Staff Accountant, Accounts Payable

This role is based out of our Satellite Support Center in San Antonio, TX.

• Efficiently create complex documents and reports using spreadsheets, databases, and accounting software in a timely fashion.
• Independently prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks within established time frames.
• 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 accounts pertaining to the duties of the specific functional area of accounting.
• Prepare month‑end journal entries, reconciliations, forecasts, budgets, forms, reports, and schedules relating to accounts in the specific area of focus.
• Effectively communicate with field partners, corporate support staff, and senior management, ensuring accounting issues are directed to the appropriate impacted partners for action.
• Analyze problems, research root causes, and overcome roadblocks to functional success.
• Maintain compliance with internal controls related to Sarbanes‑Oxley (SOX), including preparing documentation and assisting with internal and external audit requests.
• Interact professionally and effectively through verbal and written communication with all professional contacts, with a strong emphasis on company interests.

• Protect confidential information and respect the confidentiality of others.
• Identify process weaknesses, develop proposed improvements, and collaboratively implement solutions to drive efficiency and increase profitability.
• Perform analyses of actual versus budget, reclassify errors, explain variances, and interface with other departments to provide guidance on the proper classification of expenses.

The accounting department encompasses several functional areas. As a partner, you will be assigned to one specific functional area and will be responsible for the designated duties outlined below:

• Perform high‑level account reconciliations related to merchandise receipts, invoices, and purchase orders.
• Prepare month‑end accrual and reclassification journal entries.
• Review and oversee supplier record creation and maintenance.
• Research and resolve vendor disputes regarding payment and receipt matching variances.

• Reconcile designated accounts in alignment with Management Review Controls (MRC) guidelines.
• Publish accounts receivable reports, age schedules, and perform comprehensive account analyses.
• Review transactional work completed by specialists (including billing and bank deposits).
• Maintain and update proprietary departmental databases.
• Assist departmental specialists and analysts with escalated issues or concerns.
• Partner with other internal accounting departments to resolve cross‑functional issues.
• Prepare and post journal entries while maintaining a thorough understanding of offsetting account activity.

• Respond to general ledger information requests received on the Profit & Loss (P&L) Hotline from field personnel and other departments, including preparing accruals/reclassifications and providing variance guidance.
• Prepare recurring monthly accruals and conduct budget‑to‑actual variance analyses.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional corporate partners to explain variances and guide proper expense classification.
• Perform comprehensive bank account reconciliations.

• Facilitate the interface of the stock ledger to the general ledger and perform associated controls to validate integrity and accuracy.
• Conduct weighted average cost reviews.
• Complete the Inventory Accounting portion of the Borrowing Base Certificate.
• Review and resolve Retail Management System (RMS) to GL mapping concerns, submitting monthly updates.
• Evaluate wholesale inventory and sales activity for accuracy, post accruals, and follow up on aged items.
• Complete and submit Census Bureau surveys.
• Research and respond to P&L hotline inquiries regarding stock ledger activity.
• Support accruals and research for extended business areas, including Supply Chain, Marketing, Marketplace, Loyalty,…