Job Summary
We're looking for someone with 4-5 years of experience as an Accounting Specialist who thrives in a fast-paced financial environment. In this role, you'll be responsible for managing the full cycle of accounts payable, invoice processing, and payment processing to keep our financial operations running smoothly. You'll also play a key role in account reconciliation and billing, ensuring accuracy and compliance across the board. If you're detail-oriented and enjoy working with numbers, we'd love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
Manage day-to-day accounting transactions accurately and on time
Accounts Payable – enter vendor bills, verify approvals, and cut checks
Accounts Receivable – process orders, issue customer invoices, receive and apply payments, and send out statements
Payroll – Assist with processing payroll and other HR related matters
Reconcile bank statements and assist with cash management matters
Maintain accurate, well-organized records within the company’s accounting/ERP system
Assist with basic month-end closing tasks under the direction of the department head
Ensure timely bank payments and monitor online banking activity
Help maintain pricing and inventory records in the accounting system
Support the accuracy of accounts payable and receivable balances and investigate discrepancies as they arise
Reinforce financial-data confidentiality and comply with company financial policies, procedures, and internal controls
Qualifications
Concentration – Can accurately enter, track, and reconcile large volumes of financial detail, and is able to understand and work confidently within the company’s accounting and ERP software. Keeps intricate track of data without losing accuracy.
Trustworthiness & Integrity – Handles checks, payments, and confidential financial information with complete honesty and discretion. Understands that every transaction must be recorded truthfully and that careless or inferior work is dishonest.
Initiative – Is able to enthusiastically apply knowledge to new tasks, takes ownership of the full accounts payable and accounts receivable cycles, and engages in continuing education to keep up with changes in technology and best practice.
Interpersonal skills – Is able to work with others to ensure that processes are carried out correctly. This collaboration includes coordinating with vendors, customers, purchasing agents, and the department head, and devising remedies to problems as they arise.
Math skills – Is comfortable with the arithmetic and reconciliation logic needed to balance accounts, verify figures, and track financial data with precision.
Speaking skills – Can communicate clearly and courteously with others. Is able to explain balances, invoices, and account questions and to relay instructions, including to vendors and customers who have little or no accounting knowledge.
Collaborative skills – Can work closely with team members and the department head to keep records clean, receive accounting software technical support, and encourage financial frugality.
“Eat the Career” – Loves the company more than his/her own career and is willing to change, improve, and modify himself/herself to meet the advancing needs of the company. This takes humility, servanthood, collaboration, and professional will.
Confidence & Growth – Can manage himself/herself with little or no supervision and make wise, independent decisions based on company values; sees change as an opportunity to grow.
Time management skills – Uses time efficiently, meets recurring deadlines such as bill runs, invoicing, statements, and month-end tasks, and teaches others the same.
Problem solving skills – Even-tempered rather than panic-driven; can thwart problems before they occur; does not place blame; emphasizes solutions, not problems; uses problems as a means for growth of the company and fellow personnel.
Team working skills – Can create trust in people; unites people around a common goal; allows healthy debate in a respectful atmosphere; loud with praise; loves to celebrate; recognizes what is right more than who is right and what is wrong more than who is wrong; positive attitude, not negative; always searches for and applies the best ideas regardless of their source.
Continuous quality improvement – Never takes shortcuts; strives for accuracy; excellent problem solving; finds the best solutions at minimum cost.
Requirements
- analytical skills
- accuracy
- attention to detail
- 2-5 years of experience with Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, and pivot tables
- 1-2 years of experience with accounting or ERP software
- 1-3 years of experience with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- 2-5 years of bookkeeping or accounting experience
- 2-5 years of accounts receivable experience
- 2-5 years of accounts payable experience
Nice to Have
- Associates or Bachelors degree in accounting, finance, or related field
About Us
Our Need
At our company, we manage our own books, payables, receivables, payroll, and reconciliations in-house. We are seeking an accounting professional who is eager to learn, take ownership, and bring accuracy and integrity to the financial heartbeat of the company. The ideal candidate will be detail-driven, trustworthy, and motivated to grow while mastering our systems and helping steer the company with sound financial stewardship.
Our Company
We are an inventive, manufacturing company serving the security, home automation, building, electrical, and gate markets.
Our Vision
We exist to glorify God by facilitating safety, supporting Christian endeavors, and enabling employee growth.
Our Mission
To create and build the best vehicle detection equipment in the world.
Our Strategy
To use innovative engineering and process-driven manufacturing techniques to create and build highest quality products with 100% product testing to ensure reliability and longevity.
Our Culture
We are a place of professional excellence, collaborative teamwork, and gracious hospitality.
Our Core Values
1. Family. Being a family makes us passionate for the safety of others; after all, they’re part of the family. This promotes trust, loyalty, and love. It’s the glue that binds us to customers, community, and co-workers.
2. Honesty. Honesty demands we create useful and quality-rich products. We believe inferior products are dishonest. Integrity rules our relationship with customers before and after the sale.
3. Drive. At our company, we are enthusiastic, responsive, and intuitive. We are driven to create solutions and remove obstacles. We listen to customers’ needs and innovate to meet them with proven reliability.
Our History
We were the first in the market to combine magnetometer technology and home automation. We did that in 1975 when we bought rights to the name and product originally invented by Dr. William Flook. In the 1990’s we expanded into the gate industry.
Our Future
We are a financially sound company. We occupy part of a 65,000 sq. ft. facility into which we envision incremental and realistic growth. We believe with the right team members—those who embrace our vision, mission, and culture—we have endless opportunities.
Particulars
Compensation
Compensation will be commensurate with employee’s attitude, quality of work, experience, achievements, and output. This includes base salary, raises, holidays, five PTOs (personal time off), vacation, profit sharing, IRA investing and possible stock value options (see Handbook).
Evaluations
Quarterly official assessments and evaluations will be conducted. These assessments will be used as a basis for differentiation, meritocracy, compensation, and bonuses.
Non-Disclosure/Non-Compete Forms
NDA and non-compete forms will be provided by management as instructed by our legal team. Required signatures will be maintained.
Company Policy
For company policy, please refer to the Company Handbook.
Pay: $25.00 - $26.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
Experience:
- Microsoft Excel: 2 years (Preferred)
- accounting or ERP software: 1 year (Preferred)
- GAAP: 1 year (Preferred)
- bookkeeping or accounting: 2 years (Preferred)
- AP and AR: 2 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
