Senior Staff Accountant

SAI Advanced Power Solutions, INC.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in electrical manufacturing seeks a motivated Staff Accountant. You will be responsible for preparing financial statements, account reconciliations, and supporting financial operations. Join a team that values collaboration, growth, and excellence in a dynamic working environment.

Benefits

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

401(k)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, CPA or CMA is a plus.
• Experience in financial accounting preferred.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare financial statements and reports.
• Conduct monthly account reconciliations.
• Process customer payments and follow up on overdue invoices.

Skills

Communication

Analytical

Relationship Building

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

Working toward CPA, CMA

Tools

MS Access

Excel

Word

Job description

Expand yourself -- and your potential to succeed! Join our staff of motivated, forward-thinking individuals and thrive in an atmosphere of team-work and collaboration.

Position Summary: Assist with the preparation of financial statements and reports. Assists Finance Director with month end closing duties and reporting. Responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Reviews, monitors, reconciles, all accounts and provides reports and analysis.
• Prepare and process daily all customer invoices, monitor correspondence with customer through payment.This includes all progress billings; customer pay applications and other invoices.This also requires close interaction with all projects managers.
• Monthly reconciliation of all bank accounts and corporate credit cards.
• Provide external tax advisors with depreciation, R&D credit, and other tax requests.Follow up on sales tax exemptions for customer billings.
• Process customer payments to accounts receivable.Follow up with customer and/or BU leaders and project managers for any past due invoices.
• Preparation of monthly journal entries for payroll, and monthly expense accruals; other miscellaneous journal entries as required.
• Ensures completeness and accuracy of monthly account reconciliations of financial data for the purpose of maintaining accurate account balances and ensuring compliance with established accounting practices.
• Maintain financial information, files and records (e.g. copies of paid invoices, checks, documentation, reimbursements, reports, vendor files, receipts, etc.) for the purpose of ensuring the availability of documentation and compliance with established polices and regulatory guidelines.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining appropriate business relationships with internal and external customers.
• Assists in the preparation of various financial statements and monthly reporting including cash flow and other KPI charts.
• Perform a range of office duties, including maintaining the accounting filing system and retrieving information as required, archiving material as necessary, and maintaining a strict level of confidentiality at all times when dealing with company and employee information.
• Work with a variety of manual and computerized record keeping systems; including scanning materials and ensuring that archived and scanned data is easily accessed by the department.
• Responds to inquiries of staff and administration regarding financial procedures for the purpose of providing information, direction and/or referral for addressing inquiry.
• Identify opportunities to improve the accounting process including accounts payable and receivables, document and streamline processes completed by the finance team.
• Ensures that all entries are made in accordance with SAI accounting policies and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Provide guidance and assistance to staff accountant and accounts payable coordinator. Assists with processing of vendor invoices as needed, vendor set up, ACH set up and processing and check processing
• Responsible for assisting in performing various special projects as assigned.
• Regular in-person attendance is an essential function of this job

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Accounting orFinance and working knowledge of GAAP is required.
• Working toward a Masters or other certification (CPA, CMA, etc.) is a plus.
• Accounting related experience in financial industry or public accounting preferred.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Able to multi-task activities with shifting priorities.
• Excellent communication and follow-up skills.
• Strong analytical, verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent people/relationship building skills.
• Ability to apply critical thought process
• Ability to work with a variety of manual and computerized record keeping systems.
• Efficient word processing and computer software skills; proficient in the following applications: MS Access, Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Must be able to read, write and converse fluently in English with the level of competency that will permit the applicant to function in the position.
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8-hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location:

• $70K

H1B Sponsorship is not available for this position

No remote work for this position

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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