Staff Accountant

Title: Staff Accountant

Location: Remote - Nationwide

time type

Full time

job requisition id

R-986

Job Description:

Schellman is a Top 50 CPA firm and a leading provider of attestation and compliance services. Our professional services focus on security and privacy audits, assessments, and certifications.  Schellman has become one of the largest cybersecurity assessment firms in the United States without providing any traditional accounting services.  We are an accredited multi-framework ISO Certification Body for security, privacy, business continuity, and quality; a globally licensed PCI Qualified Security Assessor and a top provider to clients serving the federal DoD space as a leading FedRAMP 3PAO and the first assessment firm authorized as a CMMC C3PAO. Our specialty and expertise remain in providing best in class Cybersecurity and IT Audits and Attestations. Our culture, approach with clients, and dedication to our values has led us to consistently be a Great Places to Work certified company and rated as a Best Firms to Work For by Accounting Today and a Glassdoor Best Places to Work. We deeply appreciate our employees, as shown by our first core value – People Come First. This is demonstrated in our culture, benefits, and how we handle business. Come see what makes Schellman special!

JOB SUMMARY 

The Staff Accountantis responsible forbilling, collections,assistingwith daily accounting processes, and month-end close procedures.This position provides financial support to all departments across the Company. This position reports to theManager of AR,AP& Cash.

This is a Remote based role, but candidateis required tobelocatedintheUS Central Time Zone or Eastern Time Zone.

Essential Functions:

• Processesdaily billings and ensure invoices are appropriately posted and delivered to customers. Resolveshighly complexand sensitive service-related billing issues.

• Workscross-functionally to review customer contracts and ensure proper billing set-up adhering to underlying system requirements and policy standards

• Proactively manages all aspects of customer collections

• Processes customer cash payments and accurately post to customer accounts

• Responds to all forms of inquiries from internal and external customerspertaining toinvoices,customerpayments,discrepanciesand contract clarification requests

• Accountable for assignedmonth-end closing activitiessuch aspreparation of journal entries and account reconciliations

• Assistswith financial audit activities

• Performs quality assurance activities to review the accuracy of bills

• Work closely with the finance team to help improve overall processes, drive process efficiencies and improve/monitorinternal controls for tasks within billing and collections

• Serves as backup onaccounts payable activity,including coding supplier invoices, processing settlement runs, andmaintainingsupplier accounts

• Serves as backup for cash activity, including manual bank reconciliations

• Assistwith other duties and special projects as needed

• Serves as backup for various accounting functions

• Responds,in a timely manner, to all forms of inquiries from internal and external customers

• Resolves issues arising from actions or events involving administrative functions

 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Understanding of best practices for accountsreceivable,US GAAP, generalledgerandaccountreconciliations

• Judgment to plan,prioritizeandaccomplishgoals. Ability to think ahead and be proactive. Able to manage multipleconcurrentprojects.

• Meetscommitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personalstandardsand stays focused under pressure

• Communicates effectively both verbally and in writing, createsaccurateand punctual reports, delivers presentations, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills

• Tackles problems and takes independent action, seeks out new responsibilities, acts on opportunities, generatesnew ideas, practices self-development

• Dealswith others in a straightforward and honest manner, is accountable for actions, supports Company values, and conveys good news and bad

• Meets all team and individual deadlines and responsibilities,listensto others and values options, helps meet goals and promotes a team atmosphere

• Ability to adapt approach to the situation, work through conflicts, gain trust and persuasively influence outcomes

• Ability toproblem solve,take ownership of workstream tasks,and deliverresults

• Maintains extreme confidentiality, both internally and externally,withall matters

• Seeksto understand problems thoroughly before implementing solutions.Asksquestions to clarify requirements when ambiguities are present.

• Adapts to new environments and changing requirements. Pivots quickly as needed. When coached,respondsto need &seeksinfo from other sources.

• Shows commitment and dedication to shrink learning curve

• Flexibility to work overtime during busy times

• Ability to travel to Tampa Headquarters or other meeting locations occasionally

 

Education,Work Experienceand Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, business management, or other relevant subjectarea, or equivalent years of experience directly related to the duties and responsibilities specified

• 2 or more years of combined finance and accounting experience

• Knowledge of US GAAP, auditing and accounting principles,standardsand practices

• AdvancedproficiencywithMicrosoftExcel

• Workday FinancialsExperience a plus

• Experience with accounts receivable functions, including cash entry, collections, and 3rd party billing portals (i.e.Ariba, Coupa) a plus

• Experience with a professional services organization a plus

• Experience with private equity backed organization a plus

• Experience with a middle market organization preferred

Schellman is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) and strongly supports diversity in the workplace; therefore, providing equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, including arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable law. 
 

At Schellman, we strive to provide a flexible and balanced environment and therefore offer the opportunity to work remotely, unless otherwise stated in the job requirements. Connecting, collaborating and continuous education are also highly valued and therefore we require some travel annually for our Internal Service Delivery roles, which can include in-person training, team meet-ups, and strategy meetings. Service Delivery team members will also be required to travel based on business and client needs.