Bilingual Accounting Specialist, NW Houston, 77041
Hourly Pay: $25.00 per hour
Hours: Monday- Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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In-Office

The Accounting Technician is responsible for performing accounting, administrative end bookkeeping duties primarily related to the Order-to-Cash (O2C: including Customer Billing, Cash Application and A/R and Collection), the Procure-to-Pay (P2P: Supplier Invoice Processing, Supplier Account Reconciliation, A/P Disbursement and supplier Master Record Maintenance, the Record-to-Report (R2R: general accounting support of the finance month-end close process including accruals, amortization, inter-company transactions, and G/L account reconciliation) process cycles; Fixed Asset administration (including in-service and disposition of assets and depreciation schedule maintenance); monthly Sales and Use Tax filing; and business partner support and collaboration for domestic and/or international CFSS operation by performing the following tasks and duties. 

Duties:
• Obtains and verifies specific invoicing requirements for customers and specific procurement and payment requirements for material and service suppliers.
• Processes customer shipments for invoicing, including reviewing tax status, applicable freight charges and any special invoicing requirements, and submits invoices to customers.

• Processes customer credits on accounts and applies credits to invoices when appropriate

• Processes customer refunds for overpayments upon request
• Vendor invoice processing (Purchase order and non-purchase order based) including match principals.
• Work with business partners to resolve invoices and/or unvouchered discrepancies in pricing or other invoice hold issues.

• Applies Sales Tax and Warranty credits to customer accounts as needed

• Maintains customer advance payment sub-ledger and applies prepayments to sales orders upon receipt. Verifies payment upon shipment and completes invoicing.

• Applies customer cash receipts to outstanding invoices and applies miscellaneous cash receipts to appropriate General Ledger accounts. This includes lockbox deposits, cash received and deposited locally, and incoming wire and/or ACH payments

• Process credit card payments through credit-card processing website upon shipment or during collection efforts on past-due accounts.

• Respond to billing questions from both local and international customers and internal Sales and Project Management staff.
• Supports Credit and Collections Department in research of customer discrepancies when needed.

• Support Director, Corporate Tax with monthly Sales and Use Tax calculation and filing and on-site account administration for all operations (domestic and international).
• Prepares and enters monthly journal entries (such as A/P and labor and benefit accruals, bad debt reserve true-up, inter-company transaction initiation and clearing) to support the month end closing process.

• Support maintenance of company's CapEx control files, tracking status of CIP items, timely and accurate recording of newly added assets based on "in-service" protocol, maintaining FA ledger, recording asset depreciation, and recording transfer and/or disposition of assets.
• Perform reconciliation of assigned general ledger accounts.

•Assists Director-CFSS and/or Sr. Corporate Accountants with various general ledger account analysis and research to ensure accurate balances.

•Assists on special projects.

•Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed within established guidelines and timelines.

Qualifications:
• Minimum of an associate degree in Accounting or Finance and (3) three years accounting experience, including month end, A/R and A/P.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish required

 

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Computer Skills: 

• MS Office, Excel, OCR software, ERP experience, JD Edwards