Talent Tuesday Candidate News Letter 10/10/23
Take a look at these great Accounting Candidates who are new to the job market who are looking to make a move within the next two weeks and are ready to interview with you tomorrow! Don't wait too long before they are off the market! Schedule a time with me this week to go over their BG and to see if they might be a good fit for your team.
AP/AR Specialist (JZ)
North Minneapolis, MN open to hybrid schedules
$28/ hour perm placement
Industry: 5+ years of Construction, 3 years of Logistics, 10 years Non-profit industry experience
Education: AA Degree in Accounting
Career experience:
Accounts Receivable/Payable
Daily download credit card deposits and posting to customer’s accounts
Daily electronic check bank deposits and posting to customer’s accounts
Receiving customer credit card information for payments
Process batch order invoices for customers
Billing customer invoices
Process necessary credits for customers
Processing Accounts Payable invoices
Coding Accounts Payable invoices with proper general ledger account for payment
Research and resolve invoice discrepancies and issues
Correspond with vendors and respond to inquiries
Mailing check payments to vendors
Prepare bank deposits from customer payments
Software experience: NetSuite, QuickBooks, Great Plains
Availability: two weeks
Sr. AP Specialist (BW)
Lakeville, MN and open to onsite
$28/ hour perm placement or temp to hire
Industry: 5+ years of Manufacturing and Hospitality industry experience
Education: AA Accounting
Career Experience:
Process invoices and related accounts payable documents to ensure timely payment of Company obligations and facilitate accurate financial reporting utilizing an ERP system such as Matches invoices, receiving data and purchase orders comparing price, quantity, and descriptive data to ensure complete accuracy.
Communicates with other departments as well as outside vendors.
Resolves differences in price and quantity.
Takes credits against payments when material is returned.
Bank print checks, SUA credit card, Wire transfer, and Canadian ACH
Route non-three-way, two-way match and non-two-way match invoices for approval based on current delegation of authority policy, follow-up on invoices that are on the route to being signed, also posting invoices into the system (JDE & D365) ready for payment process.
Responsible for review and cleanup of aged received not vouchered report items to help ensure accurate financial reporting.
Work on AP email Pure Cloud Tool, answering different vendor inquiries for instance a payments enquiry, deductions, price issues, remittances.
Reconciling a vendor statement and resolving discrepancies.
Create A/P batches with accounting software (JDE) for the property tax check payment requests and make ACH payment.
Prepares journal entries for non-system created payments.
Working on a direct fraud chargeback, retail service chargeback, retail fraud chargeback, all website approved fraud chargebacks
Coordinate and communicate with vendors, customer service representatives and account managers as needed.
Being a backup person on Financial Reporting and Perform other duties and responsibilities as needed or assigned.
Software Experience: AS400, JD Edwards, Microsoft Dynamics AX software and D365, Medius flow.
Availability: Immediately
Sr. Property Accountant (KB)
Rogers, MN and open to hybrid schedules
$80K perm placement
Industry:3+ years of Property Management experience
Education: BS Accounting
Career Experience:
Supervises and works closely with team of four members of varying levels with a portfolio of over 70 properties
Monthly review of portfolio financial reports including Balance Sheet, Income Statement, AR, AP
Accurately and efficiently completes daily accounting tasks including bank recs, journal entries and review general ledger balances
Prepares yearly workpapers for audit packages and communicates with external auditors
Assists in leading and organizing department improvement project in 2023, managing team of four to five people
Reviews and approves vendor invoices for payment and processes wire requests
Answers questions and communicates with team members as issues, questions or training needs arise
Daily use of Microsoft Office and uses Excel functions to analyze, organize and navigate documents and information
Assists in the onboarding process and helps organize training of new team members
Organize and lead bi-weekly team meetings
Provides excellent customer service on a daily basis with lenders, property staff, external auditors, and across departments
Organized and paid property portfolio mortgages with wire or ACH
Creating corresponding payable, communicated with lender on as needed basis
Co-managed two summer interns
Organized projects, approved timesheets, provided training
Software experience:
Staff Accountant (MP)
St. Paul, MN and open to hybrid schedules
$70-75K perm placement
Industry: 3+ years of Property Management experience
Education: BS Accounting
Career Experience:
Provided monthly financial reports to clients timely and free of error.
Reviewed accounting structure and provided input on ideas for improvement.
Worked with clients to find solutions to questions in a timely manner.
Brought errors to near-zero in reporting and general bookkeeping.
Contacted customers to immediately find resolutions for escalated issues, including payment issues.
Collected and arranged financial information and entered details into the Intacct financial management system.
Reviewed accounting structures and procedures on a regular basis to identify areas in need of improvement.
Kept optimal quality levels to prevent critical errors and support team performance targets.
Reported financial data and updated financial records in ledgers and journals.
Reviewed general ledger entries and assessed accuracy.
Documented all cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses and line of credit transactions.
Compiled general ledger entries on short schedule Reviewed accounts, resolved coding areas and tracked recurring expenses for accrual entry.
Supported monthly reporting analysis to achieve validation of internal reports and to reconcile production operations and general ledger
Software experience: Avid, Excel, QuickBooks, MRI, Peachtree
Availability: Two weeks
Billing Specialist (SS)
Edina, MN and open to onsite
$26/ hour looking for perm or temp placement
Industry experience: 1.5 years of Property Management experience
Education: BS
Career Experience:
Manage invoices for 70+ properties, maintaining over 99% accuracy in correctly charged invoices
Consult 40+ clients, providing cost-saving solutions via billing options aligned with their preferences
Regularly employ Excel for manual charge calculations when automated system fails to perform
Address up to 10 daily inquiries received through company utility support line
Apply problem-solving to pinpoint unfamiliar billing discrepancies, addressing nearly 100 issues
Software: Enterra, Excel, Office Suites
Availability: October 2nd
Sr. AP Accountant (GN)
Eagan, MN and looking open to onsite
$70K perm placement
Industry experience: 6 years of Non-Profit, Oil & Energy
Career Experience:
Serve as the primary resource to employees and managers on any AP related issues and inquiries, while continuously improving and enhancing controls and efficiencies.
Compile, process, and maintain accounts payable records.
Verify approval on all invoices, check requests and employee reimbursements ensuring that invoices are not duplicates and have not been paid already.
Review all invoice submissions for the entire organization for accuracy and completion.
Work with managers across the organization to ensure expenses are being entered in timely and accurately.
Verify that all information, calculations, account distributions and coding are correct and that accounting policies are being followed.
Enter each document accurately, consistently, and timely into the company’s accounting software to ensure accurate payment, in accordance with organization policy.
Process daily and weekly check runs, including mailing payments and maintaining documentation.
Create positive pay upload submissions to the bank each week for accounts payable and manage the Bremer bank database for any issues.
Manage corporate credit card transactions
Work with outside vendors to ensure accurate setup of vendor profiles.
Verifies W9 information on IRS TIN matching program.
Processes W9 forms correctly in accordance with IRS regulations.
Produce, analyze, and review the month end AP aging report with reconciliation to the general ledger.
Prepare account reconciliations of accounts payable and accrual expense accounts within the general ledger.
Serve as a resource to employees and managers on any accounting related issues and inquiries, while continuously improving and enhancing controls and efficiencies.
Work with managers across the organization to ensure expenses are being entered in timely and accurately.
Software: Microsoft Dynamics (Great Plains) Cinch, Financial Edge, MS Visio, Microsoft Office, CBIZ
Availability: Two week notice