Staff Accountant II

About the role

Mary Kay is seeking an accountant to support inventory, COGS, reporting, close, and cross-functional finance. This role involves maintaining, reconciling, and analyzing general ledger account balances, preparing financial statements and reports, and collaborating with various functional areas.

Responsibilities

• Maintains, reconciles, and analyzes moderate to complex general ledger account balances.
• Investigates unusual transactions, finds root issues, and escalates when appropriate.
• Applies accounting and reporting rules, applies government regulations, and records financial transactions in accordance with GAAP.
• Prepares monthly journal entries, variance analysis, and account reconciliations related to sales, cost of sales, accounts receivable or inventory accounts.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and year-end schedules for internal and external audits for accounts and activities assigned.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual financial supply chain, or tax reports accurately and timely.
• Identifies irregularities and inconsistencies in data and performs root cause analysis to effectively address variances with business partners.
• Advises management of reasons for unusual trends, variances, or other pending issues.
• Collaborates with various functional areas to understand transactions and processes and to provide timely and meaningful feedback of performance to management.
• Utilizes Microsoft Excel, Tableau, or other software to provide customers with visual information (charts, tables) needed to highlight results and issues.
• Supports business partners in making informed decisions by performing ad hoc analysis as needed.
• Aids in report testing or with testing the financial aspects of ERP system upgrades, modifications, and implementations for the area.
• Independently performs research and analysis projects as independently identified or as requested by Management.
• Continuously assesses internal processes and implements changes that enable greater process efficiency or enhanced reporting.

Requirements

• Experience: 3+ years of accounting required; supply chain finance, cost accounting, or inventory accounting preferred.
• Education: Bachelor/University Degree in Accounting required; CPA or CPA eligibility preferred.
• An understanding of GAAP and internal controls, the preparation of journal entries, the accounting treatment of manufacturing accounting transactions, and how to generate reports.
• Basic to intermediate understanding of integrated ERP systems and the relationship of Finance data and processes to other areas in the Company.
• Ability to understand the implications of system errors on unit costs or financial statements.

Technology

• Utilizes digital tools to perform tasks at a high level of productivity.
• Experience with Tableau, PeopleSoft Financials, and JD Edwards is highly beneficial.
• Strong knowledge of general ledger, query, and reporting.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, especially advanced Excel, is beneficial.

Influence

• Buils and maintains trusting relationships by actively listening to stakeholders and backing up opinions with facts, knowledge, and logic.
• Good verbal and written communication skills to interface with personnel at all levels both in the U.S. and internationally and with external auditors to provide support and for issue resolution.
• Storytelling with data: Organizes and structures presentations or communications in a way that is easily understandable to the audience.
• Strong organizational and time management skills to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Must be able to exercise extreme discretion in dealing with confidential information including financial and audit information.