Corp Staff Accountant (61425)

Position Summary:

HAC, Inc. is an employee-owned company seeking a highly self-motivated employee. The staff accounting position will be responsible for assisting with maintaining the general ledger, accounting reconciliations, and assisting in preparing financial statements. Candidates should possess critical thinking skills and high attention to detail, as well as the ability to recognize, evaluate, and resolve problems effectively individually and as a team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting with maintaining general ledger activities. This includes but is not limited to, entering and reviewing daily and weekly preparation of entries, financial period close entries, and assisting with any planning or assigning ledger entries and reconciliations as required.
• Other responsibilities include research and internal communications of accounts payable and accounts receivable questions.
• Manage and execute end-of-period financial close and reconciliation processes. Complete, review, and ensure that all assigned account reconciliations are completed accurately and timely. This includes banking reconciliations, accounts payable, and accounts receivable reconciliations.
• Collaborates with the HR department and accounting/treasury analyst to ensure the weekly and bi-weekly payroll is completed, journalized, and reconciled.
• Calculate, accrue, and reconcile payments owed to vendors and landlords based on contractual agreements. Calculate, accrue, and reconcile payments owed to the company, often in the form of rebates, based on contractual agreements.
• Accrue and allocate expenses as necessary.
• Calculate various inventories as required.
• Manage all fixed assets and CIP daily operational, accounting, and financial reporting activities for the company. Knowledge of GAAP capital expenditure is preferred. Fixed Asset ledgers are maintained in accounting and fixed asset system software, which must be reconciled each period close. Collaboration with all internal departments to prepare and journalize fixed asset spending.
• Assist with informational budgeting requests, financial analysis, ad hoc reporting, and special projects as needed. Also coordinates with outside auditors and provides needed information for the annual external audit.
• Additional job responsibilities include the ability to identify areas to enhance proficiency. HAC is transferring to a focus on globalization of processes and shifting from manual to automated, where possible, including all departments. Also, present recommendations to management on short- and long-term enhanced control and financial activities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• 1-2 years of related experience required.
• Fixed Asset experience preferred.
• Good organizational, analytical, and mathematical skills are essential to fulfill job requirements.
• Strong oral and written communication skills are mandatory, as well as the ability to work well with all levels of management.
• Technical literacy preferred, particularly in Excel. The ability to understand and create complex excel formulas and possibly macros is necessary.
• CPA or CPA future candidate preferred.

Work environment/physical demands:

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Ability to sit for long periods of time.
• Lifting of items 10 – 25 lbs.
• This position requires no travel.

HAC, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities for all current employees and applicants for employment. This policy means that no one will be discriminated against because of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, nationality, citizenship, ancestry, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, genetic predisposing characteristics or any other basis prohibited by law.