The Staff Accountant will share responsibilities over a broad range of Accounting and Finance functions, such as accounts receivable, accounts payable, sales & use tax compliance, expense reporting, inventory control, the month-end close process, and financial planning and analysis.
Highlights:
- Pay rate: $28-31/hour
- Hybrid role: only 2 days in-office, and 3 days work from home (Farmers Branch, TX)
- Role is an "add to staff" due to company growth.
- Contract-to-hire (truly looking to convert whoever is hired to a permanent employee, so this is not just strictly a contract role)
General Responsibilities
- Assist with the evaluation, setup, and maintenance of new customers and vendors.
- Review transactions posted in ERP system for accuracy, compliance and use tax accruals.
- Prepare and file monthly, quarterly, and annual sales tax returns.
- Evaluation and ongoing tracking of state Nexus status and registration, as needed.
- Assist with month-end closing of balance sheet and income statement (eg revenue and expense recognition, account reconciliations).
- Assist with cost tracking, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Identify and implement opportunities for improvement.
- Other projects/reporting, as needed.
Accounts Receivable
- Support timely and accurate customer invoicing.
- Support proactive collection of customer balances.
- Collaborate with customers and coworkers to resolve billing and collection issues.
- Post incoming payments.
Accounts Payable
- Support full cycle accounts payable duties including verifying accuracy of vendor invoices, obtaining approvals, vouchering, general ledger coding and payment scheduling.
- Review and validate AP postings by coworkers within the Accounting Department.
- Check payment support; (printing/mailing checks)
- Responding to vendor inquiries, reconciling vendor statements, and researching discrepancies.
- 1099 reporting support.
- Train new coworkers on expense reporting process and assist them with submissions, as needed.
- Review submitted expense reports for accuracy and compliance.
- Track status of purchase orders, AP invoices and expense reports to ensure timely processing.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- 2+ Years of Accounting Experience Relevant to Responsibilities Listed Above
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting preferred but not required, or Additional Comparable Experience
- Experience with general ledger is required
- Experience with ERP Systems
- Intermediate Excel (pivot tables, sum-if, if, lookups)
- Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills
- Comfortable in fast paced environment
- Driven, Highly Self-Motivated
- Detail & Customer Focus Oriented
- Discretion (This role will have access to sensitive information and must maintain confidentiality)
Not Required, but Relevant & Desirable:
- Experience with SAP (Business One)
- Experience with Avalara Sales Tax Tool
- Experience with Concur Expense Reporting Platform
- Excel Macros/RPA/Other Automation Tools
- Data Visualization (Tableau, Power BI, Think-Cell)
- Advanced Presentation Design (eg PowerPoint)