What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Group 1 Automotive, Inc.?
Overview
Staff Accountant, Corporate Accounting
Group 1 Automotive, a Fortune 250 company, owns and operates 200 automotive dealerships and collision centers in the United States and United Kingdom.
Group 1, seeks to hire a Staff Accountant to join its Corporate Accounting Team.The position reports to Group 1’s Manager of Corporate Accounting. We offer our associates a team environment, great benefits and ongoing training and support. If you are in alignment with our Company Core Values of Integrity, Transparency, Professionalism, Teamwork, and Respect - now might be the time for you to accelerate your career as part of the best company in automotive industry. Apply today or refer a qualified friend!
In addition to competitive pay, we offer our associates the following benefits:
- Health, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Paid Time-Off
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Vehicle Purchase Program
- Professional work environment, with job training and advancement opportunities
Description of Responsibilities:
The responsibilities of this position primarily include:
- Review daily banking activity and ensure transactions are properly coded, entered and reconciled in Oracle Cash Management module.
- Review and post F&I providers statements and manage payments
- Post AP invoices and process payments
- Prepare Medical activity, premiums and reserve journal entries and reconciliations
- Prepare payroll entries and reconciliations
- Assist Senior Accountant and Manager with research and ensuring inquiries have been responded to correctly and in a timely manner
- Ensure activity in third party systems are reviewed, coded and posted to the general ledger.
- Frequent communication with other corporate departments, Business Support Center and dealership personnel regarding various Corporate related transactions.
- Preparation of various journal entries into the Company’s general ledgers
- Daily review of specific Corporate Accounting email inboxes including responding to inquiries, prioritizing tasks, rerouting inquires to the appropriate Corporate Accounting personnel and archiving emails and documents into the appropriate folders.
- Process intercompany postings for inclusion monthly intercompany statements
- Preparation of monthly account reconciliations and summary reports.
- Ensure compliance with established SOX controls
- Assist with the preparation of audit schedules and PBCs
- Assist Manager with quarterly legal reconciliation by managing legal confirmations and updating relevant support documents.
- Participating in the 1099 process at Year End
- Help with the Fixed Assets as needed
- Assist with Corporate P&C (Property & Casualty) process as needed
- Participate in special and ad-hoc projects as needed
Desired Qualifications:
The candidate must be:
- The candidate must be a team-first oriented professional, willing and able to work the necessary hours to accomplish their assigned tasks, especially during month- and quarter-end close process.
- Effective communication skills are vital, including the use of both verbal and written forms of communication.
- Ideal candidate is motivated, committed, detailed-oriented, well-organized and forward thinking.
- Minimum, a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (or Finance degree with accounting emphasis), a firm understanding of accounting principles, at least 2-3 years of relevant experience at a large corporation and/or public accounting firm.
- Ideally, the candidate would have intermediate working knowledge of cloud-based accounting software products, accounts receivable, accounts payable, general accounting and Microsoft Excel. The Company recently transitioned to Oracle Cloud.
*All applicants must pass pre-employment testing to include: background checks, MVR, and drug testing in order to qualify for employment*
Group 1 Automotive is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
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