Staff Accountant
Start Date: Immediate
Location: Remote
Compensation: $14-$18/hour
Company Overview
Scientific Safety Alliance (SSA) is a rapidly growing, founder- and employee-owned company that is revolutionizing the experience of regulation-mandated services in the scientific instrument space. We provide vital testing, inspection, and calibration services to pharmaceutical, medical device, and research companies across the U.S. With 12 acquisitions completed and over 4,000 customers—including our first in Puerto Rico—we’re excited to continue our growth. Recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S., we’re looking for talented, driven professionals to join us on this journey.
Position:
As SSA grows at a rapidly expanding pace, we will continue to look to hire the best and brightest. Our talent acquisition strategy is to hire intelligent, driven, and results-oriented professionals that will help us stay on this rocket ship level trajectory.
This position is critical as he/she will work closely with our VP Finance and Controller managing the day-to-day accounting duties while also playing a major part in streamlining and automating our operational accounting. This position has an excellent opportunity for growth as we are one of the fastest growing companies in the world.
Responsibilities:
Accounts Payable:
- Daily A/P inbox maintenance including ERP vendor invoice entry
- Investigation and resolution of vendor/purchase order discrepancies
- Weekly vendors check payment processing and ACH/Wire processing preparation
- Maintenance and control over employee credit cards including monthly reconciliation
- Maintenance and balance petty cash monthly
- Maintain and ensure monthly master vendor invoice schedule is complete
- Weekly resolution of unmatched invoices and/or receivers
- Weekly analysis of purchase price variances along with communicating with appropriate departments
- Balance commissions monthly and enter related vendor invoices
- Preparation and issuance of annual 1099 to applicable vendors
Cash Management and Forecasting:
- Daily customer payment application within NetSuite in accordance with the bank detail report.
- Reconcile bank previous day detail report to general ledger cash account daily
- Update the “cash forecasting and management tool” daily on a rolling 30 day forecast schedule
General Ledger:
- Ensure accounts receivable and payable subledger aging reports balance to the general ledger
- Maintain and update prepaid and accrual schedules along with adjusting monthly entries as necessary
- Prepare reconciliations of all balance sheet accounts along with adjusting entries monthly
- Prepare and execute monthly journal entries and recurring journal entries
- Assist with annual audit/review preparation and auditor inquiries
Operational Accounting Automation – Process Streamlining
- Work with accounting and finance team to help automate manual activities.
- Streamline processes to save time and increase efficiency.
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Support the integration of company acquisitions and consolidations
- Over the next 24 months, we might acquire another 20+ companies, and this individual will working closely in making each acquisition a smooth transition.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, required
- 3+ years of previous experience
- Must be able to successfully prioritize and manage daily requirements concurrently with email inquiries, in-person inquiries, meetings and other requests both internal and external
- Strong understanding of accounting principles, GL reconciliation, and cash management
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, etc.)
- Bilingual – Spanish & English – Required
- NetSuite experience preferred but not required
- M&A experience a plus but not required