Sr Accounting Clerk (Finance)
Responsible for reviewing, entering, coding, and validating financial transactions, reconciling multiple data sources and preparing reports for management review.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Validate, code and process vendor invoices within payment terms and department goals
- Key invoices into payables system
- Compare accrued freight to invoiced freight and validate variances are within acceptable tolerances or take appropriate action to resolve variance
- Invoice customer shipments with proper freight accruals and process internal transfers
- Validate and input production and inventory transactions including treat charges, mixing preservatives, inventory movements,
- Complete financial close duties in accordance with company closing policies, including account reconciliations and account balance analysis
- Perform ad-hoc analysis with minimal supervision
- Act as department leader to identify and resolve issues as they arise
- Train and mentor peers
- Verifies and posts details of business transactions, such as funds received and disbursed, and totals accounts to ledgers or computer spreadsheets and databases
- Respond to and contact vendors regarding payment status in professional manner
- Mail checks in timely manner with enclosed appropriate supporting documentation
- Keep Office Manager apprised of potential concerns and statuses
- Maintain and update process documentation
- Appropriately respond to questions from internal and external stakeholders
- Participates and contributes to company safety program.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
Qualifications:
- Education: Associate's degree (A.A.) or equivalent preferred
- Experience: Three years' experience in accounting functions and reconciling general ledger.
- License/Certification: NA
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Experience in Microsoft Suite
- Knowledge of spreadsheet software, database software, and word processing software
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
- Exceptional customer service and communication skills
