Senior Accountant

Petco Petco · Retail · SSC

Senior Accountant responsible for month-end closing, financial statement preparation, General Ledger monitoring, account analysis, and developing new accounting procedures. This role acts as an accounting business partner, performing complex statistical and financial analysis, and driving business process improvements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Participate in the month-end closing process and assist in preparation of the internal, total-company financial statement package.
  2. Monitor entries in the General Ledger to ensure appropriate allocation, determine if reclassifications are required, explain variances, and analyze various accounts to avoid year-end audit exposure.
  3. Develop and recommend new procedures, processes and policies for the accounting operations of assigned function.
  4. Serve as accounting business partner to assigned function on issues that are highly complex.
  5. Analyze, research and reconcile selected accounts and cost discrepancies.

Skills

Required

  • 4-year degree in Accounting/Finance or equivalent experience
  • Intermediate Accounting knowledge
  • CPA certification
  • 3-5 years accounting experience
  • Experience in 2 or more accounting functional areas
  • Verbal and written communication skills
  • Proficiency in spreadsheet, database, and accounting software
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks
  • Analytical skills
  • Problem-solving skills

Nice to have

  • Coached or mentored junior accounting partners

What the JD emphasized

  • highly complex
  • highly complex statistical and financial analysis
  • think and act independently
  • independently prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks
  • moderately to highly complex data
  • accounting duties and control activities
  • Research and analyze selective data sets and/or accounts
  • business process improvement including root cause analysis
  • overcome roadblocks to functional success