Staff Accountant

Job Description

Job Description

Nextran Truck CentersStaff Accountant - Fultondale, AL

Are you looking to further develop your profession into a career? Are you driven by opportunity? Nextran Truck Centers is hiring! Our Employees Benefit from:

Career Paths || Network of 30 Dealerships || Disability Insurance || Paid Time Off (2wks 1st year) || Nextran Paid Life Insurance

Family Centered Values || Medical and Dependent Care FSA || 401(k) Retirement Plan with Match || Company-Paid Holidays || EAP

Great Medical, Dental, & Vision Benefits || Social Responsibility Opportunities || 28+ Years of Industry Experience || Professional Growth

Summary

The Staff Accountant is responsible for performing general ledger account and bank statement reconciliation, preparing journal entries, creating and maintaining periodic reporting, assisting with annual budgeting, and other related financial activities.

Essential Duties

• Reconciles bank account, verifies deposit
• Maintains the general ledger
• Assist with the month-end closing process, conducting research and making correction journal entries for account discrepancies, prepares closing journal entries, and posts accrual entries.
• Utilizes accounting system, billing system, spreadsheet, and presentation software.
• Perform various complex account analyses and reconciliation.
• Demonstrates effective communication and problem-solving skills.
• Responsible for reconciling all A/P statements from vendors and calling for copies for unpaid/past due invoices.
• Research discrepancies and aged items on scheduled accounts.
• Reconcile and record Mack and Volvo parts statements.
• Cut manual checks as needed and requested by managers.
• Performs other duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting required.
• Minimum 2 or more years’ experience in accounting or automotive accounting preferred.
• Proven track record of good communication skills.
• Proficient in spreadsheet software (Excel) and Word.
• Accounting software knowledge preferred.
• Ability to meet deadlines and prioritize tasks; work efficiently with minimal supervision.
• Detail oriented.

Physical Demands

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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:

• Regularly required to talk or hear, communicate with others.
• Frequent use computer, phone, copier/scanner and other office equipment in the course of a day.
• Required to stand and sit for prolonged periods at a desk and working on a computer.
• Frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; must be able to reach above shoulder level to work, reach with hands and arms; bend, stoop, twist, lift, reach, push, pull, grasp, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, grasp during the course of employment.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move 10 - 20 pounds and will be expected to push, pull, lift and/or carry items occasionally.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while
performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals
with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is average.

Essential duties and related qualifications may be changed as needed to meet the changing demands of the organization. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Nextran Truck Centers is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and a Drug Free Workplace.

We are a network of commercial truck dealerships committed to providing the best products and services through highly skilled associates who are focused on delivering the lowest life-cycle cost to our customers. Spanning the Southeast and Midwest United States, we provide sales, parts, and service for several leading brands, including Mack, Volvo, Isuzu, GMC, Ford, Hino, and Kalmar Ottawa. EEO Employer