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Sr. Accountant

Eurofins Consumer Product Testing · Norwood, MA · 4 wk ago
On-siteAccountingFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The job description includes paragraphs about company overview and job description. We need to use

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections when posting has real specific content. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Intro about Eurofins (company description). Could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is a heading for description of role. The posting includes "Job Description The Senior Accountant is responsible for supporting and overseeing key accounting operations..." That's about role. So we can put that under

About the role

with

containing that description. - Responsibilities: The bullet list under "Sr. Accountant Duties Include but are not Limited to the Following:" includes sections: Accounts Payable & Vendor Management, Customer Billing & Accounts Receivable, Cash Application & AR Management. Those are duties. So we can put under

Responsibilities

a
  • each duty bullet? The posting includes many bullet points under each subheading. We need to preserve all substantive info. So we can create list items for each bullet point. Could also group subheadings? But we only allowed
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. We can include subheadings as plain text inside
    • maybe? But we cannot add extra headings besides the allowed ones. Could we include inside
    • ? Probably okay. We'll just list each duty as
    • . We'll need to capture all bullet points. Let's extract bullet points: Under Accounts Payable & Vendor Management: - Manage and review AP invoices through the Coupa Accounts Payable system, ensuring invoices are processed accurately and timely. - Create purchase requisitions and obtain appropriate Purchase Order (PO) numbers prior to invoice processing. - Review invoices for proper supporting documentation, approvals, GL account coding, department/cost center coding, and PO information. - Work closely with the NSC Accounts Payable team to ensure invoices are submitted, approved, and processed within required payment timelines. - Research and resolve invoice discrepancies, coding issues, PO mismatches, and other AP-related exceptions. - Coordinate the creation and maintenance of new vendors in Coupa, ensuring required vendor information and documentation are complete. Customer Billing & Accounts Receivable: - Review customer billing requirements and prepare customer invoices as needed. - Perform billing calculations and ensure invoices contain accurate pricing, customer information, accounting codes, and other required billing details. - Review supporting documentation to ensure invoices are complete and accurate before submission to customers. - Create and maintain new customer accounts and coordinate required customer onboarding documentation. - Provide customers with company W-9 forms and approved banking/remittance information when required for customer vendor setup and payment processing. - Work closely with the AR Billing Specialist to resolve billing issues and ensure invoices are issued accurately and timely. Cash Application & AR Management: - Apply daily customer payments to open accounts receivable invoices and ensure payments are posted accurately. - Review AR aging and unapplied cash reports regularly and investigate outstanding or unidentified balances. - Research unapplied and misapplied payments and coordinate corrections to ensure customer accounts are properly stated. - Work proactively to reduce aged receivable balances and unapplied cash. - Assist the AR Collection Specialist with customer invoice questions, collection activities, payment research, and account reconciliation. - Investigate payments that may have been sent to another Eurofins laboratory or bank account and coordinate intercompany transfers or other corrective actions to ensure funds are applied to the appropriate customer account. - Assist in resolving customer disputes and discrepancies that may delay collection of outstanding balances. Now Qualifications: The posting includes "Qualifications Basic Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. Basic Minimum Qualifications: Minimum of 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience, preferably including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, billing, and general accounting. Experience with Coupa or similar procurement/AP systems preferred. Strong Microsoft Excel skills and ability to analyze accounting data and reconcile. Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly in researching billing, payment, and account discrepancies. Ability to work effectively with customers, internal departments, centralized accounting teams, and other Eurofins entities. Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship." We can put under

      Qualifications

      a
      • each bullet? The text is sentences; we could split into list items for each qualification. Let's list: - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. - Minimum of 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience, preferably including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, billing, and general accounting. - Experience with Coupa or similar procurement/AP systems preferred. - Strong Microsoft Excel skills and ability to analyze accounting data and reconcile. - Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, particularly in researching billing, payment, and account discrepancies. - Ability to work effectively with customers, internal departments, centralized accounting teams, and other Eurofins entities. - Authorization to work in the United States indefinitely without restriction or sponsorship. Skills: The posting didn't have a separate Skills section; but we could extract skills from qualifications? However we should not create a Skills section unless posting actually states them. The posting does not have a distinct "Skills" heading; but we could treat some qualifications as skills. However instruction: "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it". There's no explicit Skills section, but we could still include Skills if we infer from qualifications? Might be considered inventing. Safer to omit Skills section. Benefits: The posting includes "Additional Information Position is full-time working Monday - Friday 09:00am - 5:00 pm, and additional hours as needed. Candidates currently living within a commutable distance to Norwood, MA are encouraged to apply. Excellent full-time benefits including: Comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision optionsLife and disability insurance401(k) with company matchPaid vacation and holidays". So we have benefits list. Also schedule info: "Position is full-time working Monday - Friday 09:00am - 5:00 pm, and additional hours as needed." That's schedule. Pay: not mentioned. So we should include Benefits and Schedule sections. Not Pay. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits, Schedule. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. We need to remove boilerplate: EEO statement at end: "Eurofins USA Consumer Product Testing is a Disabled and Veteran Equal Employment Opportunity employer." Remove. Also remove "Additional Information" heading? We'll incorporate into Benefits and Schedule. Now craft HTML. We'll output:

