Accountant-AR
Summary
The Accountant - Accounts Receivable provides technical accounting expertise to the Accounting and Finance team by fulfilling accounting related tasks. Key job responsibilities include working with customer invoices, contracts, credit memos, account reconciliations, and compiles information as necessary for outside auditors and tax service providers. The Accountant - Accounts Receivable also assists with assigned special projects.
What You’ll Do
Contract Review and Interpretation:
- Interprets contracts and invoices with available knowledge and implements credit memos within scope of authority
- Compares customer invoice entries to contracts and sales orders and makes corrections as needed
- Reviews and interprets sales contracts to confirm agreement details
- Communicates with the Sales team on all new contracts and customers to ensure invoice matches intent behind the order
- Ensures proper recognition of revenue is captured on organization's financial statements
Technical Accounting Expertise:
- Provides accounting expertise in assigned area of accounts receivable
- Handles queue of customer and sales team inquiries and forwards to appropriate team member for response; researches and responds to more complex questions; escalate to higher levels as needed
- Completes assigned account reconciliations at month-end and forwards to controller for review
- Demonstrates and applies strong accounting knowledge, acumen, and technical expertise
- Handles outside auditor questions and provides support to outside auditors, tax service providers, and other project personnel as requested
What You'll Need
Minimum Qualifications
- 2 years prior operating accounting experience with a Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- Associate degree in accounting with 5-7 years of significant progressive operating experience in accounting would be considered in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA certification
- Analytical ability to interpret contracts and policies
- Proficient accounting software knowledge, along with generic computer skills required
- Spreadsheet skills preferred
- Strong communication (written, verbal, and listening) and collaborative skills to work with many personalities inside and outside of the company
Travel Requirement
- Less than 10% travel
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
- Reliable internet access for any period of time working remotely, not in a Workiva office.
How You’ll Be Rewarded:
- Salary range in the US: $61,000.00 - $104,000.00
- A discretionary bonus typically paid annually
- Restricted Stock Units granted at time of hire
- 401(k) match and comprehensive employee benefits package
The salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this job in the US. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience and other relevant factors.
Where You’ll Work
Our values drive how we work and who we hire. You will see these values ingrained in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products and in the work environment we’ve created.
- Customer Success: Always delight our customers.
- Trust: Rely on each other.
- Integrity: Do the right thing, every time.
- Collaboration: Share resources and work together.
- Innovation: Keep creating solutions and finding better ways.
- Inclusion: Support a diverse community where we all belong.
- Accountability: Be responsible for your success and failure.
We believe our people are our greatest asset, and our unique culture gives employees the opportunity to make an impact everyday. We give our employees the freedom and resources they need—backed by our culture of collaboration and diverse thought—to continue innovating and breaking new ground. We hire talented people with a wide range of skills and experiences who are eager to tackle some of today’s most challenging problems.
At Workiva, you’ll enjoy:
- Fantastic Benefits: With coverage starting day one, choose from competitive health, dental, and vision plans on the largest physician networks available.
- Casual Dress: Workiva has a casual work environment, most people wear jeans to the office.
- Involvement: Ability to participate in Business Employee Resource Groups (Black, Hispanic, Asian, Women, Rainbow (LGBTQIA+), Veterans, Disabilities), Volunteering, Company wide celebrations, and more
- Work-life Balance: We have competitive PTO, VTO and Parental Leave. We encourage employees to spend time enjoying life outside of work.
Learn more about life at Workiva: https://www.linkedin.com/company/workiva/
Learn more about benefits: https://www.workiva.com/careers/benefits
Workiva is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We believe that great minds think differently. We value diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, and we recognize diversity as an important source of intellectual thought, varied perspective, and innovation. Employment decisions are made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other protected characteristic. We strongly encourage and welcome people from historically marginalized groups to apply.
Workiva is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. To request assistance with the application process, please email talentacquisition@workiva.com.
Workiva supports employees in working where they work best - either from an office or remotely from any location within their country of employment.
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