ABOUT THE COMPANY

Founded in 1888, Lee Kum Kee, a Hong Kong-based global food company, specializes in creating condiments and sauces that promote Chinese cuisine worldwide. With more than 200 products to choose from, Lee Kum Kee takes the mystery out of cooking authentic and delicious Asian foods in the comfort of your kitchen. Lee Kum Kee is committed to providing authentic and innovative condiments and sauces featuring the highest quality ingredients. Armed with a unique management culture, stringent quality control, superb and innovative products, coupled with the century-long brand reputation, Lee Kum Kee has achieved unanimous recognition and won numerous prestigious awards. 

Lee Kum Kee (USA) Inc., a division of Lee Kum Kee International Holdings Ltd., has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Southern California with more than 300 employees. We are looking for the best and brightest talents to join our company and work together to bring the next level of success!

BENEFITS

• Medical, dental, life insurance covered by the company
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Two (2) weeks vacations
• Ten (10) paid holidays

POSITION SUMMARY

To perform this job successfully, this position will be responsible for completing accounts receivable and payable duties timely and accurately along with other miscellaneous accounting duties.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Handle incoming deposits, make copies of such and apply deposits in SAP.
• Apply authorized customer short payments in SAP and follow up on pending matters.
• Review and release customer credit memos.
• Resolve accounts receivable discrepancies with other team members. 
• Complete all phases of accounts payable including 3-way matching of invoices, purchase orders and packing lists.
• Input all vendor invoices to the computer system after matching.
• Generate computer and manual checks.
• Reconcile and solve accounts payable matters.
• Participate in mid-year and annual inventory sample counts.
• Able to work in a team environment to help out each other, respond to team member’s queries and rotate duties for cross training purposes as needed.
• Possess excellent written & oral communication skills to interact with other functions and resolve discrepancies.
• Ability to process large volumes of AR transactions while maintaining proper documentations with appropriate approvals.
• Perform other ad hoc duties such as monthly close and GL reconciliation or analysis as required or assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES 

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each major responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the major responsibilities.

 REQUIRED EDUCATION, SKILLS and EXPERIENCES

• This position requires a minimum AA degree and a minimum 2 years’ related accounting experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. 
• Computer literate in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
• Ideal candidate must be able to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. 
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Successful candidate must possess excellent communication and presentational skills both written and verbal and proven ability to work independently in cross-functional teams to achieve established goals.
• Bilingual in English & Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) is preferred but not required. 

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 

• Regularly required to use hands and fingers working at computer keyboard, cell phone, and office equipment). 
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. 

• The noise level in the work environment is light.
• The position is in an office setting with only office equipment noise.

It is Lee Kum Kee’s policy to seek and employ the most qualified persons in all jobs in a manner which will ensure equal employment opportunity as well as administer personnel actions in a manner as to not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.