Staff Accountant - Fort Pierce, United States - Natalie's Orchid Island Juice Company

Description

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• A bachelor's degree in accounting.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in financial accounting.
• Experience working with inventory / ERP (Oracle/NetSuite) and Microsoft Office Suite. Strong MS Excel experience required.
• POSITION TITLE: Staff Accountant
  Principles and practices of financial and manufacturing accounting.
• Principles and practices of financial forecasting and budgeting.
  
  DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
  The Accountant is responsible for ensuring the integrity of accounting information by recording, verifying, consolidating, and entering transactions. In addition, the position assists in the preparation of the budget and forecast for the contribution margin components as well as pulling together the Consolidated Income Statement by business segments.
  • Maintains and balances contribution margin subsidiary accounts by verifying, allocating, posting, reconciling transactions, and resolving discrepancies.
  • Work with AP and AR and assist in daily functions. Monitor collections and assist with collection calls as well as ensure all GL coding is accurate. Maintain fixed assets and CIP reconciliation. Perform other duties as required.
  • Analyze and reconcile various general ledger accounts monthly and prepare journal entries. Additionally, analyze and reconcile various bank accounts monthly and prepare journal entries. Understand what is coming in and out of assigned accounts and prepare a monthly spreadsheet highlighting changes. Address any oddities with managers. Ensure numbers are accurate and balanced.
  • Serve as a technical resource for other departments at budget and forecast time. Update the segment detail for various accounts for both business units; address any oddities with managers; and ensure numbers are accurate and balanced. Work with sales and marketing in preparing detailed budgets and forecasts; collect budget and forecast worksheets from other finance team members and consolidate. Analyze and identify causes of major changes from prior forecasts.
  • Prepare necessary reports and complete projects by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends by sales channel and customer. Gather and analyze assumptions to prepare simulated costs for new and current products.
  • Complete external audit information by analyzing and scheduling general ledger accounts; providing information for the auditors.
  • Serve as the liaison between internal and external customers, multi-department teams, and Information Services.