Senior Accountant (Inventory Management)

Description

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Description

Yamaha employees are committed to helping everyone progress, express, and connect through music and sound. We offer innovative, finely crafted and award-winning products for the entire journey.

As the world's largest musical instrument manufacturer, we are known for our quality, customer service and innovation.

Purpose of Role

Records financial transactions, following the accounting rules and internal control guidelines, and present them in a form that informs business decisions.

Key Accountabilities Include

• Ensure application of company policies and accounting guidelines.
• Support timely resolution of issues.
• Support accurate and timely processing of subledger and GL recordings.
• Support awareness and adherence to internal controls.
• Ensure delivery of timely and accurate financial reports.

Primary Responsibilities Include

• Participate in month end close activities; prepare journal entries and enter journal entries for posting.
• Create master data records and maintain subledger entries
• Advise internal departments.
• Provide information and answers to financial and JSOX auditors.
• Prepare the parents company reporting package.
• GL accounts reconciliation and analysis; including fluctuation analysis.
• Create and maintain documentation for processes and procedures for responsible tasks.

Core Functional Competencies

• Compliance - Finance : Apply regulatory requirements to YCA financial activities.
• Data Exceptions : Understands processes and data flows; identifies errors and fixes financial presentation.
• External Audits : Comply to external audit requirements and pass audits with no material misstatement.
• General Ledger : Maintain the primary accounting record and understand trends and relationships between data points.
• Internal Controls Over Financial Statement : Document internal controls / process flows and establish internal controls in compliance with JSOX.
• Reconciliations : Ensure that two sets of accounting records are in agreement.
• Reporting : Generate appropriate reports to meet information requests and / or needs.

Core Behavioral Competencies

• Yamaha Way (Will, Integrity, Initiative, Challenge, Commitment)
• Customer Focus
• Decision Quality
• Plans and Aligns
• Collaborates
• Self-Development
• Situational Adaptability

Qualifications

Ideal

• Advanced Excel experience; including manipulating large datasets, creating complex formulas, and generating reports.
• Demonstrated success applying GAAP (IFRS) to financial reporting.
• Experience with ERP.
• Progressive experience in general ledger accounting in a corporate environment.
• Progressive experience with account reconciliation / intercompany reconciliations and reserve balance analysis.
• Experience with reporting systems.
• Conduct period close reconciliation of multiple inventory locations and tie out inventory subledger records to general ledger.
• Inventory cost updates and review inter - warehouse transfers.
• Inventory Reporting and Analysis including landing costs, slow or obsolete inventories and inventory reserve requirements, and fluctuation analysis.
• Support physical inventories and inventory audit requirements.

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in accounting.
• Knowledge of Oracle.
• 5+ years related experience in general ledger accounting in corporate environment.

Here's What We'll Bring

• Comprehensive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental, LTD, Life-Insurance and 401k with match AND automatic contributions
• Performance based bonus program
• Robust employee wellness programs including free music lessons
• Gym and wellness reimbursement program
• Tobacco cessation reward program
• Free concerts from award winning artists
• Discounted hotel, travel, entertainment, and other attractions
• Employee product purchase program
• Flexible work options (including hybrid schedule)
• Casual dress
• Vacation, sick-time and personal floating holidays
• Monthly events, for example Bring Your Dog to Work Day, Employee Singing Competitions, Spirit Week and other fun events
• Inclusive and passionate culture
• We foster a culture in which everyone feels welcomed, included, and valued; and recognize that diversity contributes to the success of Yamaha

Compensation

• Up to $95,000 / per year
• The posted compensation is the base pay. This is the hiring range and does not include bonus potential or the value of benefits.

The hiring range does not reflect total earning potential over time.

Final offers within the posted compensation range are based on qualifications, skills and experience required for the role.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.

However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)