Accountant

Job Description

The primary function of the Accountant, North America is to ensure the accurate recording of financial transactions. This role supports the General Accounting and Reporting team in the various accounting functions, including month end close, monthly balance sheet reconciliations, SOX, and other reporting requirements, in addition to ad-hoc project support for North America and CSI Corporate functions.

Overall, an Accountant plays a crucial role in maintaining the financial health of an organization by effectively managing and ensuring accurate and complete recording and reporting of various aspects of Financials.

The Accountant will coordinate and collaborate with other departments such as FP&A, Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable to gather information, resolve discrepancies, and communicate accounting-related matters.

Critical to the position is also the compliance with Internal Controls, working with management to follow all relevant regulations / standards.

Responsibilities

• Ensure complete and accurate recording of all transactions in accounting system.
• Prepares documentation with proper format and consistency, allowing reviewers to easily follow and understand the flow of transactions.
• Complying with expected due dates for Month-end close and B/S Reconciliation activities.
• Plan and coordinate with other departments such as accounts receivable and accounts payable to gather information, resolve discrepancies, and communicate cash-related matters.
• Monthly reconciliation of various accounts to ensure accuracy and identify any discrepancies on a timely basis.
• Investigate and resolve any discrepancies or issues related to transactions promptly and effectively.
• Complete monthly Flux and other required analysis.
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes, improve efficiency, and enhance the accuracy of the accounting procedures.
• Support efforts to help drive and maintain internal controls/processes including development of controls as the business needs change.
• Manage and monitor accounts, ledgers, and reporting systems and ensure compliance with appropriate GAAP standards and regulatory requirements as well as internal financial policies.
• Perform additional duties as requested by management- such as process improvement projects.
  
  
  

Travel:

Travel less than 15% domestically.

Qualifications

• 2 years of accounting experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Experience with ERP Systems, i.e., Microsoft Dynamics, SAP or Oracle.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft suite of products to include Excel, Word, Outlook.
• High level of interpersonal, written, verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work cross-functionally to achieve desired results.
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality and professional skepticism.
• Functional knowledge of financial reporting systems and methodologies.
• Initiative; originate productive actions without specific instructions; generate new ideas, processes and approaches to meet business needs.
• Excellent judgement and creative problem-solving skills including negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Structure questions, information and ideas in a concise way and assumes follow up responsibilities with different stakeholders for issues or questions, making sure that direct managers are included in relevant meetings and communications.
• Understands the importance of setting goals, being transparent and establishing regular communication to manage clear expectations.
• Flexibility: someone who is adaptive to frequent changes in priorities, organization, and strategy; flexible to deadlines with short lead times.
• Self-reliant, good problem solver and results oriented. Entrepreneurial team player who can multi-task.
  
  
  

Our Benefits:

As an employee of CooperSurgical, you'll receive an outstanding total compensation plan. As we believe your compensation goes beyond your paycheck, we offer a great compensation package, medical coverage, 401(k), parental leave, fertility benefits, paid time off for vacation, personal, sick and holidays, and multiple other perks and benefits. Please visit us at www.coopersurgical.com to learn more about CooperSurgical and the benefits of becoming a member of our team.

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