Staff Accountant I

Job Description

Staff Accountant I | O’Reilly Auto Parts

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at O’Reilly Auto Parts, located in Springfield, MO. O’Reilly Auto Parts is a 26,778-person organization with a proven track record of growth and stability, fostering successful career paths through its promote-from-within philosophy. The Staff Accountant I plays a crucial role in ensuring the company’s financial integrity by delivering timely and accurate financial reporting, managing journal entries, reconciling accounts, and maintaining SOX compliance, while also providing essential financial support to field and operational teams.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Springfield, MO

• Team: Finance Department, reporting to management.
• Mission: Deliver timely and accurate financial reporting, manage journal entries, perform account reconciliations and variance analysis, and ensure compliance with SOX controls.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Record Financial Transactions: Timely prepare journal entries and account reconciliations in strict accordance with GAAP and O’Reilly accounting policies. This includes resolving identified issues, making necessary corrections, ensuring continuous compliance with SOX controls, and thoroughly maintaining all supporting control process documentation.
• Support Audit Processes: Actively assist in both internal and external audit processes as required, providing necessary documentation and explanations to facilitate smooth and efficient audits.
• Perform Financial Analysis: Generate essential reporting and analysis for management, conducting monthly analysis of various balance sheet accounts. This also involves performing monthly analytical reviews and reasonableness tests for various income and expense accounts, analyzing budget-to-actual variances, and diligently researching and correcting any detected errors.
• Contribute to Budgeting and Collaboration: Provide assistance in the annual budgeting process through the development of estimates, essential tools, and comprehensive reporting. Additionally, collaborate with team members across finance and other departments to identify and implement improvements in processes and overall operations.
• Provide Operational Support: Deliver a high level of service to operational groups and departments by providing prompt and thorough responses to financial questions and requests for enhanced reporting. This role also involves assisting management with special projects as needed and providing support to other members of the Finance department.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting. Career level: Entry-Level.
• Experience: Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Excel, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and frequent deadlines.
• Skills: Attention to detail, effective written and verbal communication, accuracy, and the ability to work with limited supervision.