Senior Accountant

Position Overview

The Senior Accountant at Tuckernuck has the responsibility of ensuring the accuracy and integrity of accounting information and subsequent financial statements, by recording, verifying, and consolidating the Company’s monthly transactions. Additionally, the Senior Accountant should perform monthly account reconciliation and trend analysis to further synthesize the Company’s overall results. This includes working closely with team members so that they understand the financial impact of their monthly operations. Specifically, the Senior Accountant is responsible for the following major areas:

Core Responsibilities

• Cash Management
  • Monitor the company’s cash situation daily through PNC bank. 
  • Review the bank statement daily and ensure that all items are entered timely into NetSuite.
  • Monitor vendor payments and work with the buying and finance teams to ensure payments are processed prior to the due date. 
  • Sales Audit management for online and retail stores. This involves the following:
    • Review Shopify payout reports on a weekly basis to ensure all batches settled.
    • Reconcile return credits issues with returns received.
    • Work with credit card processor, Signifyd and Customer Experience teams to recover any chargeback disputes.
    • Reconcile deposits per the Retail Store Bank Statement to cash and credit card sales daily.
    • Review and reconcile ‘Undeposited Funds’ account monthly.
  • Review and reconcile all cash accounts and credit card account monthly.
  • Be alert to future cash needs by reviewing the AP sheet future cash flow needs. This should be reviewed weekly.

• Periodic Financial Processing Cycle
  • Run the weekly payments meeting with the finance team.
  • Review accounts payable disbursements in line with their due dates.
  • Allocate all disbursements to the proper accounts in NetSuite.
  • Have a detailed understanding of the AP Aging report.
  • Prepare other regular disbursements, which occur by agreement, rather than by invoicing. This includes monthly rent payments and contract agreements. 

• Sales Tax Responsibilities
  • Work with the Avalara reports to approve the monthly sales tax filings.
  • Work with our external parties, including Baker Tilly to manage outstanding tax issues.
  • Review sales tax codes of inventory to ensure proper sales tax collection, especially new inventory categories added to the site. This should be reviewed quarterly.
  • Work with Avalara and Shopify to correct any sales tax issues that arise. 
  • Monthly, reconcile the sales tax liability accounts in NetSuite.
  • Biweekly review of all tax notices received electronically or by mail.

• Month End Close Responsibilities
  • The Senior Accountant is responsible performing month end financial close procedures during the first two weeks of the month, including:
    • Reviewing all financial transactions such as sweep transactions, bank fees, merchant fees, and transfers.
    • Close Accounts Payable and disbursements. Work with all departments to make sure that we are receiving invoices and expense reports in a timely manner to ensure accurate reporting.  Review the Aged Trial Balance and reconcile to the GL.
    • Prepare monthly journal entries for review. 
    • Review the reconciled bank statements for cash accounts, including the PNC accounts (operating and loan), the Bank of America account, and the Paypal account.
    • Review expenses accounts, specifically for general operating, shipping inventory, and computer and internet, compared to budget and understand the reason for variances between actual results and budget.

• Manage Wholesale Invoices and Payments
  • The Senior Accountant will work with the wholesale team to send invoices timely and ensure accurate and complete payments of these invoices.
  • She will prepare these journal entries monthly and ensure the corresponding sales are accurately recorded in the financial statements. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• A four-year college degree is required.  A major in accounting is required.
• Three or more years of experience, preferably in the apparel or consumer goods industries. 

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Proficient knowledge of accrual accounting.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy. 
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Excel®, and NetSuite.
• The maturity to deal with sensitive and confidential information professionally.
• The ability to perform a high volume of transactions accurately with limited supervision.
• Comfort in dealing with new technology and systems.
• The ability to perform multiple projects simultaneously.

Compensation 

Compensation for the role will be determined based on the candidate's qualifications, skills, and experience. The estimated annual compensation for this role is $70,000-$95,000; classified as full-time exempt and not eligible for overtime. At Tuckernuck, we care about our team and offer benefits that support your health, growth, and work-life balance. This includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) with a company match, generous paid time off and holiday, paid new parent leave, day care coverage, a generous employee discount, and other great perks. 

Core Values

The successful candidate will also demonstrate the following core values that inspire the Tuckernuck team to make a difference.

• Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

• Find the Fun

• Stay Authentic

• Respect

• Entrepreneurial Spirit

• Start Strong & Finish Strong

• Have Courage

Tuckernuck is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. Tuckernuck policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, marital or veteran status, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information or characteristics (or those of a family member), sexual orientation, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits discrimination based on a perception that anyone has any of those characteristics or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics. All such discrimination is unlawful.