Accountant – Accounts Receivable

Job Description

Accountant | 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC.

The Tone:
This is a fully remote role at 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC., though candidates need to live close to one of our offices in Jericho, NY, Oak Brook, IL, Westerville, OH, or Medford, OR. 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, INC. is a Family of Brands dedicated to engaging customers through differentiated products and unique services, helping them connect with the important people in their lives. This specific Accountant opportunity is crucial for supporting our Gourmet Foods & Gift Baskets brands, which are primarily based in the Chicagoland area and include well-known names like DesignPac, 1-800-Baskets.com, Simply Chocolate, and The Popcorn Factory. The role is essential for maintaining the accuracy of accounts receivable transactions, providing critical support for month-end and quarter-end close activities, and ensuring timely and precise cash application, billing, and reconciliation processes, all in strict adherence to accounting standards and company policies.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Remote – Oak Brook, IL

• Team: Reports to Accounting Manager, collaborates with cross-functional partners to ensure proper collection activity and reporting.
• Mission: To manage and maintain the accuracy of accounts receivable transactions, support month-end and quarter-end close activities, and ensure timely and accurate cash application, billing, and reconciliation processes.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Oversee Accounts Receivable: Own and manage the entire Accounts Receivable function, including customer billing, cash application, credit memos, and proactively monitoring customer accounts to follow up on past-due balances.
• Drive Collection Efforts: Collaborate with internal teams to actively support and streamline collection efforts, ensuring the timely recovery of outstanding balances.
• Ensure Financial Accuracy: Perform credit card sales reconciliations, validate AR balances, and investigate and resolve payment discrepancies and customer disputes to ensure data integrity.
• Execute Close Processes: Perform critical monthly and quarterly close activities, including preparing journal entries, conducting schedule analysis, and completing required financial reporting within deadlines.
• Maintain Balance Sheet Integrity: Prepare and review Balance Sheet account reconciliations, supporting overall accounting processes to ensure transactions are recorded in accordance with GAAP and company policies.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Early Career professional with foundational knowledge of accounting principles and a solid understanding of GAAP.
• Experience: Proven experience in managing Accounts Receivable functions, encompassing customer billing, cash application, credit memos, and customer account monitoring. Demonstrated participation in month-end and quarter-end close activities, including journal entry preparation and financial reporting.
• Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to investigate and resolve payment discrepancies and customer disputes; proficiency in performing balance sheet account reconciliations; effective collaboration with cross-functional internal teams.
• Bonus: Experience contributing to process improvement initiatives, procedures, and system enhancements; ability to perform ad hoc analysis and respond to reporting requests.