Staff Accountant – Wholesale Accounting

Job Description

Staff Accountant | BRUNT Workwear

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at BRUNT Workwear, located in North Reading, MA. BRUNT Workwear is dedicated to redefining the workwear category by engineering better boots and apparel for tradesmen and women, working directly with real workers to meet their needs. Beyond products, the company is building a community for tradesmen and women through events and engagement. This Staff Accountant role is crucial for overseeing daily accounting operations, with a primary focus on the wholesale receivables lifecycle and accounts payable, supporting the company’s growth and financial integrity.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, North Reading, MA
• Pay: $68000–$72000 yearly
• Mission: This person ensures accurate and timely financial transactions, manages wholesale receivables and accounts payable, and helps build robust accounting processes to support a high-growth startup environment.
• Tech Stack: NetSuite, Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Wholesale Receivables: Manage the entire wholesale credit and collections lifecycle, including monitoring outstanding balances, processing payments, and resolving account discrepancies efficiently.
• Accounts Payable: Oversee daily accounts payable transactions and related journal entries, ensuring all payables are properly input, recognized, and correlated to executed contracts.
• Process Development: Help build out and implement accounting processes and controls, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency in accounts payable, credit collections, and other accounting areas.
• Financial Reporting Support: Assist in the monthly close process, collaborate with internal teams to resolve invoice discrepancies, and support year-end as well as ad-hoc audits.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with various departments, including Finance, Wholesale, and Operations, to ensure compliance with GAAP and accrual accounting best practices while helping implement NetSuite processes.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Entry-Level. Bachelor’s degree in accounting and/or finance is preferred.
• Experience: 0-3 years in an in-house or public accounting role; 0-2 years in customer-facing roles, with exposure to Collections preferred.
• Skills: Strong written and verbal communication, high degree of comfort calling external parties regarding payments, highly organized with strong attention to detail, proficient in Excel with ability to quickly learn new systems.
• Bonus: Exposure to NetSuite or any other general ledger package; ability to tackle several projects simultaneously and work well in a fast-paced environment.