Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Central Coast Agriculture, Inc. is seeking a Senior Accountant to join its Finance & Accounting team. The role supports accounts payable and receivable, month-end close, reconciliations, financial reporting, audit activities, and compliance with GAAP while helping improve accounting processes and controls.
Responsibilities
- Support month-end close activities for assigned functional areas including treasury, A/R, A/P, fixed assets, prepaids and accruals
- Prepare and review journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting schedules
- Assist with the preparation of timely and accurate financial statements
- Analyze financial results and identify variances, trends, and areas of concern
- Manage all Accounts Payable functions including approving new vendors, reviewing and validating data accuracy of vendor invoices and payment transactions, and preparing annual 1099s
- Manage day-to-day Accounts Receivable functions, including applications of cash receipts and credit memos, and reconciling A/R subledger reports to the General Ledger
- Report issues or gaps identified in the daily accounting operations to the Senior Accounting Manager and propose solutions
- Support external audits, including preparing audit schedules and responding to auditor requests
- Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, controls, and efficiencies
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, GAAP, and company accounting policies
- Assist with system implementations, special projects, and ad hoc initiatives as needed
Skills
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty in a satisfactory manner
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required for this position
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to ensure individuals with disabilities are able to perform the work functions
- · Eagerness to Learn Software – Must be able to learn how to navigate through and transact in unfamiliar software
- · Planning and Organizing – Engages in short and long-term planning, sets priorities to optimize time usage, adheres to schedules and plans
- · Creativity and Innovation – Initiates conceptual ideas with practical applications, develops creative strategies and opportunities, creative thinking and problem solving, promotes a creative climate
- · Judgment and Decision Making – Solves problems, considers relevant alternatives before making decisions, displays intuitive judgment, shows timeliness and conviction in making recommendations and decisions
- · Teamwork and Relationship-Building Skills – Assists team members in accomplishing their objectives by helping things go right, establishes effective working relationships, and promotes team efforts
- · Adaptability and Change Management Skills – Ability to change to fit changed circumstances in rapidly changing environment. Has the skill to multi-task and juggle competing priorities
- · Develops Team and Self – to learn and grow; maintains current knowledge in the field
- · Communication and Cooperation – Effectively communicates upward, downward and laterally. Prevents unproductive responses, improves the effectiveness of communications and interactions with others
- · Accountability and Productivity – Holds themselves accountable to team members, accepts responsibility for their own decisions, sustains peak performance and solves problems that impede productivity
- · Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- · Previous experience as a Senior Accountant in a similar sized business and/or public company
- · Five or more years' experience in accounting
- · Working knowledge of GAAP and controls implementation
- · Experience analyzing problems and implementing systems, workflows and controls in a company with revenue growth
- · Possess effective written and verbal communication skills for interaction with team, peers, and management
- · Prior experience with ERPs
- · Possess a valid California Driver's License
- · Proficient in Microsoft Excel
- · Must be at least 21 years of age
- · CPA
- · Big four or public accounting experience with exposure to audit engagements
- · Experience working with Sage X3, SAP Concur
Benefits
- Remote (CA only)
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