Senior Corporate Accountant - Milbank, United States - Valley Queen

Description

Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position Summary
This position is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the accounting functions of the company. This position requires exceptional knowledge of business management techniques and best practices. This is a shared role with areas of responsibilities including recording business transactions, financial statement preparation, auditing, compliance and budget management.

Essential Functions

• Establish, monitor, and enforce accounting policies and procedures to ensure accurate and timely financial records are always maintained.
• Review accounting processes and works on improving inefficiencies.
• Ensure all company accounts are accurately reconciled.
• Prepare and manage annual audits (both internal and external) following financial regulations, laws, and policies.
• Coordinate annual accounting filings.
• Analyze company finances to determine risks and create forecast reports.
• Comply with federal, state, and local legal requirements by enforcing adherence to requirements, filing financial reports, and advising management on needed actions.
• Prepare and review financial statements.
• Prepare financial accounts for monthly review.
• Prepare and submit the monthly use tax return.
• Assist in quarterly reviews year-end progress reports.
• Prepare departmental and companywide budgets by establishing schedules, collecting, analyzing, and consolidating financial data.
• Monitor budget expenditures while communicating to appropriate leadership on monthly budget status.
• Oversee entire payroll process to ensure timeliness and accuracy of payroll transactions including salaries, benefits, garnishments, taxes, and other deductions.
• Maintain fixed assets and depreciation schedules.
• Accurately maintain corporate stock register.
• Maintain compliance and reporting for Valley Queen Charitable Foundation.
• Develop EDP (Electronic Data Processing) support specifications and user manuals, describing financial data flow and input/output requirements.
• Process all transactions related to common and preferred stock shares.
• Process quarterly and special dividends on a timely and accurate basis.
• Serve as teller during annual shareholder meetings and for other circumstances, as required.

Competencies

1. Time Management
2. Organizational Skills
3. Financial Management
4. Detail Oriented
5. Personal Effectiveness/Credibility
6. Strategic Thinking
7. Business Acumen

Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibility.

Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment and technology.

Physical Demands
The physical demands for this position are mainly able to do sedentary work. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently will need to sit, stand, walk. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position. Base hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Travel
No travel is required for this position.

Required Education and Experience
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field and/or ten years of equivalent experience. Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).

Preferred Education and Experience
Certified Public Accountant. Bilingual in English/Spanish.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications
None required for this position.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of responsibilities, duties or tasks that are required of the employee for this job. Responsibilities, duties and tasks may change at any time with or without notice.

Pay Grade 10