Staff Accountant

Job Description

Staff Accountant | BRUNT Workwear

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at BRUNT Workwear, located in North Reading, MA, requiring a hybrid commute with 4 days in the office. BRUNT Workwear is redefining the workwear category by engineering better boots and apparel for the country’s tradesmen and women, while also building a community around the brand. This Staff Accountant position is crucial for overseeing daily accounting operations, with a primary focus on managing the wholesale receivables lifecycle and accounts payable, and for contributing to the development of robust financial processes and controls within a high-growth startup environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, North Reading, MA
• Pay: $68000–$72000 yearly
• Mission: This role oversees daily accounting operations with a primary focus on the wholesale receivables lifecycle and manages daily accounts payable transactions.
• Tech Stack: NetSuite, Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Credit Collections: Manage the entire wholesale receivables lifecycle, including monitoring outstanding balances, processing payments, invoicing, and proactive outreach to ensure timely resolution of account discrepancies.
• Accounts Payable: Oversee daily accounts payable transactions and related journal entries, ensuring expenses are properly input, recognized, and correlated to executed contracts.
• Process Improvement: Build and improve accounting processes, controls, and policies, identifying opportunities to optimize efficiency across accounts payable, credit collections, and other accounting areas.
• Financial Support: Support the monthly close process and assist in year-end and various other ad-hoc audits throughout the year.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with internal teams, including Finance, Wholesale, and Operations, to resolve invoice discrepancies and implement NetSuite processes and controls, adhering to GAAP and accrual accounting best practices.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Entry-Level. Bachelor’s degree in accounting and/or finance preferred, with core domain knowledge in accounting principles.
• Experience: 0-3 years in an in-house or public accounting role, with 0-2 years experience in customer-facing roles, and exposure to collections preferred.
• Skills: Strong written and verbal communication for external party interactions, highly organized with strong attention to detail to identify discrepancies, proficient in Excel, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously within a fast-paced environment.
• Bonus: Exposure to NetSuite or any other general ledger package, and the ability to learn and quickly grasp all essential computer programs.