Staff Accountant

November 20, 2024

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Petco

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pet supplies • pet services • dog food • dog supplies • dog products

10,000+ employees

Founded 1965

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2021-03

Description

• Interact professionally and effectively through verbal and written communication with all professional contacts with emphasis on company interests. • Efficiently create complex documents and/or reports using spreadsheet, database, and accounting software in a timely fashion. • Independently prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes. • Analyze simple to moderately complex data to determine the appropriate course of action. • Perform accounting duties and control activities to ensure financial results are reported without error. • Research and analyze selective data sets and/or accounts pertaining to the duties of the specific functional area of accounting being performed. • Prepare month-end journal entries, reconciliations, budgets, forms, reports, and schedules relating to the accounts in the specific area of focus. • Effectively communicate with field partners, corporate support staff, and senior management, ensuring issues related to accounting are communicated to the appropriate impacted partners for action. • Analyze problems, research the root causes, and overcome roadblocks to functional success.

Requirements

• A 4 year college degree in Accounting/Finance or a minimum 3 to 5 years of work experience at the level of junior or staff accountant preferred. • Communicate well in English and convey accounting concepts to non-accounting associates. • Good interpersonal communications skills and interaction with other department personnel as well as senior management. • Intermediate to advanced knowledge of most Microsoft Office Suite applications (e.g. Excel, Word, and Access) and 10-key by touch. • Must be accurate, detail oriented, proficient with personal computer based programs, and trainable on company specific systems. • Interact with peers and leaders of the business with poise and confidence. • Analyze business decisions critically and engage in constructive conversations regarding alternative points of view when needed. • Knowledge of the fundamentals associated with different functional areas of Accounting. • Management of multiple concurrent projects/priorities at one time.