Staff Accountant

Sumitomo Electric Interconnect Products, Inc., a Sumitomo Electric Group company, is looking for a   Staff Accountant   in San Marcos (North   San Diego Area). This person will provide a multitude of services such as performing a variety of complex bookkeeping, accounting, and clerical tasks.   They will be expected to apply accepted accounting procedures to the preparation and maintenance of accounting and other records, and preparing financial, statistical, and management reports. This person will report to the Accounting Manager.

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We are located in San Marcos, CA, and are looking only for local candidates, to perform work on site. Relocation not offered.

Job Summary

The Staff Accountant is responsible for maintaining general ledgers, records, financial reports, preparation and analysis of budgets, performs a variety of complex bookkeeping, and filing. Other roles include preparing financial, statistical, and management reports.   This position requires involvement in company/department projects, maintenance of schedules, and provides support while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced working environment that is quiet.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Duties include the following (other duties may be assigned):

The first work week of every month includes key accounting deadlines and corporate financial reporting   (3-day close).   To avoid   missing critical reporting   dates and imposing an undue burden on the other members of the Accounting team, absent   unusual circumstances, planned   time-off in the Accounting department must be scheduled and taken outside of the first week of every month.   There will be overtime to meet the monthly closing due dates.

Print daily company cash   deposit:   Citibank on-line incoming   wires

Lock box on-line checks

Review and report on daily gross margin and negative margin results to   management.

Process daily credit memos received from Accounts Receivable, Customer   Service, RFR’s,   ICO’s   and from   RMA’s.

Cross-trained to review and reconcile daily labor   Manufacturing   direct hours to   payroll hours.

Review daily manufacturing journal entries and post to general   ledger.

Review daily inventory adjustments and cycle counts for coding, validating   quantity, descriptions and dollars in order to post to the general   ledger.

Cross-trained to maintain files on the fixed assets by keeping records, tagging assets,   and reconciling to balance sheet accounts after receiving invoices from Accounts   Payable.

Process monthly company non-A/R billing by preparing invoice for all non-tubing sales activity such as: office lease, employee support, or non-conforming billing.

Daily review of JD Edwards enterprise system integrities to ensure all active company modules sub-ledgers are in balance to the general ledger and consequently to   financials.

Daily account analysis of purchase price   variances.

Assist in updating of standard purchase prices for inventory in JD Edwards and   Japan’s PCM (Product Component Management) environment as   needed.

Set-up company item numbers for new inventory to be purchased and/or manufactured via JD Edwards and Japan’s PCM   software.

Review work order bill of materials and router cost for supervisory review and   update.

Review, compute and prepare monthly commissions for direct and point-of-sale (POS) sales.

Review and validate monthly ship & debit credit requests for unit price   decreases.

Prepare monthly account reconciliation and analyses for all balance sheet accounts   and expense accounts as   required.

Prepare monthly bank reconciliation analysis.

Print cancelled   checks.

Prepare and balance monthly labor and overhead applied   activity.

Assist in analyzing and determining inventory reserves for old lot, slow-moving, non- moving,   negative gross margin and lower-of-cost or market.

Plan and analyze the monthly accounting close by preparing journal entries   and subsequent analysis of financial results, including the preparation of reports for management   review. Monthly reconciliation of inventory and   work-in-progress.

Multiple journal entries for cash, pre-paid, accruals, non-A/R, receipt routing, inventory and   others.

Complete management reports such as gross margin, sales,   manufacturing   data amongst other reports.

Assist in reviewing monthly work order   variances.

Perform annual transfer pricing analysis for supervisory   review.

Assist in yearly audits performed by outside auditors, internal SEI audits and   government audits.

Assist in developing the company   budget.

Projects as assigned: work and meet   project deadlines while working daily, weekly, monthly tasks. Ability to utilize power point to present on projects …