Staff Accountant NY USA

Staff Accountant

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Jamaica, New York

Morrison Express is a leading third party logistics and supply chain management provider, offering a variety of strategic global shipping and freight transportation solutions.

• Complete payments and controls expenses by receiving, processing, verifying, and reconciling invoices
• Pays vendors by monitoring scheduling and preparing checks, and resolving purchase order, invoice, or payment discrepancies and documentation
• Ensures credit is received for outstanding memos
• Issues stop-payments
• Communicating status of work and issues with managers and directors on a timely basis
• Assist with Ad-Hoc task requested by managers or directors
• Verifies vendor accounts by reconciling monthly statements and related transactions
• Protects organization’s value by keeping information confidential
• The ability to interact with multiple departments and worldwide station efficiently and in professional manner
• Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances
• Charges expenses to accounts and cost centers by analyzing invoice/expense reports; recording entries
• Process accounts and incoming payments by recording checks, ACHS, wires, and credit card transactions in compliance with financial policies and procedures
• Perform day to day financial transactions, including verifying, classifying, computing, posting and recording accounts receivables data
• Reconcile the accounts receivable ledger to ensure that all payments are accounted for and properly posted
• Facilitate payment of invoices due by working closely with the account owners and DM’s by sending reminders
• Send weekly AR aging to account owners, DM’s and customer’s
• Gain understanding of customer contracts to ensure correct and accurate billing
• Communicates problems and concerns with managers and directors on a timely basis
• Working closely with the account owners and DM’s to make sure customer past due invoices are collected in timely manner

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• 2 – 4+ years of Bookkeeper experience
• High proficiency in attention to detail
• Strong fluency with Excel formulas and functions
• Strong analytical and data gathering skills
• Good business acumen and strong interpersonal skills
• High energy with ability to work in a high-volume environment on a consistent basis
• Must have organizational skills; able to identify, plan and implement process improvements