Staff Accountant: ‑Driven, SOX‑Aware Finance

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Participate in the month-end closing process. Monitor entries in the General Ledger (GL) to ensure appropriate allocation, determine if reclassifications are required, explain variances, and analyze various accounts to mitigate year-end audit exposure. Develop and recommend new procedures, processes, and policies for the accounting operations of the assigned function. Serve as an accounting business partner to the assigned function on moderately complex issues.

Analyze, research, and reconcile selected accounts and cost discrepancies. Effectively communicate with field associates, corporate support staff, and management to ensure accounting-related issues are brought to the attention of the appropriate individuals for action. This function performs both statistical and financial analysis and requires independent judgment and decision-making.

This position must protect Petco’s accounting data received from both internal and external sources.

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

Essential Job Functions:

• 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.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

• 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.

Functional Area Assignments

The accounting department encompasses several functional areas. As a partner, you will be assigned to one specific functional area and…