What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Petco?
Create a healthier, brighter future for pets, pet parents and people!
If you want to make a real difference, create an exciting career path, feel welcome to be your whole self and nurture your wellbeing, Petco is the place for you.
Our core values capture that spirit as we work to improve lives by doing what’s right for pets, people and our planet.
- We love all pets like our own
- We’re the future of the pet industry
- We’re here to improve lives
- We drive outstanding results together
- We’re welcome as we are
Petco is a category-defining health and wellness company focused on improving the lives of pets, pet parents and Petco partners. We are 29,000 strong and operate 1,500 pet care centers in the U.S., Mexico and Puerto Rico, including 250 Vetco Total Care hospitals, hundreds of preventive care clinics and eight distribution centers. We’re focused on purpose-driven work, and strongly believe what’s good for pets, people and our planet is good for Petco.
Essential Job Functions
- Interact professionally and effectively through verbal and written communication with all professional contacts with emphasis on company interests
- Efficiently create complex documents and/or reports using spreadsheet, database, and accounting software in a timely fashion.
- Independently prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes.
- Analyze simple to moderately complex data to determine the appropriate course of action.
- Perform accounting duties and control activities to ensure financial results are reported without error.
- Research and analyze selective data sets and/or accounts pertaining to the duties of the specific functional area of accounting being performed.
- Prepare month-end journal entries, reconciliations, budgets, forms, reports, and schedules relating to the accounts in the specific area of focus.
- Effectively communicate with field partners, corporate support staff, and senior management, ensuring issues related to accounting are communicated to the appropriate impacted partners for action.
- Analyze problems, research the root causes, and overcome roadblocks to functional success.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- A 4 year college degree in Accounting/Finance or a minimum 3 to 5 years of work experience at the level of junior or staff accountant preferred.
- Communicate well in English and convey accounting concepts to non-accounting associates.
- Good interpersonal communications skills and interaction with other department personnel as well as senior management.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of most Microsoft Office Suite applications (e.g. Excel, Word, and Access) and 10-key by touch
- Must be accurate, detail oriented, proficient with personal computer based programs, and trainable on company specific systems
- Interact with peers and leaders of the business with poise and confidence.
- Analyze business decisions critically and engage in constructive conversations regarding alternative points of view when needed.
- Knowledge of the fundamentals associated with different functional areas of Accounting.
- Management of multiple concurrent projects/priorities at one time.
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Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.
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