General Ledger Accounting Specialist - Tricon Solutions

Location: 400 Bertha Lamme Drive, Cranberry Township, PA - 16066

Type: 4 months contract on W2

Schedule: hybrid-3 day in the office. Must be able to come in on Tuesday's since that is when majority of the team works in-office.

Summary:

As an Analyst, for our client's Architectural Coatings Stores, you will support the retail store operations in the United States and Canada (USCA). This business is large and sophisticated, which will require you to work with a substantial volume of transactions in an efficient, detailed manner. If you excel at multi-tasking, driving efficiency within a team, and can build trust among your colleagues, as well as the many departments the team collaborates with; this role is for you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Compile weekly AR Adjustment data, ensuring accuracy and adequate approval, and post to the general ledger (goodwill, tax adj, etc.)
• Research discrepancies between goods received not invoices and intransit liability discrepancies. Import and export data to a secondary reconciliation tool (TRECS) monthly.
• Monitor the price override process and perform sample audit procedures monthly. (These are the differences between Xstore GR and SAP IR) by PO and clear balance to the PPV acct)
• Process prepaid deposits requested by the retail store locations
• Research and correct GRNI
• Record monthly journal entries including accruals, reclassifications and account analysis corrections while processing prepaid deposits requested by retail store locations.
• Prepare account analysis of key and high-risk general ledger accounts.
• Correspond with individuals outside of the department as needed.
• Assist with operational improvements to streamline and simplify processes.
• Help with other team tasks as needed

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or equivalent education with 2+ year of proven analytical, finance, accounting, or business experience
• Experience using Excel is required.
• Experience using SAP is desired.
• Very strong analytical and organizational skills
• Familiarity working with large data sets
• Ability to problem solve independently

NOTES FROM HIRING MANAGER

Manager reviewed the resumes again and the experiences and length of time at a job were reasons the other candidates were not a good fit. Also, many of them have AP, AR, Payroll, Cash Application and Tax which is not related to this role. Additionally, they lack experience with ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, etc.) and we extensively use SAP.

we are looking for a candidate with corporate experiences like

• Use of multiple databases (Atlas, SAP)
• Reconciling general ledger accounts
• Use of Excel functions like VLOOKUP, Pivots, and maybe macros
• Account reconciliations of general ledger accounts
• Create and process journal entries