        About the role

        ... (company overview + job description)

        But we need to preserve all substantive information. The company overview paragraph is long; we should include it as part of About the role? The About the role section should describe the role, not the company overview. However we could include company overview as part of About the role? Might be okay but better to separate? There's no "About the company" heading allowed. Could we put company overview in About the role? The instruction: "use

        for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)". So About the role is expected to contain description of the role. The company overview is not about the role but about the company. However we must preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot omit company overview. Where to put it? Could we put it in a

        before any headings? The instruction says output ONLY the HTML fragment; we can include

        elements not under headings? It didn't forbid that. It says use

        for section headings,
        • for any list,

          for prose. So we can have a leading

          for company overview, then headings for sections. That seems acceptable. Thus: start with

          containing the Eurofins overview paragraph(s). Then

          About the role

          with

          containing the job description paragraph (starting with "The Senior Accountant is responsible..."). Then Responsibilities

            with all duty bullets. Then Qualifications
              with qualification bullets. Then Benefits
                with benefits list. Then Schedule

                with schedule sentence. We must not include Pay section. Now extract benefits list: "Excellent full-time benefits including: Comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision optionsLife and disability insurance401(k) with company matchPaid vacation and holidays". There's missing punctuation; we need to split into items: Comprehensive medical coverage, dental, and vision options; Life and disability insurance; 401(k) with company match; Paid vacation and holidays. We'll make each as

              • . Schedule: "Position is full-time working Monday - Friday 09:00am - 5:00 pm, and additional hours as needed." We'll put that in

                . Now ensure we removed boilerplate: EEO line removed. Also "Candidates currently living within a commutable distance to Norwood, MA are encouraged to apply." That's not a benefit or schedule; it's location preference. Should we keep it? It's substantive info about location. Where to put? Could be part of About the role? Or maybe we can add a

                under About the role? But we already used About the role for role description. Could add another

                after About the role? Might be okay to include as a separate

                before Benefits? The instruction didn't forbid extra

                elements. We'll include it as a

                after About the role maybe under a heading? There's no heading for Location. Could we add it to Benefits? Not appropriate. Could add to Schedule? Not appropriate. Could add to About the role as extra sentence? Might be okay to append to About the role paragraph. But the About the role paragraph currently is just the role description; we could add location sentence there. However that mixes role description with location. Might be okay but better to keep separate

                after About the role before Responsibilities. The instruction didn't say we cannot have extra

                elements; just that we must use

                for prose. So we can have a

                for location note. Thus flow:

                Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company... (the long overview)

                About the role

                The Senior Accountant is responsible for supporting and overseeing key accounting operations, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, customer billing, cash application, vendor and customer setup, and related accounting activities. This position works closely with internal accounting teams, business operations, customers, and other Eurofins entities to ensure transactions are processed accurately, timely, and in accordance with company policies. The Senior Accountant also provides day-to-day supervision and guidance to two Staff Accountants supporting AR billing and collections and plays an important role in maintaining accurate customer balances, resolving payment issues, and improving the overall efficiency of accounting processes.

                Candidates currently living within a commutable distance to Norwood, MA are encouraged to apply.

                Responsibilities

                • Manage and review AP invoices through the Coupa Accounts Payable system, ensuring invoices are processed accurately and timely.
                • Create purchase requisitions and obtain appropriate Purchase Order (PO) numbers prior to invoice processing.
                • Review invoices for proper supporting documentation, approvals, GL account coding, department/cost center coding, and PO information.
                • Work closely with the NSC Accounts Payable team to ensure invoices are submitted, approved, and processed within required payment timelines.
                • Research and resolve invoice discrepancies, coding issues, PO mismatches, and

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