What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Accountant position at Ranpak?
Summary
The Staff Accountant is responsible for and assisting with customer billing, accounts receivable analysis, journal entry preparation, account reconciliation, intercompany account reconciliation, internal controls & external audit support, payables and receivables, general ledger analysis, financial statement preparation and other related activities for Ranpak.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Prepare and analyze customer billings and help trouble shoot as necessary
- Analyze accounts receivable account to help manage collection activity as necessary.
- Prepare and post monthly journal entries, including cost allocations and intercompany transactions
- Post journal entries as directed by the Financial Controller
- Analyze balance sheet and income statement accounts
- Prepare and review analyses to ensure that all balance sheet accounts are complete per audit requirements
- Interact with personnel from other departments & business units to finalize month-end balances
- Prepare work papers as needed by internal and external audits
- Process manual invoices, credit memos and apply cash receipts as necessary
- Apply General Ledger account codes where necessary
- Maintain supporting schedules for General Ledger accounts
- Entry of month-end General Ledger accruals and allocations
- Processing of A/R and A/P documents
- Assist on other finance & accounting projects as requested
- Learn nature of Ranpak’s business in order to build a partnership with non-finance leaders
- Other projects and tasks as assigned by supervisor
Qualifications
- BS/BA degree in finance, accounting, business or other related discipline; accounting degree preferred
- Professional certification such as CPA or similar preferred
- One to five years of related experience in a public-company environment
- Intermediate level skills – Microsoft Office suite, particularly Excel and Word
- Working knowledge of the General Ledger – journal entries, account reconciliations etc.
- Good organizational skills
- Detail-oriented
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