Staff Accountant

Job Description

Staff Accountant | Precision Garage Door Service

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Precision Garage Door Service, located in Pompton Plains, New Jersey. The company is a private equity-backed home services organization. This role is a key contributor to daily accounting operations, driving process improvements, ensuring GAAP compliance, and standardizing practices across a multi-entity, acquisition-driven platform. This position requires a hands-on approach to Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions, focusing on improving accuracy, consistency, and scalability across the organization.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Pompton Plains, New Jersey, US
• Pay: $60000–$70000 yearly
• Team: Reports to Controller
• Mission: This person will contribute to daily accounting operations, ensure GAAP compliance, standardize practices across multiple entities, and improve AP/AR accuracy and scalability.
• Tech Stack: NetSuite, Sage, QuickBooks, Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Core Accounting: Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes by preparing journal entries, including accruals, and performing account reconciliations.
• AP/AR Execution: Actively participate in day-to-day Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable activities, including invoice processing, billing, collections, and vendor payments.
• Process Improvement: Identify inefficiencies and implement process improvements in invoicing, collections, and disbursements, while evaluating automation opportunities.
• Accruals & Compliance: Identify inconsistencies or gaps in accrual-based accounting practices across entities and recommend corrective actions to ensure proper revenue and expense recognition.
• Standardization & Integration: Support the integration of newly acquired companies into the accounting infrastructure and drive consistency in accounting policies and reporting practices.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, with a strong understanding of GAAP and accrual accounting principles.
• Experience: 2-5+ years of accounting experience, including hands-on work with Accounts Payable and/or Accounts Receivable functions. Specific experience identifying and correcting accrual and revenue/expense recognition issues is also required.
• Skills: Proficiency in Excel and various accounting systems such as NetSuite, Sage, or QuickBooks, combined with strong attention to detail, a process-oriented mindset, and effective communication abilities.
• Bonus: Exposure to process improvement initiatives or system implementations.