Accountant

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 arms, and may be required to balance, stoop, kneel or crawl
• The employee may occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds
• Must comply with safety equipment standards: safety glasses, hearing protection, and safety toe shoes when present on production floor

VALUE ASSESSMENT TARGETS

Adaptability & FlexibilityAdvanced

Commitment & InitiativeProficient

Communication & Interpersonal SkillsAdvanced

Customer FocusAdvanced

Decision Making Ability & JudgmentAdvanced

Honesty & IntegrityProficient

Leadership & TeamworkProficient

Performance: Quality & QuantityProficient

Professionalism & AttitudeProficient

Vision & InnovationProficient