What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at IMI?
Purpose: This role supports the Company’s Finance operations by maintaining ongoing accounting operations and providing analysis of the Company’s financial performance to ensure timely processing of essential accounting transactions and availability of critical financial information.
General Expectations: Demonstrated leadership of the core values.
General Expectations: Demonstrated leadership of the core values.
- Drive: IMI employs individuals who have a clear passion for our business. We take action and are accountable to bring together all the efforts necessary to meet the challenge. We work hard and are highly motivated to both succeed and help others do the same.
- Joy: Being JOYFUL is a choice. We gain our JOY through creativeness, service, and a single-mindedness to see others prosper. IMI teammates are full of enthusiasm, positive energy, and fun.
- Humility: We believe that HUMILITY is a strong foundation of all our relationships. Humility is treating everyone with respect and not seeing ourselves as better or higher up than anyone else. Rather, it is being able to deal with everyone on a shared, equal level, without prejudice.
- Grit: Courage. Resilience. Excellence. Conscientiousness. These are inner strengths that characterize IMI employees, individually and collectively. Whenever faced with a challenge, we take initiative to bring about positive results.
- Others First: Our success is a shared success, and only comes when we take care of OTHERS FIRST. By focusing on, caring for, and meeting the needs of others before our own, we will achieve our individual and collective purposes – both in business and in our personal lives.
Essential Responsibilities and Duties:
SUPPORTS ACCOUNTING OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL REPORTING
- Maintains accurate reconciliations and resolutions of all General Ledger and sub-ledger accounts monthly.
- Daily and month-end journal entries
- Monthly reconciliations
- Prepares financial statements with analysis for Controller’s review for IMI and Groundspring.
- Prepare consolidating financial statements for IMI
- Assists the external accountants in the preparation for the annual review and provides requested support during fieldwork portion of the audit to achieve a timely and accurate review result.
- Other ad hoc reporting as necessary to support daily/monthly/annual close functions and overall business operations.
- Preparation of multi-state sales tax returns
- Participate in business process definition and implementation to assure accuracy and efficiency within finance team operations
- Back-up to other accounting roles as necessary
- Interact with other team members in achievement of department and entity goals
- Manage financial system in NetSuite
BUSINESS/FINANCIAL PLANNING & ANALYSIS
- Analysis of monthly financial statements – Sales, cost of goods sold, and expenses compared to budget
- Supports the strategic planning process, development of the annual plan, business forecasts and production of variance to actual results reporting.
- Supports development of financial and operating statistics of the Company to drive consistent performance accountability metrics and standards.
- Supports the analysis of ongoing operations, sales channels and Company operating results with the overall goal of driving continuous of improvement in results.
- Performs special projects or initiatives, as assigned.
“TEAMWORK”: SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS, AS REQUESTED
- Demonstrates understanding of expected role in team for given assignments.
- Works cooperatively with team members to accomplish work.
- Requests and provides assistance from/to team members as needed.
- Other financial reporting and tasks as required.
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
Experience: 3-6 years of progressive working experiences in accounting operation in a distribution or manufacturing environment preferred. Equivalent general business experience may be considered on a case-by-case basis. Foreign currency and international business experience a plus. Experience with NetSuite preferred.
Skills & Abilities:
- Experience with foreign currency and consolidated financial statements
- NetSuite, Excel, Tableau, & SQL experience ideal.
- Timeliness/accuracy/thoroughness in completing assigned work projects.
- Demonstrated professional attitude/demeanor
- Accuracy/thoroughness of information
- Understanding of the business issues at hand and their implications for the future of the business.
- Usefulness of recommendations/suggestions.
- Cooperation/teamwork demonstrated in carrying out assignments.
- Demonstrates understanding of expected role of team for given assignments.
- Works cooperatively with team members to accomplish work.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Interpersonal skills for effective work relations with other staff, outside auditors, vendors, etc.
- Strong math aptitude/computational and organization skills.
- Familiarity with the Company’s information management systems.
- Manual dexterity to operate computer keyboard, perform daily office operations, and utilize standard office equipment.
- Able to occasionally lift/carry up to 25 lbs.
The above statements describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and duties required of personnel so classified.
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