendance may be required during training period)
• Overtime may be required to meet program/project deadlines.
• Physically able to participate in presentations and meetings.
• Domestic and international travel is required.