What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. General Accountant position at Oakwood Systems Group Inc.?
This position will also be responsible for identifying potential areas of opportunity within the department and driving solutions to accomplish these. This offers a wide exposure to the various accounting functions within the Company. Much of the involvement will be in certain daily, monthly, and annual processes of the finance department, which include monthly and annual closings, budgeting, and physical inventory and may also include payroll, tax, and/or cost accounting functions as may be assigned.
Essential Duties:
Lead and take ownership of projects from start to finish. This includes identifying a project timeline and resources needed and managing the project to ensure it is completed accurately and timely.
Support other areas within the department when technical or capacity issues arise.
Prepare and process certain monthly and annual financial close processes in an accurate and timely fashion. May also include preparation of monthly financial statements for distribution to ownership and senior management.
Provide detailed account and activity analysis to prepare certain general ledger journal entries.
Prepare and maintain certain monthly analysis and reconciliations for the year-end financial close process.
Review and maintain audit schedules for the year-end audit process.
Participate in the budget process, including preparation of the appropriate schedules and analysis.
Ensure certain general ledger transactions are recorded and classified accurately and timely.
Other responsibilities may be assigned to include:
Responsibility for tracking and maintaining fixed assets.
Certain cost accounting responsibilities, including analysis of cost of sales variances, developing profitability analysis for the sales quoting process, analyzing product mix analysis, bill of material and routing analysis, etc.
Preparations and filings of corporate sales & use, property, franchise tax returns.
Support International divisions with monthly close.
Provide support when needed to the general accountants.
Assist in identifying areas of improvement and developing procedures within the team to improve efficiencies (Work Instructions).
Perform other duties and special projects as requested.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related Business degree.
Minimum of 5 years' experience.
Ability to apply a broad knowledge of accounting principles to a variety of corporate accounting activities ranging from routine daily transactions to complex analyses.
Fixed Assets and Payroll are key.
Competent in use of Microsoft Office applications and experience in Oracle software is a plus.
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