As a Retail Accounting Assistant your primary mission is to support a team of accountants in providing full-charge accounting services across the US and Canada. Using your available resources, the help of your teammates and your working knowledge of Ascend and QuickBooks your mission is to insure our customers receive timely, accurate and insightful information.
You’ll go above and beyond to provide the best customer service to everyone that you work with. At Ascend we’re all in the business of providing the best system and best support for our world class software. So, in addition to your primary job duties, you’ll be called on and encouraged to help in all areas of our business.
Responsibilities:
- Verify and key sales, cost of goods sold, deposits and inventory movement entries.
- Verify accuracy of invoices, match to purchase orders and key via Accounts Payable.
- Perform reconciliations on bank and credit card accounts as well as for vendor balances.
- Help maintain detailed cash flow reports for our customers.
Position Requirements:
- Two years of accounting experience.
- Retail accounting experience is desired.
- A two year technical degree or higher is desired.
- Ideal candidates will have telephone-based customer service experience and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Candidates should have a working knowledge of desktop Windows operating systems and Office programs.
- Experience in retail and with retail management systems is a plus.
- Successful team members are positive and calm in a busy environment. They do more than is asked of them and they work well on their own.