Staff Accountant/Senior Staff Accountant

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SUMMARY

The Senior Staff Accountant works in partnership with departmental staff to manage the offshore team and ensure day-to-day accounting functions are completed.

A successful candidate will have a strong background in balance sheet reconciliations and a clear understanding of full cycle accounting.

This position will require the ability to work independently and in collaboration with other senior accountants to meet departmental goals.

Essential Duties / Responsibilities :

• Manage offshore team and provide guidance on how to successfully complete assigned tasks.
• Verify and confirm revenue, journal entries, invoices, inventory, bank reconciliations, and other transactions performed by internal and offshore teams to ensure accuracy and reasonableness.
• Provide support to operational locations to complete daily and weekly tasks including but not limited to inventory, daily sales reports, and P&L variances.
• Lead the month-end close process and offer assistance and counsel to internal and offshore teams.
• Populate internal monthly and quarterly financial statements including balance sheets, profit & loss statements, equity roll forward, and statement of cash flows.
• Participate in the preparation of corporate and franchise taxes, quarterly and interim review activities, and year-end audit activities by external and internal auditors as they relate to corporate accounting and consolidation activities.
• Perform moderately complex analysis and prepare account reconciliations including balance sheet and bank reconciliations in service to issuing financial statements.
• Calculate and record fees, accruals, and allocations.
• Review Alcohol tax reports and Sales tax reports for the State of Texas and file monthly returns.
• Track fixed assets from purchase to disposition. Calculate depreciation monthly.
• Oversee and maintain prepaid account schedules and recognize expenses timely.
• Ad hoc reporting as needed in partnership with FP&A team.

Qualifications and Skills :

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting is a must. Minimum five years of full cycle GL experience.
• Previous hospitality industry experience preferred, and strong understanding of inventory is a plus.
• Advanced proficiency in current versions of Microsoft Excel required. Power BI experience is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must be analytical and detail-oriented and possess excellent documentation skills.
• Demonstrated understanding of policies and procedures that apply to assignments and insight into the "why" as well as the "how".
• Expected to serve as a resource to others for knowledge transfer, training, and checking work. May occasionally lead a special project or team.
• Ability to interact effectively with various levels of staff and management across departments, including leading a small offshore team.
• Strong attention to detail, as well as demonstrated problem-solving and independent decision-making capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills with experience performing detailed financial statement flux analysis with advanced documentation and investigative skills.
• Exceptional organization, time-management, and prioritization skills, as well as on-the-job flexibility and ability to work under tight deadlines.
• Works independently through the use of initiative and self-motivation while maintaining high collaboration with manager, lead, and peers.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Note : This is not an Accounts Payable / Accounts Receivable position. Qualified applicants must have previous full cycle accounting experience.

Physical Demands :

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

Ability to occasionally push / pull up to 25lbs; vision correctable to 20 / 20 in one eye; hearing correctable to normal;

ability to tolerate prolonged sitting and / or standing; ability to stoop, stand, use fingers, hands, and arms; ability to tolerate repeated routine tasks.

While performing the duties of the job, the employee is required on a daily basis to analyze and interpret data, communicate, and remain in a stationary position for a significant amount of the workday;

and frequently access, input, and retrieve information from the computer and other office productivity devices. The employee is regularly required to move about the office and around the corporate campus.

The employee may be occasionally required to travel to other sites, including out-of-state, where applicable, for business.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment :

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

While the job is generally performed in an office environment, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and / or humid conditions, areas in which moving mechanical parts, fumes, toxic or caustic chemicals are present, and outside weather conditions.

The noise level in the office environment is typically quiet, but the employee may be occasionally exposed to loud noise levels.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Goode Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate against an employee or applicant based upon race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, or veteran’s status or any other protected factor under federal, state, or local law.

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