Staff Accountant, Impact Automation, Columbia, MD
Impact Automation -
Columbia, MD,
US
Staff Accountant
Date Posted: 2024-05-08
Job description
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Impact Automation is looking for a Staff Accountant to support our rapid growth and increasingly complex operations. You will be an integral part of Impact's business operations team, with a focus on managing general accounting and financial processes for our company. The ideal candidate is comfortable being hands-on, competent at financial data analysis, and thrives in the fast-changing world of growth stage companies.
About us
Impact Automation is a fast-growing company which supplies industrial equipment to the E-Commerce market. When you click "buy-it-now," Impact Automation technology is used to bring packages and parcels from the warehouse to your door. We are looking for smart, hard-working folks who want to shine in a small company environment. At Impact, we all wear lots of hats, work together, and count on each other. Candidates must have technical skills and will be expected to contribute right away.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Preferences
What you need to succeed
Benefits
Physical Requirements
This is a full-time job working in an office Monday through Friday. The successful candidate will be required to provide documentation demonstrating the right to work in the United States upon hire and subject to the E-Verify program.
Full-time
Description
Impact Automation is looking for a Staff Accountant to support our rapid growth and increasingly complex operations. You will be an integral part of Impact's business operations team, with a focus on managing general accounting and financial processes for our company. The ideal candidate is comfortable being hands-on, competent at financial data analysis, and thrives in the fast-changing world of growth stage companies.
About us
Impact Automation is a fast-growing company which supplies industrial equipment to the E-Commerce market. When you click "buy-it-now," Impact Automation technology is used to bring packages and parcels from the warehouse to your door. We are looking for smart, hard-working folks who want to shine in a small company environment. At Impact, we all wear lots of hats, work together, and count on each other. Candidates must have technical skills and will be expected to contribute right away.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and update accounting records and files
- Ensure transactions are being posted to the correct projects
- Examine tax policies and handle tax payments and returns, including both sales and income tax in multiple states.
- Post transactions and categorize records in the general ledger (e.g. by assets, liabilities and expenses)
- Reconcile bank statements
- Support month-end and year-end closures
- Prepare documents for audits
- Apply new accounting policies and ensure compliance with rules and regulations
- Providing project managers and clients with timely financial reports and budgets, as well as project forecasts.
- Assisting the accounting manager as needed.
- Report to the Accounting Manager and work to improve financial processes
Requirements
Preferences
- The ideal candidate will have accounting experience at a high growth startup or business unit
- Advanced experience with accounting policies and compliance
- Experience in a construction, contracting, or other job costing environment is useful
What you need to succeed
- Have 3-5 years of accounting experience
- Knowledge of accounting and corporate finance principles and procedures
- Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
- Excellent use of Microsoft Office Word and Excel; very good with spreadsheets
- Knowledge of an accounting information systems
- Knowledge of Sales tax compliance software, i.e. Avalara is a plus
- Good math skills
- High degree of attention to detail and multi-tasking
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Confidentiality and integrity
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in accounting, business accounting, or finance
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) plan with 3% company contribution
- Profit sharing plan
- 4 weeks of PTO
- 6 paid holidays
- Monthly phone allowance
Physical Requirements
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
This is a full-time job working in an office Monday through Friday. The successful candidate will be required to provide documentation demonstrating the right to work in the United States upon hire and subject to the E-Verify program.