Accountant I

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Job description

Main Duties & Responsibilities:
Primary Job Role

Utilize our internal expense management system to organize and store receipts securely.

Facilitate the approval process by routing expense reports to relevant managers or supervisors.

Ensure timely processing of expense reports, meeting payment cycles and deadlines.

Scrutinize employee-submitted expense reports to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with company policies.

Verify that expenses align with established guidelines, including allowable expenses, receipt requirements, and spending limits.

Identify discrepancies, missing receipts, or policy violations. Collaborate with employees to resolve issues promptly.

Ensure credit card accounts are accurately coded and balanced and any discrepancies and or fraud are investigated promptly.

Assist team members in ordering new cards and ensure accurate and timely processing of new card requests.

Assist users with password resets, account activations, and initial log-in procedures.

Properly and professionally communicate with vendors and team.

Manages payables for our most intricate and complex vendors.

Accounts payable invoice processing, including manually entering, reviewing, validating, and obtaining approval(s).

Enter data into computer systems accurately and efficiently.

Review, research and problem solve vendor inquiries and/or concerns.

Perform reconciliations of monthly vendor statement and general ledger accounts. Perform bank reconciliations.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Essential Job Competencies

Safety: fully supports, encourages and follows safe work behavior, and considers safety of paramount importance in the workplace.

Job Specific Skills: Demonstrates the required depth and mastery of knowledge and skill associated with the job as identified in the Learning Management System (LMS) and other applicable sources. Demonstrates the effective application of the job specific knowledge, skills and ability required to resolve job related challenges in the workplace. Refer to job specific training requirements for the job identified in the LMS.

Communication: Uses active listening skills, conveying information with the appropriate medium that is clear and easily understood. Uses feedback to verify effective and accurate communication has occurred. Ensures that others having a need to know are kept informed about developments, progress, problems and plans through consistent, effective communication. Avoids surprises.

Fostering Teamwork: Listens and responds constructively to other team members' ideas. Offers support for others' ideas and proposals. Is open with other team members about his/her concerns. Works for solutions that all team members can support.

Information Gathering: Checks all appropriate sources in identifying the information needed for analysis and decision making. Uses skillful methods in obtaining high quality relevant information. Checks work to ensure accuracy and completeness. Compares observations or finished work to what is expected to find inconsistencies. Clearly documents sources, and organizes the information according to the research needs.

Interpersonal Skill: Anticipates, notices, and understands concerns of others, involving them in a process or decision to ensure their support. Develops and maintains positive relationships. Considerate and discreet in handling challenging, awkward or tense interpersonal situations, focusing on issues and interests instead of people or positions. Knows when to escalate critical issues when unsuccessful in gaining support.

Planning and Organizing: Creates realistic schedules and follows them. Evaluates progress against schedule and goal. Identifies the sequence of tasks and the resources needed to achieve a goal, and prioritizes key action steps. Anticipates the impacts / risks of actions. Seeks and uses others' input about critical actions, timelines, sequencing, scope, methodology, expected outcomes, and priorities. Adjusts plans based on input.

Customer Oriented: Demonstrates concern for satisfying external and/or internal customers. Responsive, quickly and effectively addresses customer concerns or problems. Assures customers he/she is willing to work with them to meet their needs. Presents a cheerful, positive manner with customers.

Results Oriented: Has a strong sense of urgency and commitment to achieve desired results in the face of obstacles and frustrations. Remains focused, does not get bogged down in unnecessary detail. Identifies and utilizes the most efficient methods to successfully achieve tasks on time despite unforeseen events. Driven, maintains a sense of urgency and adjusts schedules as needed to achieve without sacrificing quality of work.

Adaptability: Adapts to changing business needs, conditions, and work responsibilities. Adapts approach, goals, and methods to achieve solutions and results in dynamic situations. Recovers quickly from setbacks, and finds alternative ways to reach goals or targets. Open to different and new ways of doing things; willing to modify one's preferred way of doing things.

Credibility: Demonstrated concern to be responsible, reliable, and trustworthy. Maintains commitments. Respects the confidentiality of information or concerns shared by others. Is honest and forthright with people. Takes personal responsibility for the quality and timeliness of work. Punctual, follows instructions, policies, and procedures.

Analytical: Uses a logical, systematic, sequential approach breaking down complex tasks into its component parts and considering each part in detail. Compares alternatives, evaluating the costs, benefits, risks, and chances for success, in making decisions. Identifies patterns and trends to determine root cause. Generates a range of creative solutions, choosing the most appropriate option.

Company Overview:
In 1962, Ring Power Corporation became a full-line Caterpillar dealer in North Florida, and later expanded its authorized territory to include Central Florida.

Today, Ring Power Corporate headquarters in St. Augustine oversees the operations of 18 branch locations throughout the state of Florida, including large regional facilities in Tampa and Orlando and crane and forklift sales and service facilities in Pompano. Ring Power also has eight facilities outside of Florida - The Carolinas, Georgia, Texas & Tennessee- to serve the needs of other specialized industries and customers.

Ring Power Corporation has become one of the largest Caterpillar dealers in the Southeastern United States through dedication to the mission of customer service. In order to preserve the "Customers First" reputation that Ring Power was built on, we continually train our employees and work closely with our customers to assure complete satisfaction, especially after the sale.

Currently, more than 2,300 employees at 20+ locations throughout Florida and the United States work hard to provide the highest quality construction equipment, backed by responsive, professional service and support at every level.

Qualifications:
Education and Experience

Formal Education Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

Experience 6 months or less

Required / Credentials

Able to easily and effectively comprehend written material and communicate orally and in writing with employees and customers.

Experience with Microsoft Suite (Excel, Word, Outlook).

Ability to comprehend the payment and discount terms of various AP vendor invoices.

Updating of Knowledge

Job requirements change requiring re-training to stay current every 1-2 years.

Responsibility for Change, Innovation, Overall Improvement, and/or Effectiveness

Problem Solving Job requires complex problem solving ability with little guidance. Independent research and analysis are sometimes required to develop solutions.

Creativity Job requires some creativity to generate solutions or improve effectiveness within well-established boundaries.

Autonomy Job is not normally monitored, but overall objectives are clearly defined. Use of discretion in how the work is done, setting priorities and decision making is encouraged. More emphasis is placed on achieving the desired outcome, not on controlling the process.

Working Environment

Stress Load Occasional exposure to these stresses (less than 20% of the time).

Workload Fluctuation Job involves occasional changes in priorities, complexity and/or quantity of work.

Work Schedule Work is typically performed during regular business hours with occasional requirements to work nights, holidays and weekends.

Organizational Impact

A person's performance in this job has noticeable immediate impact on expense, efficiencies or achievement of overall department objectives.

Supervisory Responsibility

Job has no subordinates / no supervisory responsibility (may work independently or as a member of a team)

Physical Demands

"NA": Not Applicable

"O": Occasionally - (up to 3 hours/day)

"F": Frequently - (3-6 hours/day)

"C": Constantly - (6-8 hours/day)

N/A: Climbing

N/A: Balancing

N/A: Stooping

N/A: Kneeling

N/A: Crouching

N/A: Crawling

O: Reaching

O: Standing

C: Sitting

O: Walking

F: Feeling

C: Fingering

O: Grasping

F: Repetitive Motion

C: Talking

C: Hearing

O: Pushing - Up to 25 lbs.

O: Pulling - Up to 25 lbs.
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