Senior Staff Accountant

About Estes Industries

Estes Industries has built, and our customers have flown, over 500 million small solid-propellant rocket motors over the past sixty years. Estes serves a broad range of customers in the education, hobby, industrial, defense, and government markets. Located in Penrose, Colorado, with approximately 80 employees and growing, Estes offers great employee benefits and competitive wages. We currently have an opening for a Staff Accountant.

The experienced Senior Staff Accountant maintains and controls the general ledger accounts and business transactions of the organization, applying Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). Duties include analytical work and thorough review of financial records. This position reports to the Controller.    

Essential Functions

General Ledger

• • Assist with the month-end revenue and cost recognition process, including calculating and preparing journal entries to record revenue earned and costs incurred according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
  • Assist with monthly reconciliation of subledgers to the General Ledger
  • Analyze key balance sheet accounts to assist with monthly reconciliations

Reporting

• • Analyze monthly revenue and costs by customer and product line to assist with providing variance analysis vs. budget, forecast, and prior year
  • Provide analysis on key balance sheet accounts to assist with monthly, quarterly, and annual updates to senior management

General

• • Utilize accounting system, sales tax reporting system, capital asset tracking system, spreadsheets, and presentation software
  • Assist with implementing efficiency improvements in revenue and cost recognition processes
  • Supervise and/or assist with accounts receivable and accounts payable processes
• Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions.  Prepares monthly account reconciliations for assigned general ledger accounts which includes reviewing, investigating, and correcting errors or inconsistencies in these accounts.
• Oversees and assists with accounts receivable processes, including monitoring activity on vendor portals, preparing monthly accruals, researching and resolving invoice discrepancies, disputing customer charge backs, and preparing customer account adjustments.
• Reviews accounts receivable aging reports, oversees customer communication regarding outstanding balances, and maintains policy to identify and monitor risky or slow paying accounts.
• Supports customer service personnel in obtaining and entering proper documentation for customer sales tax exemptions.  Assists in reviewing, verifying, and correcting transactions within sales tax reporting system.  Assists in reconciling and monitoring sales tax registration and reporting in numerous states.   
• Assists with accounts payable processes as required, including updating vendor contacts and master records in accounting system.
• Reconciles all bank accounts and reviews reconciliations of credit card receipts and credit card accounts, researching and resolving discrepancies.
• Coordinates month-end and year-end closing procedures with all departments to ensure completion and timely reporting of transactions.
• Oversees tracking of capital assets, including updating capital asset database, ensuring physical descriptions match records, compiling supporting documentation, and verifying monthly depreciation calculations using appropriate book and tax methods.
• Monitors and tracks expenditures and revenues against budget, analyzes financial performance, prepares financial reports, forecasts expenditures, guides management in fiscal compliance and analytical planning, and anticipates potential problems.
• Reconciles complex discrepancies with journal and accounting transactions, reviews, researches and analyzes reporting errors, creates reports and compiles supporting documents for corrections within accounting systems, and guides management through corrective actions.
• Conducts special projects with financial transactions, researches and analyzes accounting issues, performs complex financial calculations, and creates reports and compiles supporting documents for management review.
• Performs complex audits of financial records and transactions, reviews and matches records and statements to ensure accuracy within accounting systems, identifies and researches discrepancies, resolves or makes recommendations for corrective actions, and works with management to complete process.
• Ensures compliance and maintains fiscal accountability for rules, regulations, standards, policies, and procedures in accordance with GAAP and regulatory agencies.
• Works with stakeholders, both internal and external to the company, responds to inquiries, provides specialized and complex information and assistance about specific accounting transactions, and works to resolve accounting discrepancies and guide decision making.
• Assists in preparing the Financial Reports, which includes preparing various financial statements such as balance sheets, statements of operations, statements of owner’s equity, and cash flow statements, preparing workpapers on capital assets, investments and debt positions, preparing supplemental and statistical schedules, researching, compiling and calculating financial data, working directly with external auditors and tax accountants to provide information and reports and support the annual audit and tax reporting processes.
• Reviews and strengthens internal financial controls and ensures controls are in alignment with the company’s guidelines and framework, which includes designing and implement internal controls, establishing criteria for the evaluation of processes to identify deficiencies and risks, and recommending and implementing corrective actions to ensure compliance with fiscal rules and policies.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Competencies

Financial and Mathematical Acumen

Decision Making

Interpersonal Skills

Mathematical Reasoning

Ethical Conduct

Attention to Detail and Accuracy

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a  full-time position; typical work hours and days are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Some flexibility in hours is allowed, but the employee must be available during the “core” work hours of 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and must work 40 hours each week to maintain full-time status. This is not a remote position.

Required Education and Experience

• Minimum 3-5 years accounting experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance, MBA and/or CPA preferred
• Strong organizational and analytical skills
• Experience with enterprise-level accounting systems, databases, and reporting tools
• Excellent technical accounting skills
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities
• E Experience with financial and GAAP reporting
• Proficient with MS Excel, Word, Power Point
• Experience with Glovia or other integrated software systems a plus

AAP/EEO Statement

Estes Industries, LLC provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.

Salary : $60,000 - $80,000