Sr. Accountant (Bilingual in Mandarin Chinese/English)

A Wholesale & Distributor of consumer goods company is looking to hire an experienced Senior Accountant. The ideal candidate possesses leadership capabilities, a solid operational and technical accounting background, and works proactively to drive results. This person is a self-starter, flexible, has a high level of integrity, and is action and goal-oriented in a fast-paced, team-oriented, collaborative environment.

I. Summary:

The Accounting Supervisor maximizes return on financial assets by establishing financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems.

• Overseas Daily Financial Transactions to Companys Financial System
• Protects Assets & Monitors Financial Condition
• Guides Financial Decisions & Provides Advice
• Leads Annual Budgeting and Achievement
• Responsible for Compliance and Managerial Guidance
• Serves as Functional Expert for System Administration
• Management of Accounting Staff & Job Results

II. Result Oriented Responsibilities:

Overseas Daily Financial Transactions by:

• Managing accounts payable and accounts receivable to ensure transactions are executed in accordance with Company standard operating procedures.
• Ensuring all financial transactions are properly booked to the General Ledger in a timely manner.
• Creating a Cash Flow Forecast & Monitoring daily variances for resolution
• Overseeing the flow of cash and financial instruments.
• Monitoring bank, investments, and credit card accounts for cash flow and fraud prevention and ensures that account reconciliations are performed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Establishing and maintaining highly professional relationships with customers and vendors to provide assistance when necessary to resolve issues.
• Managing accounting related contractors and/or outside business entities.

Protect Assets & Monitors Financial Condition by:

• Communicating and coordinating accounting policies, practices, and procedures with department and company managers, vendors, reporting agencies, clients and customers.
• Establishing procedures for custody and control of assets, records, and securities to ensure safekeeping.
• Establishing best practice financial reporting to conduct variance analysis to identify and resolve adverse conditions to Companys financial performance.
• Reviewing collection reports to determine the status of collections and serves as check & balance authority to the Credit & Collections department by escalating issues.
• Performing cost analysis and recommending process improvements for all functional areas of the Company.
• Studying and actively Formulating, Monitoring, and Auditing safety controls to prevent fraudulent activity and transactions both in Companys internal and external systems and accounts.

Guides Financial Decisions & Provides Advice by:

• Establishing best practice weekly, month-end, quarterly, and annual reports that are systematic and focused on the particular success factors for Companys business.
• Identifying and resolving problems and inconsistencies in financial performance, transactions, reporting, or standard operating procedures, and determining the appropriate corrective actions.
• Performing cost-benefit analysis to compare operating programs, review financial requests, or explore alternative financing methods.
• Analyzing business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations, to project future revenues and expenses to provide advice.

Leads Annual Budgeting and Monitoring by:

• Establishing the schedule & process for annual company budget creation
• Providing resources and process to collect, analyze, and consolidate financial data across all Company functional departments as input to the Budget.
• Analyzing monthly department budgeting versus actual results to maintain expenditure controls.
• Interpreting budget directives and establish policies for carrying out directives
• Summarizing budgets and submitting recommendations for the approval or disapproval of funds requests.
• Monitoring department budget performance on a monthly basis and escalating areas of concern.

Responsible for Compliance and Managerial Guidance by:

• Studying existing and new legislation to advise Management on needed action or changes to standard operating procedures.
• Supervising financial and accounting processes to ensure adherence to Company, Federal, State, Local legal & financial laws.
• Preparing financial and regulatory reports required by law and ensuring timely payment of all duties, taxes, and fees in accordance with federal, state, and local rules.
• Supervising the preparation of auditing materials and ensuring that proper supporting documentation for all transactions is obtained and properly filed and stored for research, audits, and compliance reporting.

Serves as Functional Expert for Systems Administration by:

• Administering, Supporting, and Guiding the formulation, implementation and maintenance of the financial systems in accordance with system documentation and industry best practices.
• Ensuring financial systems are processing transactions and reporting in accordance with current GAAP and International Accounting Standards.
• Serving as the functional expert on the Company financial systems and performing system administrator maintenance.
• Ensuring that the financial systems setup specifically related to product line item tracking is optimum and is current with Companys ongoing business activities.

Management of Accounting Staff & Job Results by:

• Supervising responsibilities in accordance with the Companys policies and applicable laws.
• Interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Determining work procedures, work schedules, and expediting workflow.
• Assigning duties and examining work for accuracy, neatness, and conformance to best practices and standard operating procedures.
• Studying and standardizing procedures to improve efficiency of team members.
• Effectively communicating with employees and maintaining a positive working relationship when addressing issues and proposing solutions.

Perform additional duties and projects as required.

III. Requirements:

• Experience in product inventory and manufacturing/distribution is strongly preferred
• Microsoft GP Dynamics experience preferred
• Proven ability in strong analytical skills
• Excel power user including formulas, macros, pivot tables etc.
• Bi-lingual in English and Mandarin is REQUIRED
• 5 years' experience at the Managerial Accounting level with a minimum of 3 years in a Senior Accountant position
• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance or Business Administration

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