Under minimal supervision, the Accounting Specialist is responsible for various functions related to maintaining and analyzing financial records within the Company. This role plays a crucial part in ensuring the accuracy and efficiency of financial transactions and reports, with a main focus on accounts payables. The person in this role must have strong math, accounting, computer, and organizational skills.

Qualities

• Possesses a passion to help team members
• Strong customer relations
• Detail-oriented
• Reliable, follows through on commitments
• Strong process and planning orientation
• Goal-oriented, task driven
• Enjoys being part of a team as well as leading one
• Balances team’s needs with goals of organization
• Outstanding written, verbal, presentation and organization communication skills

Essential Duties & Functional Responsibilities Required

Required Knowledge Skills & Abilities

The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions

• Performing tasks safely

• Ensuring area housekeeping requirements are met
• Abiding by all OSHA rules and LOGISTEED America, Inc. safety practices
• Meeting established procedures and productivity, safety and quality standards
• Meets attendance & punctuality standards
• Communicate both orally and in writing in a clear and concise manner
• Process accounts payable invoices
• Process general and business expenses per company guidelines
• Prepare and process wires
• Process credit card payments
• Reconciliation of accounts
• Process accounts receivable application forms and electronic documents including updating and filing
• Prepare and enter journal entries.
• Review, audit, and correct work and escalate any issues that cannot be resolved to supervisor
• Analyze account and financial data.
• Assist with preparation of monthly and year- end accounting closing and periodic audits, including preparing Profit & Loss statements
• Support internal and external audit requirements.
• Assist in resolving any AR and AP issues with operation team and department members as they arise
• Ability to stay organized and follow up on pending issues while meeting deadlines
• Adaptable to constant change within the organization and department
• Build knowledge of department policies & procedures in order to improve efficiencies as well as timely and accurate results.
• Additional duties as assigned within and outside the normal essential job duties

Non-Essential Functions

• Expedite courier arrangements (Fed-Ex)
• Collaborate with other team members to respond timely to branches and vendors
• Filing, maintaining and distributing accounting documents, records and reports
• Depositing of checks and verifying amounts against invoices
• Any other duties as assigned by manager or supervisor

Competencies

• Problem Solving/Analysis
• Communication Proficiency
• Personal Effectiveness/Credibility
• Multi-tasking
• Ethical Conduct
• Advanced in MS Word and Excel
• Proficient in Accounting software
• Proficient in time management

Supervisory Responsibility

• Not applicable

Preferred Qualifications, Required Knowledge Skills & Abilities and Working Conditions

Previous Work Experience

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in General Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business Administration or equivalent work experience
• Relevant accounting certification, preferred but not required
• Equivalent work experience will be considered

Experience Requirements and Preferences

• Proven strong business acumen
• Proficient in Microsoft applications
• Bilingual in English and Japanese is a plus
• Must pass credit, drug screening and criminal background check

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret complex data
• Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints
• Ability to escalate issues that require supervisor’s attention

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States. List any visa requirements, H1-B sponsorship, special clearances, etc.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This is a largely sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk or sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, bend crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move objects up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

LOGISTEED America, Inc. is an equal opportunity organization. We abide by all applicable equal opportunity laws and regulations. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

PAY TRANSPARENCY NONDISCRIMINATION PROVISION - The company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.

Information is obtained as part of an employee’s essential job functions if: (1) access to compensation information is necessary to perform that function or another routinely assigned business task, or (2) the function or duties of the position include protecting and maintaining the privacy of employee personnel records, including compensation information.

Nothing in this statement prevents LOGISTEED America, Inc. from disciplining, terminating, or otherwise taking adverse action against an applicant or employee because they have violated another workplace rule. LOGISTEED America, Inc. fully supports the above pay transparency nondiscrimination statement.

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