Sr. Accountant Analyst - Modesto, CA

About The Save Mart Companies

The Save Mart Companies operates over 200 stores in neighborhoods across California, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington under the Save Mart, Lucky, Food Maxx, and Roth's and Chuck's Fresh Market banners. Proud to be one of the West Coast’s largest regional, full-service grocery chains, the Company and its 11,000 associates take extra care to provide customers with the freshest food for their families at affordable prices.

The Save Mart Companies’ philanthropic non-profit organization, The CARES Foundation, provides vital resources for children and families and has donated over $5 million to local communities.

The Save Mart Companies operates over 200 stores in neighborhoods across California, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington under the Save Mart, Lucky, Food Maxx, and Roth's and Chuck's Fresh Market banners. Proud to be one of the West Coast’s largest regional, full-service grocery chains, the Company and its 11,000 associates take extra care to provide customers with the freshest food for their families at affordable prices.

The Save Mart Companies’ philanthropic non-profit organization, The CARES Foundation, provides vital resources for children and families and has donated over $5 million to local communities.

The Senior Accountant Analyst provides high-level analysis and performs complex accounting tasks to ensure compliance with standards. The position is responsible to identify, analyze, and monitor issues that affect profitability and growth to business and writing internal accounting memo’s to support/guide the company’s adherence to standards as it relates to changes in facts/circumstances or new accounting pronouncements. The Senior Accountant Analyst recommends, designs, implements controls based on policies, and provides the review and analysis on a variety of areas as assigned.

The position interfaces with departments, senior management, third party administrators, and external auditors in order to provide accounting services and/or direction.

• Analyzes trends for operating results (including inventory management) incurred to predict future trends and shortfalls using data platform and dashboards like Tableau
• Analyzes variances to identifying the root cause of the reported results as well as working with business owners to propose and implement solutions
• Develops, maintains and distributes periodic/ad-hoc reports, tools, and financial models that are utilized by various business units to validate data integrity as well as identifies trends, potential opportunities, and areas of risk
• Conducts workflow analysis and makes recommendations on existing platform for business processes, systems, resource utilization, streamline business processes, identify control enhancements and data along with the appropriate narratives
• Acts as liaison to various business units, providing support to management to aid in understanding financial results
• Ensures financial records are maintained in compliance with accepted policies and procedures per general accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
• Reviews accounting schedules/reconciliations, responsible for complex accounting areas and resolves discrepancies and irregularities for reporting
• Assist with both internal and external financial audits

Some of our competitive offerings include

• generous benefits packages (Health, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D, 401K)
• tuition reimbursement and scholarship opportunities
• vacation and personal holidays
• in-store purchase discounts

Hiring pay range: $81,386.

• Strong analytical skills, ability to work with large volume of data and draw insights from analytics
• Strong project-management, problem-solving skills and organization/time management skills; good follow-through on goals, plans, and projects.
• Excellent knowledge of GAAP and stays current with new regulations and accounting pronouncements from the Financial Accounting Standards Board and Private Company Counsel relating to accounting principles and reporting…