What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant position at Imperial Dade?
Overview
Imperial Dade is the leading distributor of foodservice packaging, facilities maintenance supplies and equipment in the U.S. As a provider of customized supply chain solutions, the company serves customers in many business-to-business market segments including supermarkets, healthcare facilities, universities, and restaurants. Founded in 1935 and headquartered in New Jersey, Imperial Dade serves more than 80,000 customers through a footprint of 80 branches.
Western Paper Distributors is a division of Imperial Dade with locations in Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Western Paper has a rare opening for a Senior Accountant. In this role you will be responsible for reconciling general ledger accounts, performing month-end close activities and producing company financial statements. This position is for a self-starter who understands debits and credits, the importance of reconciliations and has a financial background to review, dissect and analyze data and trends.
Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities include:
- GL Accounting.
- Maintain all accounts
- Reconcile to sub-ledgers
- Reconciliations
- Month-end close process
- Recording transactions from secondary systems into the general ledger.
- Post closing entries.
- Review for errors / corrections
- Prepare monthly schedules and reports
- Variation / opportunity analysis
- Financial analysis
- Assisting with annual audit. Provide supporting workpapers, and resolving findings, discrepancies and non-compliance issues.
- Budgeting. Assist with budget creation, variance analysis, and monitoring.
- Sales tax – Understand and apply sales tax rules to ensure proper tax is charged on customer invoices. Resolve sales tax questions and issue sales tax adjustments as needed.
Additional Responsibilities include:
- Provide support to AP as needed
- Unclaimed property processing
- Process development and improvement
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of Accouting
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance required.
- GAAP
- Sales tax knowledge
- Independent work (part of a team but most work is done independent of others on the team)
- Ability to prioritize and plan weekly activities to hit deliverables.
- High attention to detail.
- Advanced Excel skills
- Strong communication skills
- One-on-one meetings to communicate findings from analysis
- Clear communication with outside parties (Outside vendors, Corporate FP&A, Customers, etc.)
- Clear and concise written communication.
At Imperial Dade, we offer an exciting environment in which to work, learn, and grow professionally. We are excited to continue to invite talented individuals with a passion for excellence to join our team. As a family-owned and operated company, we value our people and strive to create rewarding career opportunities by offering competitive salaries and benefits, 401K, Life Insurance, and a generous Paid Time Off Package.
Imperial Dade is an EEO Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, age, disability (physical or mental), family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors.
