Accountant

Job Description

Accountant | Wesco

The Tone:
This Accountant role at Wesco focuses on maintaining financial records and ensuring the accuracy of financial transactions. Wesco is a leading provider of business-to-business distribution, logistics services, and supply chain solutions, with a workforce of over 20,000 people worldwide. In this role, you will be crucial for ensuring accurate entries to ledger accounts, reconciling financial data, and preparing essential financial reports like balance sheets and profit and loss statements. You will also contribute to future financial predictions by analyzing current costs, revenues, and obligations.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Pay: $58775–$76407 annually
• Mission: Maintain accurate financial records, ensure proper transaction recording, and analyze financial data for reporting and future expense predictions.
• Tech Stack: Oracle financials module, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Access, company automated financial systems

What You’ll Actually Do
• Financial Recordkeeping: Compile and analyze financial information to prepare journal entries and document business transactions.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare profit and loss statements, monthly closing, and cost accounting reports.
• Account Reconciliation: Prepare general ledger account reconciliations with relevant line item detail and supporting documentation.
• Budget Management: Analyze and review budgets and expenditures, recommending appropriate levels and ensuring expenditure control.
• Compliance & Audit: Adhere to company policies, practices, procedures, GAAP, and SOX standards, and interact with internal and external auditors.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field, with foundational knowledge in accounting theory and principles.
• Experience: 1 year of accounting experience required.
• Skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Access, strong verbal and written communication, ability to analyze and interpret complex financial data, and principles of financial record keeping and reporting.
• Bonus: 3 years of accounting experience, and/or 1 year of working knowledge of Oracle financials module.