Staff Accountant

Advanced Ground Systems Engineering; Santa Fe Springs (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Ground Systems Engineering seeks a Staff Accountant to assist with month-end and year-end closing, develop financial reports, and manage day-to-day accounting operations. This role serves as the primary contact for invoicing, bill payments, and cash receipts, and supports ERP system initiatives.

The position emphasizes accurate financial reporting, revenue recognition, and cross-functional collaboration, with opportunities to streamline processes and enhance financial information

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting.
• Five years' experience in general ledger, AR, billing and collections.
• Experience using ERP systems.
• Strong data management and data analysis skills.
• Efficient time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to follow written procedures and document procedures for standard tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong Excel skills (V-Lookups, pivot tables).
• Experience with manufacturing accounting preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and collaboration in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Managing accounts receivable, credit and collections and maintaining customer master data.
• Responsible for all month-end activities related to Accounts Receivables.
• Ensuring proper revenue recognition and documentation.
• Entering cash receipts and reconciling cash transactions with bank statements.
• Preparing and maintaining a 13-week cash collection forecast, with variance explanations.
• Training other AR personnel and backing up AR/AP as needed.
• Performing timely month-end journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Assisting with year-end activities and tax returns and providing substantiation for audits.
• Cross-functional collaboration to support business initiatives and address accounting matters.
• Adhering to policies and regulations and ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
• Supporting ERP implementations and AR/AP process improvements.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Skills

General ledger

Accounts Receivable (AR)

Billing and collections

Data analysis

Excel (V-Lookups, pivot tables)

Verbal and written communication

Interpersonal skills

Manufacturing accounting (preferred)

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Description

JOB SUMMARY

Reporting to the Director of General Accounting, the Staff Accountant is responsible for assisting month-end and year-end closing, including the development of financial reports; managing the day-to-day finance and accounting operations and other select finance-related administration; ensuring timely reconciliation and reporting of all financial statements and prepares financial analyses for parent/subsidiaries as requested; serves as the primary contact for invoicing, bill payments and cash receipts for our customers. The Senior Revenue Accountant also implements and trains staff to use software, streamline processes and improves distribution and accessibility of financial information.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing accounts receivable, credit and collections and maintaining customer master data.
• Responsible for all month-end activities related to Accounts Receivables.
• Ensuring proper revenue recognition and documentation.
• Responsible for entering cash receipts, reconciling cash transactions with bank statements.
• Preparing and maintaining a 13-week cash collection forecast, including the ability to explain variances between actual and forecasted collections and changes in the collections forecast.
• Training other AR personnel and serve as AR and AP backup if needed.
• Performing timely and accurate month-end journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations (e.g., assets, liabilities, revenue, expenses, accruals, etc.), ensuring that accounting schedules are updated and accurate.
• Assisting with year-end activities and tax returns and providing substantiation documents to support audits.
• Cross-functional collaboration, partnering with other team members, support business initiatives and address accounting-related matters.
• Adhering to policies and regulations and ensuring compliance with company policies and accounting standards.
• Participating in and supporting special projects, such as Epicor ERP system implementations, AR/AP process improvement, financial analysis to drive efficiency and add value to the organization.
• Any other duties as assigned by management.

JOB REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting.
• Five years' experience in general ledger, AR, billing and collections.
• Experience using ERP systems.
• Strong data management and data analysis skills.
• Efficient time management and organizational skills.
• Ability to follow written procedures and/or document procedures for standard tasks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong excel skills, i.e. V-Lookups, pivot tables, etc.
• Experience with manufacturing accounting preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with experience collaborating in a multidisciplinary, diverse, and dynamic team.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORKING CONDITIONS

While performing the duties of this job, employees are regularly required to sit, walk and stand; talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; reach with hands and arms; and lift up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here represent those employee encounters while performing this job's essential functions. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Employees work under typical office or warehouse conditions, and the noise level is usually quiet to moderate. However, in certain assignments, an employee may work near moving equipment and be exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals, biological hazards, airborne fumes, outdoor weather conditions, and loud, prolonged noise.