Talent Tuesday 12/12/23

Staff Accountant (JL)

Maple Grove, MN and open to hybrid positions

$70-75K perm placement

Industry Experience:  Manufacturing

Education:  BS Business Management

Career experience: 

Preparation of general ledger journal entries, with primary areas of responsibility including daily cash, payroll, accruals and prepaid expenses. 

Organize and track accruals & prepaid expenses to ensure accurate and timely preparation of financial statements and internal reports.

Participate in the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close process in accordance with GAAP.

Prepare accurate and timely general ledger account reconciliations.

Assist with preparation and review of financial statements. 

Provide management with monthly financial reporting packages, and investigate areas of concern for management and provide timely feedback. 

Prepare and provide the necessary workpapers for internal and external auditing firms for the completion of quarterly reviews and annual audits. 

Assist accounts receivable team as needed. 

Primary areas of support include application of customer payments, reconciliation of cash receipts to bank ledger, and invoicing for intercompany customer account

Software: Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Office, IQMS, Darkroom 

Availability: Immediately

Bookkeeper/ Accountant (KC)

Savage, MN and open to hybrid positions

$70-75K perm or temp to hire placement

Industries: 8 years of Retail experience

Career Experience:

Responsible for all A/R billing, collections and deposits, verification of deliveries with shipping documents. 

Set up a program for new customer credit privileges Responsible for A/P invoice entry, comparing bills to company's purchase orders, investigate anomalies working with suppliers, issue and mail check payments. 

Updated sales tax rates quarterly into the POS system, Windward

HR responsibilities included new hire onboarding, termination paperwork, managing benefit enrollment and renewals, process timesheets and biweekly payroll. 

Calculated monthly salesperson excel commission reports

Was an integral participant in a major acquisition of another lighting showroom into the company Received warehouse inventory transfers weekly, 

Received direct shipped inventory into the POS system, performed analysis freight charges

Software Experience:  Great Plains, Oracle, Kronos, QuickBooks

Availability:  Immediately

Accountant (SA)

Eden Prairie, MN and open to hybrid positions

$65-70K perm placement or TTH

Industries:  2 years of Manufacturing and 8 years of Banking experience

Career Experience: 

Generated imaging sales reports daily for eight individual branches along with a combined report for all branches depicting a detailed picture of the revenue and cost and reconciling the changes compared to the previous day

Prepared and consolidated financial statements, analyzed and reconciled accounts

Gained experience in adjusting journal entries based on analysis of variances leading to month end journal entries for accruals

Service contracts including additions and amortization of software and copiers

Well versed in preparing reports and journal entries portraying the insurance coverage of all employees 

Well experienced in monthly occupancy allocation journal entries reflecting the costs of rent, utilities, and insurance for fourteen different locations

Gained expertise in accrual journal entries including Accounts Payable Accrual, Equipment Accrual, Bonus Accrual, Concur Accrual and Commission Accrual for Imaging

Reconciled, analyzed and reviewed general ledger accounts

Creating ad-hoc adjusting journal entries for the sake of accuracy and reconciling all accounts after month-end reporting

Reviewing and approving expenses of all employees in the organization

Prepared reports and corresponding journal entries on a weekly basis

Education: MBA

Software: ERP, Concur, Excel

Availability:  Two weeks notice

Accounts Receivable Specialist (BB)

St. Paul, MN and open to hybrid positions

$70-75K perm placement

Industry experience:  Construction

Career experience:

Managing and Billing Contract Jobs using Dynamics NAV to Create invoices and other Documents that are provided to the customer.

 Prepare Documents for billing purposes including AIA documents, Certificates of Insurance and lien Waivers.

Investigate billing inquiries and opportunities and engage sales/management to resolve and effectively Bill.

 Engage in collections efforts to secure timely payments and apply appropriately to accounts. 

Communicate and Collaborate with executives to find possible process improvements and implement throughout the organization.

Continued Management of 800+ accounts and $15 million+ over 6 portfolios and 5 sub companies.      

Create and report multiple account reconciliations at period close.

Train incoming team members on processes and software systems to successfully manage their accounts.

Identifying risk within the portfolios and addressing appropriately to manage the collections and escalate as needed.  

Work multiple portfolios, including domestic and international accounts, and with major business partners. 

 Create and maintain reporting excels to address risk on a weekly basis.  

 Report to management a summary of identified risks to discuss process improvements on a bi-weekly basis. Work closely with multiple Andersen departments to communicate concerns and options for resolution.

 Adapted to the needs of the 19+ markets to account for local guidelines and products to ensure a smooth transition of customer data.  

Responded to 30+ incoming phone calls and conducted 160+ outbound calls a day to prospective customers regarding customers’ concerns and to help purchase windows.

Software: Sales Force, Dynamics NAV, IBM, Excel

Availability: Two weeks notice