Wholesale/Retail Accountant - APM

Overview

The Wholesale/Retail Accountant – APM reconciles fuel and freight invoices, works with customers and APM staff to maintain an accurate payment process and ensures the integrity of APM’s general ledger and financial statements, performing month-end and year-end closing activities, while ensuring compliance with GAAP and good internal controls.

MFA Oil Company is an Equal Opportunity/Drug-Free Employer.

Responsibilities

• Process fuel invoicing and reconciliation daily
• Draft customer accounts and provide sales staff with past due reports for collection
• Reconcile freight billing and maintain freight rate tables
• Communicate effectively and timely with customers and APM personnel to resolve issues and provide requested information.
• Participate in month end fuel close process, reconciling accounts and preparing adjusting entries.
• Validate automated daily credit card processes; identify and resolve issues by working with APM personnel to ensure proper payment.
• Prepare assigned account reconciliations by required deadlines, research outstanding reconciling items
• Maintain translation tables that support automated data processes, including updates for new customers, products, and other required information.
• All MFA Oil employees are expected to know and adhere to company and position specific policies and procedures. While this job description contains the primary duties of the position, employees may be expected to perform other duties as assigned.
  
  

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or related field
• Proficient in MS Office products
• Knowledge of automated accounting systems and procedures
• Good working knowledge of GAAP
• Strong oral and written communication
• Strong analytical skills including critical thinking and problem-solving
• Ability to perform detailed work with accuracy
• Ability to adapt to nonstandard situations and apply sound judgment when established procedures do not fully address the issue
• Ability to meet deadlines with a high degree of time management skills
• Ability to speak, read, write, and understand the English language to communicate accurately and effectively with customers, coworkers, and supervisors.
• Ability to meet Company requirements, including successful pre-employment background check and drug test.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Knowledge of PDI Enterprise Solutions
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, growing organization and rapidly changing environment
• Ability to work independently and on a team
• Ability to multi-task and context-switch effectively between different activities and teams
  
  

About Mfa Oil Company

MFA Oil Company, formed in 1929, is a farmer-owned cooperative and a leading propane retailer in the United States. The company supplies fuels, lubricants, and propane to customers in Missouri, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Through a subsidiary, MFA Oil operates Break Time convenience stores in Missouri; a Big O Tires franchise in Missouri, Arkansas, and Kansas; a solar panel installation company, BluSphere Energy; and APM, a wholesale fuel distributor.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to invest in you! We offer a comprehensive benefits structure for regular full-time positions, including competitive wages, paid time off, paid company holidays, and the opportunity for eligible employees to share in company success through profit sharing and/or performance incentives. Health benefits include medical, dental, vision, an employee assistance program and company-paid life insurance, and short- and long-term disability. Our retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with a company match offering pre-tax and Roth options.

OUR CULTURE

The core values of MFA Oil are aligned with our purpose and are the cornerstones upon which our culture is built.

• Put Customers First
• Respect Everyone – Demonstrate high regard or show special attention to customers, coworkers, vendors… everyone you come in contact with.
• Provide Excellent Service – Go the extra mile to ensure our customers are happy and satisfied with our products and services.
• Deliver on Your Promises – Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it. Every time.
• Be Tenacious
• Give Your Best – Always give your best effort and seek to improve every day.
• Never Settle – Settling can lead to compromising on effort and quality of work. Find a way forward and don’t settle for “It can’t be done.”
• Work Passionately – Passion accelerates your abilities, propels you to overcome obstacles and shows customers and co-workers that you care.
• Lead by Example
• Do the Right Thing – When we let honesty and integrity be our guide, we will always be headed in the right direction.
• Take Ownership – Each of us must be accountable for ourselves, our colleagues, our customers and our company.
• Act with Empathy – When we recognize and understand each other’s challenges, we communicate better and grow stronger as a team.
  

GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT

We believe there’s always room to learn and grow, from entry-level employees to senior leaders. Opportunities exist for internal advancement and professional development including on-the-job training. Educational expense assistance is available for employees seeking to continue their education ambitions aligned with their employment within the company.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.