This opportunity is located in Scranton, PA. Any qualified candidate must be located in that area.
Summary
The staff accountant position is responsible for working with the VP of Finance to ensure timely and accurate reporting to management and the Board of Directors. This includes both month and year end reporting, daily and weekly sales analysis, cash forecasting, and budget tracking. The staff accountant applies GAAP to analyze past and present operations.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Perform month end and year end closing process by recording journal entries, reconciling all accounts, and maintaining a close workbook and schedule to ensure that all items are processed to deadlines.
- Assist in the production of financial statements.
- Prepare reports that summarize and forecast business activities and financial position in areas of income, expense, and earnings. Monitor cash flow.
- Create and recommend accounting and other areas’ processes and procedures.
- Provide guidance and support in resolving complex accounting issues.
- Track and verify contents of general ledger accounts to ensure procedures are followed. Resolve accounting issues as they arise. Provide analysis to management.
- Update consolidated and overview reports for management and the Board of Directors.
- Perform ad-hoc reporting on a continual basis. Act as the main contact for reporting needs, ensuring the figures tie to financial reporting.
- Compile information for annual audits. Coordinate with other departments as necessary.
- Assist with the preparation of the annual budgets. Collect and analyze records of past and present operations, trends, and costs, estimated and realized revenues, administrative commitments, and obligations incurred to project future revenues and expenses.
- Compare budgeted to actual expenditures to provide insights and recommendations for control of expenditures for activities such as advertising, marketing, product development, and professional services.
- Recommend and assist in the development and implementation of cost control measures.
- Maintain a documented system of internal accounting policies and controls over transactions to minimize risk and safeguard assets.
- Report on company benchmarks used to measure performance. Prepare and present KPIs to monitor and help ensure business areas are achieving company goals.
- Proficient in Sage and able to train new users and answer questions from existing colleagues.
- Assist with colleagues’ IT issues and direct communication to applicable IT resources.
- Manage the ongoing sales tax return registration and filing process. Calculate and file states’ sales tax returns regularly ensuring compliance with state and local requirements.
- Update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.