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Staff Accountant
Position Type: Full-time, in office
We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Staff Accountant to join our finance team. As a key member of the accounting department, the Staff Accountant will be responsible for maintaining accurate financial records, supporting month-end and year-end closing processes, and ensuring compliance with accounting principles and company policies. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of accounting processes, excellent analytical skills, and a commitment to accuracy and integrity.
Key Responsibilities
Account Reconciliation:
- Perform daily and monthly reconciliations to ensure all transactions are accounted for: Bank, Credit Cards, Vendor statements, AR aging, and others as assigned.
- Investigate and resolve discrepancies promptly.
Accounts Payable and Receivable:
- Process invoices daily from vendors.
- Match POs to invoices and reconcile for entry.
- Manual entry of invoices without a PO.
- Work with receiving and purchasing departments as needed for discrepancy variances.
- Work with vendors as needed.
- Prepare payments including checks, ACH transfers, and credit cards weekly.
- Maintain accurate vendor records including payment types and W-9s.
- Record cash receipts to customer accounts.
- Assist with invoicing and collections.
- Maintain accurate customer contacts to ensure invoices, W-9s, and tax exemption forms are delivered on time.
Audits and Compliance:
- Conduct internal audits on point-of-sale transactions.
- Ohio BWC True-Up audit.
Taxes:
- Calculate and file Sales/Use Tax return.
- Calculate and file Quarterly CAT Tax.
- Prepare 1099’s at year-end.
Collaboration:
- Identify areas for process improvement, propose solutions, and collaborate to implement them.
- Must work well with others in a team environment, interacting with the Receiving Department, Customer Service, Sales Team, vendors, and customers.
- Maintain a clean and organized work area, ensuring documentation is properly filed and retained.
- Accounting projects as assigned.
- Provide backup to other administrative positions when necessary.
Skills and Competencies:
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail and problem-solving skills.
- Time management skills – consistency and proactiveness are essential for the position.
- Thorough knowledge of general accounting and controls, ability to review financial reports for discrepancies.
- Detail-oriented, deadline-driven, organized individual able to handle multiple tasks while working independently or as part of a team across multiple departments.
- A proactive and independent work ethic, a passion for continuous learning and process improvement, taking ownership of assigned tasks.
- Advanced skills in Excel and Microsoft Office.
- Experience using QuickBooks.
- Must be flexible and willing to take on new roles and responsibilities.
- Highly motivated and dedicated to contributing to the growth and success of the company, along with their career.
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing with internal and external counterparts.
- Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures.
- Active listening skills.
- Trustworthiness and discretion regarding confidential company information.
- Willing to work beyond normal scheduled work hours as necessary.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field preferred.
- High school diploma or GED required.
- 2 years of experience as a staff accountant or a similar finance role preferred.
- General understanding of accounting process and financial principles.
- Proficient in accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, SAP, Oracle).
- Advanced skills in Excel.
Soccer Village celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.
- Work in a clean, pleasant, and comfortable retail store location setting.
- While performing the duties of this position, the individual is regularly required to talk or hear.
- This individual frequently is required to use hands, fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, and controls.
- This individual is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- The individual must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Note:
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the individual(s) in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.
All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.
This outline above does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at-will” relationship.
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