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Essential Job Functions

The incumbent must be able to perform all of the following duties and responsibilities with or without a reasonable accommodation.

• Interact professionally and effectively through verbal and written communication with all professional contacts with emphasis on company interests

• Efficiently create complex documents and/or reports using spreadsheet, database, and accounting software in the time expected, varies based on the process

• Independently prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Effectively accomplish assigned duties/tasks through delegation of work to subordinates, then follow through on items ensuring accurate and timely completion of activities

• Manage the daily, weekly, monthly, and other activities of the staff in a fair and professional fashion, in accordance with applicable laws and company policies.

• Analyze internal and external data up to and including laws and regulatory statutes in order to determine the appropriate course of action.

• Ensure compliance of internal and external procedures and reports with all regulatory statutes (e.g., SOX 404 and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) regulations). Educate others as needed to ensure understanding of compliance requirements.

• Oversee the month end close process, up to and including the preparation of journal entries and account reconciliations ensuring they are completed accurately and on-time.

• Forecast and determine staffing needs, communicate and align on needs with senior leadership. As approved, hire appropriate resources to address current and future organizational needs. 

• Prepare and maintain budgets while providing solutions to meet budget variances.

• Provide accounting guidance to internal parties. The incumbent is held accountable for the accuracy of these accounting decisions as they are not subject to a detailed supervisor review.

• Manage monthly forecasts ensuring that they are prepared and appropriate challenges are addressed. Present forecasts to members of the Senior Management group and respond to missed forecast results to Senior Management.

• Manage team in the identification and communication of process inefficiencies. Make recommendations to automate functions and limit reporting/accounting risks around vendor contracts.

• Manage the review and approval of programs and contracts with emphasis on the financial impact to PETCO. Ensure accounting concerns with presented contracts/programs are communicated to business partners and recommendations on contract/program modifications are provided

Other Duties and Responsibilities 

• Initiate, participate and/or supervise duties and ad-hoc projects as necessary or assigned.

• Establish and maintain a clear list of operational goals and departmental controls, policies and procedures to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and accountability of the department

• Monitor and control personnel budget to ensure compliance and minimize overruns.

• Reviews and prepares work papers for quarterly and yearly audits.

Other duties include:

Accounts Payable Accounting (APA)

• Account recon and Journal Entry (JE) reviews and posting for AP.

• Monitor Accounts Payable (AP) accounts to ensure accurate balances and forecast/budget.

• Monitor AP Clearing account and handle existing balances.

• Manage Purchase-Card program.

• Manage My Expense Reimbursement system.

• Responsible for Close Analytics, Quarterly SOX certifications, Quarterly & Year-end External Audit requests

Accounts Payable Processing

• Audit daily check disbursements to ensure the integrity of payments.

• Oversee the identification of all term, freight or other special discounts available per invoice terms and structure department activities to take advantage of them.

• Oversee the expense invoice processing volume managed by our Offshore team.

• Provide reporting to other functional areas of accounting to validate their accounts and finding.

• Support all application implementations.

Petco Animal Supplies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or any other protected classification.