Senior Accountant, e-Commerce (Contract)

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Senior Accountant E-Commerce Accounting

Inventory COGS Sales Cash Application SAP & System Integrations

Position Summary
The consultant will support full-cycle accounting for the online store from customer orders and inventory movement through revenue cost of goods sold accounts receivable cash application refunds and financial reporting. This role will partner with Accounting Operations E-commerce Supply Chain and IT to resolve reconciliation and system-integration issues involving e-commerce order management inventory payment and SAP platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Own full-cycle accounting for online store activity including inventory sales cost of goods sold accounts receivable cash refunds credits and related balance sheet accounts.

Perform monthly and quarterly close activities including journal entries account reconciliations variance analysis and review of transaction completeness and accuracy.

Reconcile inventory subledger activity to SAP including receipts transfers adjustments returns write-offs and inventory reserves where applicable.

Review and reconcile cost of goods sold to product sales and inventory movement investigating unusual margins timing differences and data issues.

Support the complete order-to-cash cycle including sales orders fulfillment billing revenue recognition customer receivables refunds credits and cash application.

Reconcile payment processor and bank activity to customer orders accounts receivable and SAP postings; research unmatched or failed transactions.

Partner with Operations E-commerce Supply Chain IT and Finance teams to understand transaction flows across multiple systems and ensure accurate accounting in SAP.

Investigate integration issues between sales order management inventory/warehouse payment and SAP systems and determine the accounting impact of incomplete duplicated delayed or incorrect transactions.

Participate in system implementations integration changes user acceptance testing and validation of automated accounting entries and interfaces.

Develop and maintain reconciliation tools and controls to confirm that data transferred between operational systems and SAP is complete and accurate.

Identify root causes of accounting and system issues coordinate resolution with technical and operational teams and help prevent recurring problems.

Create and maintain process documentation system flow documentation and internal controls for online store accounting processes.

Identify opportunities to simplify automate and strengthen accounting processes as online store activity and systems evolve.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance or related field.

Approximately 26 years of accounting experience preferably including inventory revenue order-to-cash e-commerce retail or consumer product accounting.

Strong understanding of general ledger accounting reconciliations month-end close inventory accounting revenue accounts receivable and cash.

Experience with SAP strongly preferred; experience with other large ERP systems is also valuable.

Experience working with e-commerce platforms order management systems warehouse/inventory systems payment processors or system integrations is a plus.

Strong Excel and data analysis skills with the ability to work through large transaction populations and identify exceptions.

Ability to understand end-to-end transaction flows and translate operational or system issues into accounting impacts.

Strong problem-solving communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

At SIE working with our partners we consider several factors when setting each roles base pay range including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the individual base pay range may vary based on job-related factors which may include knowledge skills experience and location.

In addition this role is eligible for benefit offerings that include medical dental and vision. Click to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below this is an hourly rate.

$55 - $70 USD

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Required Experience:

Senior IC