Accounting Specialist

Accounting Specialist – Coppell, Texas

Successful Manufacturing company in Coppell Texas has immediate role for an experienced Accountant with extensive experience processing Payroll, reporting Taxes, D365 Support, insurance reporting, Account Payables, Account & Bank Reconciliations, Invoice Analyzing/Researching, Journal Entries & cashflow forecasting, and communicating financial information to management in a timely and accurate manner. Candidates MUST be proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, proficiency with Excel and spreadsheets (including pivot tables and v-lookups).

Key Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility for processing biweekly payroll, preparing payroll journal entries and performing payroll reconciliations.
• Manage full-cycle Accounts Payable, including invoice processing, vendor payments, and vendor account reconciliations.
• Process biweekly payroll and maintain employee payroll records and updates.
• Perform month-end close activities, including journal entries and account reconciliations, and bank reconciliations and prepare financial reports.
• Intercompany transactions and cashflow forecast.
• Review, validate, and record vendor invoices and assist in resolving invoice discrepancies and disputes. Process vendor payments, maintain accurate payment entries.
• Reconcile vendor accounts, balance sheet ledger accounts, bank accounts and manage month-end close activities.
• Maintain inventory and WIP, fixed asset register and disposal and prepare monthly depreciation and related journal entries.
• Maintain employee payroll records, process new hires, terminations, compensation changes, and benefits/deduction updates.
• Responsible for weekly cashflow and other financial reporting.
• Maintain sales tax and payroll tax registrations and ensure compliance with state and local tax regulations.
• Assist with internal and external auditing and quarterly annual tax filing.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, accounting standards, and internal control requirements.
• Process intercompany transactions, reconciliations.

Qualifications

• Five years' experience as a qualified Accountant with Tax accrual, Accounts Receivable/Payable, Payroll, Inventory and WIP.
• Experience performing audits for accounting data and the preparation of related financial reports, Federal and Local Tax, Social Security, Financial reporting and analysis.
• Able to analyze and communicate qualitative and quantitative data
• Maintain records and prepare reports and correspondence while always maintaining confidentiality.
• Ability to develop, build and maintain strong interpersonal relationships with management, staff and external stakeholders
• Follow company values including being a team player, passionate, professional, committed, honest and treat people with dignity and respect
• Be Self-motivated, reliant and forthcoming, multi-tasker, work well under pressure and be able to meet established deadlines
• Excellent communication (written and verbal), presentation and negotiation skills
• Able to solve problems & make decisions in line with organizational philosophies and practices, execute and meet deadlines, ensuring & emphasizing attention to detail
• Able to collect and organize accounting data, interpret its significance and prepare accurate financial reports
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Outlook, Word, proficiency with Excel and spreadsheets (including pivot tables and v-lookups).
• Bi-Lingual in Spanish is a plus