Accountant (Hybrid)

Company: Fishman Flooring Solutions
Location: Baltimore
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

Fishman Flooring Solutions, an industry leader and voted a Top Workplace for 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022is searching for the next great addition to our Accounting team. The Accountant position is a fantastic opportunity to make an impact with a growing, but stable, 100% employee-owned company.
Fishman Flooring Solutions offers employment with a family-oriented organization that has been in business for more than 104 years, and a competitive benefits package. Just some of the benefits include: health/dental/vision insurance; paid time off, paid holidays; profit sharing bonus plan; retirement/401k; and Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
This position will have the ability to work remotely, up to 60% of the time.
The responsibilities of this position include, but are not limited to:

• Filing monthly sales tax and use tax returns for numerous states and localities, including in-state and out-of-state returns, processing the payment, and recording the monthly entries
• Handling our Avalara sales tax portal and reviewing monthly sales tax reports, confirming and approving returns, and approving payments by Avalara
• Tracking of sales tax licenses, and certain tax forms such as exemptions, and obtaining forms when new licenses are required at both state and local levels
• Responsible for managing our Certify corporate credit card expense software which includes downloading data, updating Pivot tables, coding charges and entering the data in our payable records
• Responsible for handling numerous general ledger accounts and reconciling the monthly activity within these accounts during the month-end close process
• Management of the prepaid assets and related schedules, coordinating with other teams on renewals as necessary and completing the monthly journal entries
• Management of the corporate auto allowance program, the monthly auto allowance spreadsheet, and coordinating payments with the Accounts Payable team
• Filing quarterly Commercial Activity Tax and Gross Receipts Tax forms
• Processing customer refunds on an as-needed basis
• Handling the miscellaneous cash receipts as miscellaneous payments arrive
• Researching and correcting discrepancies and sending the customer invoice file to BillTrust daily
• Assist with the corporate Growth Incentive plan, which will include but is not limited to, contract creation, monthly tracking and recording of necessary accruals, processing payments and working with a variety of employees at all levels within the company
• Handling corporate credit applications requested from potential vendors
• Working closely within the Accounting department, as a team, to review various entries and other items, as well as provide backup during absences (employees will be cross-trained)
• Responsible for several accounting-related functions, to include, but is not limited to:
  
  • Various month-end tasks such as monthly general ledger account reconciliations, journal entry creation and review, and account analysis
  • Assist in review of accounts payable invoices
  • Assist with year-end related accounting tasks The ideal candidate will possess:
    • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting required
    • Minimum of 3-5 years relevant accounting experience required
    • Strong Excel skills with the ability to compute formulas and create PivotTables preferred
    • Highly detail-oriented, analytical, organized, and a solid team player is a must as you will be working with many other employees at all levels within our company
    • A high interest in analyzing general ledger accounts and investigating potential discrepancies
    • Ability to multi-task and prioritize a variety of responsibilities
    • Skilled in self review with the ability to review your own work and look for process improvements within the day to day activities
    • High degree of professionalism and ability to maintain confidentiality
    • Ability to handle sensitive and confidential matters with discretion and tact
    • Hours are 8am-5pm Monday-Friday with some overtime expected during the month-end close process
    • Once fully trained, the employee will have the potential to work a few days a week remotely dependent upon performance (hybrid schedule)
    • Background and credit check will be required

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