Bilingual Accounting Specialist

Job Description

Job Description

Bilingual Accounting Technician - NW Houston, 77041

Hourly Pay : $25.00 per hour

Hours : Monday- Friday, 8 : 00 AM - 5 : 00 PM

Temp to Hire

In-Office

The Accounting Technician is responsible for performing accounting, administrative end bookkeeping duties primarily related to the Order-to-Cash (O2C : including Customer Billing, Cash Application and A / R and Collection), the Procure-to-Pay (P2P : Supplier Invoice Processing, Supplier Account Reconciliation, A / P Disbursement and supplier Master Record Maintenance, the Record-to-Report (R2R : general accounting support of the finance month-end close process including accruals, amortization, inter-company transactions, and G / L account reconciliation) process cycles; Fixed Asset administration (including in-service and disposition of assets and depreciation schedule maintenance); monthly Sales and Use Tax filing; and business partner support and collaboration for domestic and / or international CFSS operation by performing the following tasks and duties.

Duties :

• Obtains and verifies specific invoicing requirements for customers and specific procurement and payment requirements for material and service suppliers.
• Processes customer shipments for invoicing, including reviewing tax status, applicable freight charges and any special invoicing requirements, and submits invoices to customers.
• Processes customer credits on accounts and applies credits to invoices when appropriate
• Processes customer refunds for overpayments upon request
• Vendor invoice processing (Purchase order and non-purchase order based) including match principals.
• Work with business partners to resolve invoices and / or unvouchered discrepancies in pricing or other invoice hold issues.
• Applies Sales Tax and Warranty credits to customer accounts as needed
• Maintains customer advance payment sub-ledger and applies prepayments to sales orders upon receipt. Verifies payment upon shipment and completes invoicing.
• Applies customer cash receipts to outstanding invoices and applies miscellaneous cash receipts to appropriate General Ledger accounts. This includes lockbox deposits, cash received and deposited locally, and incoming wire and / or ACH payments
• Process credit card payments through credit-card processing website upon shipment or during collection efforts on past-due accounts.
• Respond to billing questions from both local and international customers and internal Sales and Project Management staff.
• Supports Credit and Collections Department in research of customer discrepancies when needed.
• Support Director, Corporate Tax with monthly Sales and Use Tax calculation and filing and on-site account administration for all operations (domestic and international).
• Prepares and enters monthly journal entries (such as A / P and labor and benefit accruals, bad debt reserve true-up, inter-company transaction initiation and clearing) to support the month end closing process.
• Support maintenance of company's CapEx control files, tracking status of CIP items, timely and accurate recording of newly added assets based on "in-service" protocol, maintaining FA ledger, recording asset depreciation, and recording transfer and / or disposition of assets.
• Perform reconciliation of assigned general ledger accounts.
• Assists Director-CFSS and / or Sr. Corporate Accountants with various general ledger account analysis and research to ensure accurate balances.
• Assists on special projects.
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed within established guidelines and timelines.

Qualifications :

EDUCATION and / or EXPERIENCE :

Computer Skills :

Salary : $25