Job Description
The Senior Staff Accountant supports monthly accounting and finance activities, including financial close, inventory management, and accounts payable, to ensure accurate financial reporting and operational efficiency within a renewable energy company.
Key Responsibilities
- Support monthly accounting and financial activities, including preparing journal entries and performing balance sheet reconciliations.
- Assist with plant financial forecasting, budgeting, and analysis to improve accuracy and operational decision-making.
- Conduct weekly and monthly inventories of raw materials, spare parts, and consumables, ensuring accurate accounting of finished goods shipped.
- Monitor and record plant load-out activities, ensuring all loads leaving the plant are properly documented and reconciled.
- Reconcile and process accounts payable transactions, including invoice matching, coding, and resolving discrepancies.
- Ensure compliance with financial policies and procedures in processing invoices and purchase orders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in accounting, Finance, or related quantitative field
- 4-7 years of relevant accounting experience
- Experience processing a high volume of invoices and/or purchase orders
- Demonstrated ability to plan and organize work activities, manage time efficiently and follow policies and procedures
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and accounting software such as Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, or similar ERP system
- Ability to maintain confidentiality concerning financial data
- Demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff
- Support in preparing journal entries and supporting documentation during the corporate monthly financial close
- Assist the Plant Controller with performing balance sheet reconciliations during the corporate monthly financial close
- Assist the Plant Controller with completing bi-weekly forecasts and the annual budget
- Support analyses to improve forecast accuracy and operational decision making
- Take weekly and monthly inventories, including raw material, spare parts, and consumable inventories
- Ensure the accurate accounting of finished goods inventory shipped from the operating plant location to the port location
- Monitor the plant’s load out function to ensure all loads leaving are recorded in the software system daily
- Communicate effectively with the port’s Office Manager to ensure all loads leaving the plant were subsequently received by the port
- Timely resolution of any daily reconciling items or potential inventory discrepancies
- Assist in reconciling invoices to purchase orders, purchase requisitions, and receiving reports for goods and services three-way matching
- Ensure that appropriate sales tax is either included on the vendor invoice or tracked on a daily log to assist with monthly accrual and payment
- Assist with obtaining appropriate approval for payment of invoices received that do not have a purchase requisition or purchase order number
- Review for the accurate coding and timely processing of invoices
- Investigate and resolve all discrepancies associated with the processing of invoices
- Review the coding of purchase orders and confirm the appropriate accounting treatment of invoices including prepaid expenses and fixed assets
- Ensure transactions comply with financial policies and procedures
- Willing and able to work in an industrial environment and maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, including wearing safety equipment as needed
Benefits & Perks
Compensation/salary range not specified
Work schedule not specified
Work environment includes industrial setting with safety equipment requirements
Supportive work environment with opportunities for operational improvement and process efficiency
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