Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant

Join our team as a Staff Accountant, where you will play a crucial role in maintaining the accuracy and integrity of our financial records. This position offers a significant opportunity for growth, with the potential to advance to a controller role within two years. You will be responsible for a wide range of accounting tasks, from general ledger management to financial reporting, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and corporate policies.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post journal entries with appropriate supporting documentation.
• Perform monthly balance sheet account reconciliations and resolve reconciling items timely.
• Maintain accurate general ledger records and account analysis schedules.
• Assist with month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• Prepare accruals and evaluate expense recognition in accordance with accounting policies.
• Analyze financial transactions and investigate unusual account fluctuations.
• Support preparation of monthly financial statements and management reporting packages.
• Assist with internal and external audit requests by gathering supporting documentation and explanations.
• Ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies, procedures, and internal control requirements.
• Review, validate, and process vendor invoices accurately and timely.
• Perform two-way and three-way matching of purchase orders, receiving documents, and invoices.
• Verify proper general ledger coding, cost center allocation, and approval authorization.
• Monitor invoice workflow queues and follow up on pending approvals.
• Investigate and resolve invoice discrepancies involving pricing, quantities, receipts, and vendor inquiries.
• Maintain vendor master records and supporting documentation in accordance with company procedures.
• Perform vendor statement reconciliations and resolve outstanding items.
• Prepare and review accounts payable aging reports.
• Support payment processing activities including ACH, wire, and check payment preparation.
• Maintain accounts payable files and supporting records for audit and compliance purposes.
• Ensure compliance with delegation of authority requirements and segregation of duties controls.
• Reconcile accounts payable subledger to the general ledger.
• Perform monthly bank account reconciliations as assigned.
• Reconcile prepaid expenses, accrued liabilities, fixed assets, intercompany balances, and other balance sheet accounts.
• Research and resolve reconciliation variances and outstanding items.
• Maintain adequate documentation supporting account balances.
• Assist with implementation, documentation, and execution of SOX controls and accounting procedures.
• Assist with fixed asset additions, transfers, disposals, and depreciation reporting.
• Support inventory reconciliations and inventory-related accounting activities.
• Participate in physical inventory counts and cycle count reviews as required.
• Assist with cost accounting and inventory valuation analysis as needed.
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc financial reports for management.
• Support budget, forecast, and variance analysis activities.
• Analyze spending trends and vendor-related expenditures.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and automation.
• Assist with KPI reporting and departmental performance analysis.
• Ensure adherence to company policies, accounting standards, and internal controls.
• Support SOX compliance documentation and testing activities.
• Maintain organized accounting records in accordance with document retention requirements.
• Recommend improvements to accounting processes, controls, and workflows.
• Participate in ERP, accounting system, and finance process improvement initiatives.

Essential Skills

• Prior experience in accounting, controlling, or site level finance roles.
• Knowledge of US GAAP and financial close processes, account reconciliations, financial reporting, and internal control.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Sage, QAD, Oracle, or equivalent.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• High attention to detail with strong documentation and organizational skills.
• Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable in fast-changing integration environments.
• High ethical standards and commitment to controls, compliance, and data integrity.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience in controls implementation, documentation, or audit support.

Work Environment

This position is fully onsite, with working hours from Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Germantown, WI.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60000.00 - $75000.00/yr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Vacation - 2-3 weeks Optek is on their own benefits but they will be changing to crane's benefits.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Aug 31, 2026.