Staff Accountant at BRUNT Workwear in North Reading, MA

What you’ll do: 

BRUNT is seeking a smart, results-oriented, highly motivated and opportunistic Staff Accountant. You will oversee day-to-day accounting operations with a primary focus on the wholesale receivables lifecycle including invoicing, collections, and proactive outreach. You will also manage daily accounts payable transactions. Beyond transactional management, you will also help build out accounting processes and controls, assist in the monthly close process, and support year-end audits. This role will allow you to gain insight into cross functional areas of the business within a high growth start-up environment and culture. 

How You’ll Do It: 

Credit Collections: 

• Manage the credit and collections processes, including monitoring outstanding balances, processing payment, and ensuring timely resolution of account discrepancies.
• Ensuring all invoices are sent out to accounts in a timely and accurate manner, and reconciling differences effectively and efficiently.
• Communicate regularly with partners via phone and email regarding overdue payments, maintaining strong customer relationships.
• Support the development of company policies, processes, and controls, ensuring compliance with internal standards; especially as it relates to collection efforts.
• Maintain high standards of quality and attention to detail, delivering reliable and high-quality work. 

Accounts Payable:

• Responsible for daily work and related journal entries over accounts payable and related expenses.
• Own the payables process to ensure all payables and expenses are properly input, recognized at the proper time and correlate to executed contracts and agreements, working cross functionally with different departments.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounts payable, credit collections, and additional areas of accounting to optimize efficiency. 
• Assist in the year-end audit as well as various other ad-hoc audits throughout the year. 

Cross-Functional:

• Work with various departments throughout the organization and via different systems to ensure you are meeting goals and deadlines.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including Finance, Accounting, Wholesale, and Operations, to resolve invoice discrepancies while using best practices in GAAP and accrual accounting.
• Help implement NetSuite processes and controls, becoming a power user within the system. 

What You Need to Succeed: 

• Bachelor's degree in accounting and/or finance preferred 
• 0-3 years experience in an in house or public accounting role
• 0 - 2 years experience in customer facing roles, with exposure to Collections preferred. 
• Hard working, self-motivated and willing to get in the weeds to understand all aspects of the job.
• Exposure to NetSuite or any other general ledger package preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and a high degree of comfort calling external parties regarding delinquent payments and discrepancies. 
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail, with the ability to identify discrepancies  on invoices on a month-to-month basis.
• Proficient in Excel, with the ability to learn and quickly grasp all computer programs essential for the job, including NetSuite. 
• Ability to tackle several projects simultaneously and work well within a fast-paced and growing organization
• Ability to commute to our office in North Reading, MA 4x a week