Senior E-Commerce Accountant (Contract) - SAP & O2C

PlayStation Global; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 76,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Job summary

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior Accountant for e-Commerce on a contract basis. You will manage full-cycle accounting for the online store, including inventory, revenue, AR, and cash, while coordinating with Accounting, Operations, E-commerce, Supply Chain, and IT to resolve system integration issues.

The role emphasizes SAP-based reconciliations, journal entries, and close processes, with a strong focus on end-to-end transaction flows and internal controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• Approximately 2–6 years of accounting experience, preferably including inventory, revenue, order-to-cash, e-commerce, retail, or consumer product accounting.
• Strong understanding of general ledger accounting, reconciliations, month-end close, inventory accounting, revenue, accounts receivable, and cash.
• Experience with SAP strongly preferred; experience with other large ERP systems is also valuable.
• Experience working with e-commerce platforms, order management systems, warehouse/inventory systems, payment processors, or system integrations is a plus.
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills, with the ability to work through large transaction populations and identify exceptions.
• Ability to understand end-to-end transaction flows and translate operational or system issues into accounting impacts.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own full-cycle accounting for online store activity, including inventory, sales, cost of goods sold, accounts receivable, cash, refunds, credits, and related balance sheet accounts.
• Perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and review of transaction completeness and accuracy.
• Reconcile inventory subledger activity to SAP, including receipts, transfers, adjustments, returns, write-offs, and inventory reserves where applicable.
• Review and reconcile cost of goods sold to product sales and inventory movement, investigating unusual margins, timing differences, and data issues.
• Support the complete order-to-cash cycle, including sales orders, fulfillment, billing, revenue recognition, customer receivables, refunds, credits, and cash application.
• Reconcile payment processor and bank activity to customer orders, accounts receivable, and SAP postings; research unmatched or failed transactions.
• Partner with Operations, E-commerce, Supply Chain, IT, and Finance teams to understand transaction flows across multiple systems and ensure accurate accounting in SAP.
• Investigate integration issues between sales, order management, inventory/warehouse, payment, and SAP systems, and determine the accounting impact of incomplete, duplicated, delayed, or incorrect transactions.
• Participate in system implementations, integration changes, user acceptance testing, and validation of automated accounting entries and interfaces.
• Develop and maintain reconciliation tools and controls to confirm that data transferred between operational systems and SAP is complete and accurate.
• Identify root causes of accounting and system issues, coordinate resolution with technical and operational teams, and help prevent recurring problems.
• Create and maintain process documentation, system flow documentation, and internal controls for online store accounting processes.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and strengthen accounting processes as online store activity and systems evolve.

Skills

Accounting knowledge

Data analysis

Communication

Cross-functional work

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

SAP

ERP systems

Job description

Sony Interactive Entertainment in San Mateo, CA is seeking a Senior Accountant for e-Commerce on a contract basis. You will manage full-cycle accounting for the online store, including inventory, revenue, AR, and cash, while coordinating with Accounting, Operations, E-commerce, Supply Chain, and IT to resolve system integration issues.

The role emphasizes SAP-based reconciliations, journal entries, and close processes, with a strong focus on end-to-end transaction flows and internal controls.