What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Filtration Group Corp?
Overview
Jonell Systems is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. Jonell Systems, markets, and sells filtration, separation and coalescing products into the refining, oil & gas, LNG and other sub-markets. A key element to growth is the successful promotion of Jonell products in each of these verticals.
Jonell Systems is part of Filtration Group. Filtration Group is a global market-leading provider of filtration consumables that drives innovation and delivers solutions across a broad spectrum of applications and end-markets, with a focus on life sciences, indoor air quality and industrial technologies.
The Staff Accountant plays a key role in supporting the financial health of the organization by performing routine accounting and bookkeeping functions related to customer accounts. This hybrid position (based in Fort Worth and Mineral Wells) assists in identifying and minimizing financial risks for Jonell Systems and provides critical general ledger support to the Controller.
Responsibilities
About the Role:
Primary responsibilities include and are certainly not limited to the following:
- Maintains customer master files in in ERP system
- Performs daily customer billing
- Processes credits for disputes and product returns
- Accesses online banking system, records and applies daily incoming cash receipts to open invoices
- Research disputes & communicates with the customer regarding open credits
- Manage AR aging and collections and related customer credit status
- Manage AR process while collaborating with other process owners
- Manage internal and external relationships
- Systems and identify emerging opportunities.
- Processes recurring monthly journal entries & accruals. Prepares journal entries related to outsourced services such as T&E and purchasing cards
- Completes account reconciliations & research discrepancies
- Confirms intercompany balances with trading partners and resolves differences with counterparties
- Reviews GL for accurate coding of transactions
- Supports the controller in the month-end close process
- Primary role is Accounts Receivable & GL related, however, will serve as a backup to Account Payable as necessary.
- Matches vendor invoices to purchase orders, contracts and receiving document.
- Verifies quantities on packing list receipts to quantities invoiced. Verifies price on purchase order to price invoiced.
- Verifies vendor invoice calculations.
- Resolves discrepancies between PO, invoice & receiving lists with the purchasing department and/or vendor
- Maintains Vendor master files in the ERP systems
Qualifications
SKILLS and EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related business discipline
- Minimum of 0-2 years of accounting and bookkeeping experience.
- Manufacturing industry experience preferred
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills; proficient in other Microsoft Office applications
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to investigate and resolve data discrepancies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong grammar, spelling, and proofreading abilities
- Proven ability to prepare and interpret reports, correspondence, and procedure documents
- Highly organized and detail-oriented; able to manage multiple priorities effectively
- Strong data entry accuracy and attention to detail
- Self-starter with the ability to work independently under general supervision
- Strong problem-solving and reasoning skills; able to address payroll and personnel-related issues effectively
- Excellent time management and multi-tasking capabilities in a team-oriented environment
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information appropriately
