Position Summary...
The Senior Staff Accountant, under the supervision of the Controller, maintains the general ledger and prepares multiple financial documents for the effective and efficient running of the company. Maintaining the general ledger involves preparing daily and cyclical highly time-sensitive and fine detailed reports from multiple departments. The Senior Staff Accountant will contribute to the development and review of annual operating budgets and performance projections.
This position will interact with multiple levels of personnel of the company and external agencies daily to generate and verify financial reports using multiple systems and digital databases such as Microsoft Office Products.
Job Duties...
- Maintain physical and digital filing systems in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Prepare daily and cyclical time-sensitive reports.
- Oversee the daily bank reconciliations
- Prepares monthly departmental reports.
- Prepares monthly financial reports including the General Ledger, Standard and Adjusting Journal Entries; reporting, tracking, and resolving any discrepancies.
- Maintains accuracy of fixed asset accounting.
- Assists senior department personnel with quarterly and annual budget development and performance projections.
- Tracks and verifies multiple project completion tracking reports.
- Reviews weekly unpaid bills report to ensure accurate coding, classification, and completeness.
- Interacts with accounting personnel to complete the monthly closing processes.
- Prepare the company’s tax forms including but not limited to Usage Tax, 1099’s, Property Taxes, and Franchise Tax.
- Participating daily in accounting operations.
Position Requirements...
- Bachelor’s degree in business accounting degree – or equivalent diploma and CPA or CPA Eligible. with 3 years of experience in an accounting department in accounts receivable, collections, analysis, and/or reconciliation. Should have experience with General Ledger and Financial Statements.
- Bachelor’s degree in business accounting or equivalent diploma and Accounting certification in QuickBooks or equivalent with 5 years of experience in an Accounting Department in accounts receivable, collections, analysis, and/or reconciliation is preferred.
Key Skills, Abilities & Success Factors...
- Professional Verbal and Written Communication: This position interacts in person, by email, and by telephone with external and internal agencies and must demonstrate a professional manner reflecting the company image.
- Organization Skills: This position interacts and maintains multiple accounting items arriving simultaneously and needs to be accurately reported and positioned in corresponding files.
- Time management: This position deals with many time-sensitive tasks, which must meet highly Strict Deadlines.
- Collaboration Proficiency: This position will work at times independently and within a team environment.
- Digital Literacy: This position uses MS Office applications and multiple external and internal web-based and electronic sites and databases daily in the operations of tasks.
- High Detail Proficiency: This position will work with many documents where fine details are of the utmost importance in accounting procedures and regulations.
- Analytical Proficiency: This position will be compiling, building, and interpreting various reports associated with financial and numerical data.
- Bookkeeping knowledge: This position will deal with financial accounting documents and must understand and stay relevant to regulations and procedures. Strong knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- High level of integrity and confidentiality: This position will at times handle confidential information either client or company and must handle the custodianship with the highest level of Ethical Responsibility.
- Intercultural sensitivity: This position will work with diverse populations of characteristics and must demonstrate recognition of the value of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and abilities.
- Technical Expertise: This position must understand and stay current on industry and federal regulations.
Expected Hours of Work: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. with some Flexibility as occasional extensions after 5:00 p.m. and weekends may be necessary to meet business needs, but not highly anticipated.
Work Environment...
- Supervisory Responsibility - This position may have direct reports.
- This job operates in a professional office environment using typical office equipment (scanners, printers, computers, phones).
- This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
- The noise level is quiet.
- Primarily dominated English-speaking workplace.
- Attendance at the office is required.
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
Physical Requirements...
- This is a largely sedentary role; however, a short period of walking between buildings daily and some filing is required.
- This position would require the ability to lift 25 Lbs. (if an object weighs more than 50 Lbs. ARL requires this to be a two-person job or use of carts).
- Ability to use hand strength and finger dexterity to perform fine manipulations of typing and writing.
- Operation of standard office equipment.
- Must be fluent in written and spoken English to receive and communicate information for standard and complex operations and emergencies clearly and accurately.
- Requires visual acuity to read and write words and numbers with or without correction.
- Requires hearing communications accurately with or without correction.
Work Restrictions:
Because of the vital nature of this work, we do not allow medical marijuana cards and we do random drug testing on all of our employees.
The Company is subject to certain federal regulations and directives regarding a drug-free workplace. Because of the Company’s federal obligations and directives, as an employee of an analytical laboratory such as ARL Bio Pharma Inc., you will be subject to drug and alcohol testing, including random testing. Marijuana is one of the substances included in drug panel screening. Possession of a medical marijuana license will not excuse you from the testing process, or the consequences of testing positive for marijuana.
General Expectations of All ARL Bio Pharma Employees:
AAP/EEO Statement
ARL Bio Pharma, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. ARL Bio Pharma, Inc. expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetics, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Improper interference with the ability of ARL Bio Pharma, Inc. employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge. Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants and employees are treated without regard to any of these characteristics.
