Staff Accountant

Position: Staff Accountant

Location: Total Vision Support Center - 27271 Las Ramblas, Mission Viejo, CA 92691, USA

Duration: Full-time, and Direct Hire

Pay: $28.00 - $31.00 Hourly

General Summary  

Performs complex professional accounting work related to recording and reporting financial transactions. Prepares financial statements, other regulatory filings, and related analyses.

Essential Functions 

• Ensures the timely and accurate posting of balance sheet account reconciliations and cash reconciliations
• Prepares work papers, financial statements, and various reports for internal accounting and auditin
• Research and analyzes fluctuations in current financial results compared with prior-year, prior-month, and budgeted amount
• Assists with internal and external audits to ensure compliance with financial reporting requirements
• Assists business partners with budget activity, proper expenditure coding, document preparation, and other accounting-related activitie
• Recommends changes in accounting processes and procedure
• Reviews and approves work completed by accounts payable specialists to ensure accurate expense allocation and appropriate approvals

Responsibilities/Duties:

• Critical hands-on support for month-end accounting close process including the proper posting of various recurring entries.
• Timely record company credit card account activities and perform reconciliations.
• Support accounts payable staff with accounting classification and reconciliation, review and post accounts payable transactions.
• Assist the Controller in timely completion of tax filings including personal property, sales tax, 1099 forms and other local licenses and permits.
• Responsible for creating, analyzing, and maintaining critical monthly balance sheet reconciliations including deferred rent, facility and equipment lease, and other designated accounts.
• Excel skills include vlookup, sumif, index, complex pivot tables and more.
• Assist with month-end financial analysis of income statement and balance sheet trends to support monthly reporting and variance analysis to budget as well as prior year.
• Play a support role in the expected annual accounting audit by interfacing with auditors and preparing required schedules.
• Assist with other related ad hoc responsibilities and tasks as assigned by department leadership.
• Performing research and analysis as required.
• Ensuring compliance with financial guidelines, company policies, and relevant legal regulations.
• Evaluate Electronic Practice Management (EPM) systems and be able to learn multiple systems concurrently in order to support proper GAAP based collection and presentation of transactional information.
• All other duties as assigned.

Job Specification 

Typically has the following skills or abilities: 

• Ensures the timely and accurate posting of balance sheet account reconciliations and cash reconciliations.
• Prepares work papers, financial statements, and various reports for internal accounting and auditing.
• Research and analyzes fluctuations in current financial results compared with prior-year, prior-month, and budgeted amounts.
• Assists with internal and external audits to ensure compliance with financial reporting requirements.
• Assists business partners with budget activity, proper expenditure coding, document preparation, and other accounting-related activities.
• Recommends changes in accounting processes and procedures
• Reviews and approves work completed by accounts payable specialists to ensure accurate expense allocation and appropriate approvals

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field. An Associate’s degree in Accounting may be considered with the right experience.
• 2+ years of experience using accounting and auditing principles and practices, including GAAP and statutory accounting
• 2+ years of cash and bank account reconciliation experience, preferably performed daily
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in spreadsheet applications
• Clean credit history, as reported by a credit report
• Experience assisting with the preparation, maintenance, and revision of accounting process narratives, standard operating procedures, and policy memorandums in response to process or system changes.
• Takes direction and guidance from supervisors and managers to complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision.
• Five days per week in an onsite work environment, with occasional overtime required during month-end close to meeting the seven-day close deadline.

Total Vision is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable state or federal civil rights laws.