What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Accountant position at Simplehuman?
About Us
Day to day life has room for improvement.
That was our basic thinking when we founded simplehuman in 2000. Our mission is to bring high-performance and sustainable innovation to basic but essential tasks in our daily routine at home. Through new technologies, meticulous engineering and an obsession for improvement, we find new and better ways to achieve basic but important daily tasks.
About the role
simplehuman is seeking a detail-oriented, tech-savvy Associate Accountant to join our Accounting team.
This role can encompass AR and AP duties, GL accounting, and tax compliance. This is an ideal opportunity for a recent Accounting graduate or junior professional who is interested in learning operational accounting in a consumer products company.
This role requires adeptness at using technology and accounting ERP software, being pro-active and curious, with a strong desire to investigate and improve process flow. The ideal candidate will be given expanded scope in the long run. This is a full-time, on-site position based in our Torrance, CA office. This is NOT a remote position.
Accounts Receivable:
- Prepare, verify and code customer remittance
- Billing invoices
- Initiate collections on past-due accounts by sending bill reminders and contacting customers
- Handle customer requests, changes and credits
- Resolve invalid or unauthorized deductions or chargebacks by following deductions procedures
- Prepare commission reports
- Perform month-end AR closing
- Generate monthly aging reports for review by management
- Prepare ad hoc projects on revenue analysis
- Update and maintain pricings in ERP
Accounts Payable:
- Maintain and update vendor database
- Obtain approval for invoices received and enter or integrate into system via Concur
- Prepare payments: Checks, ACH, wires, and online payments
- Identify discrepancies and resolve billing issues
- Prepare ad hoc projects on expense analysis.
- Budgeting
Other Responsibilities:
- Improve monthly close process efficiency and speed
- General ledger accounting
- Prepare bank reconciliations
- Assist in monthly and quarterly sales tax reporting
- Assist in audit and tax reports and support as requested by the company’s external accounting firms
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting (must-have)
- 1-3 years of accounting experience
- Experience with Microsoft Great Plains a plus
- Sharp and analytical, with a strong sense for numbers, and a whiz with Excel
Culture
We are a mature company with the soul of a start-up. We value ingenuity, precise communications, fast iteration and scrappiness. Our teams are tight-knit with a work hard, play hard tradition – we take pride in individual and team success and push boundaries to make the best products. And we only build products we love to use ourselves.
- Cool office with full-court gym fitness activities/classes (basketball, yoga, volleyball, pickleball, krav maga, more) weight room
- Free weekly breakfasts birthday celebrations holiday parties/trips
- Great benefits Competitive compensation
- Generous simplehuman product discounts