Accountant

Job Description

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY: The Accountant at S&S Cycle supports the Accounting/Finance team by assisting with daily accounting tasks such as journal entries, account reconciliations, invoice processing, and data entry. This role plays a key part in ensuring the accuracy of financial records and contributes to payroll, month-end and year-end closing activities. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, dependable, and eager to grow within a dynamic manufacturing environment. This position offers an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a collaborative team setting while learning the full scope of accounting operations at S&S Cycle.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Thoroughly understand and adhere to accounting departmental goals, objectives, and strategy

• Establish and maintain credibility throughout the organization as an effective developer of solutions

• Present and maintain positive morale amongst employees

• Loading and processing of invoices in Medius (paperless A/P system) and entering manually in ERP system

• Review invoices, credit memos, check requests, and expense reports for proper approval and coding

• Resolve any issues/problems with invoices

• Prepare A/P check proposal weekly for Director of Finance and/or Controller

• Process weekly check run, including ACH and wire payments

• Prepare ‘Positive Pay’ report and load in bank website

• Maintain vendor files for all manual invoices and filing of daily purchase order receipts

• Follow-up on Open PO Receipts and report for missing invoices and credits

• Reconcile vendor statements

• Provide accurate, timely responses to vendor inquires, ensuring a good working relationship

• Request W9’s for vendors for 1099 reporting

• Prepare and maintain daily/monthly work instructions/procedures

• Continually analyze processes for possible improvements or issues, proactively identifying and proposing solutions

• Responsible for the integrity of the general ledger

• Coordinates the completion of the balance sheet of the account analysis

• Prepares, verifies, and controls the entering of journal entries to the journal ledger

• Evaluates subsidiary journal entries for obvious errors and omissions and enters the corrected data to the general ledger; performs all tasks associated either the general ledger, i.e., monthly journal entries, executes monthly closing entries, executes moth-end general ledger

• Assists in reviewing and updating monthly closing procedures

• Prepares insurance reporting schedules; reconciles asset values reported to various balance sheet accounts

• Reconciles daily cash flow statements and reconciles the asset values reported to various balance sheet accounts

• Reconciles daily cash flow statements and reconciles to monthly bank statements; provides weekly audit of checks held

• Reconciles payroll and cash disbursements accounts

• Reviews aging accounts payable for problems

• Assist with accounts receivable collection problems and procedures

• Assist with other projects and directives as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field preferred

• 2-4 years of experience in related accounting areas, preferably in a manufacturing environment

• Basic understanding of GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles)

• Experience working with accounting software or ERP system is a plus (Epicor)

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, and Excel, and Google Suite

• Excellent organizational and time management skills

• Able to relate to people at all levels of the organization in a positive fashion

• Willingness to to learn and take on new challenges

• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 

• Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy

WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Work is performed in an office environment with occasional exposure to production environment

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands, reach with hands and a