Staff Accountant

Position: Staff Accountant

Location: Sandston, VA

Job Type: Full Time, Salary Exempt

Reports To: Controller

Perks of Pratt:

Within 1 Month: Eligible for insurance benefits

At 3 Months: 401k with partial match

At 6 Months: PAID vacation days

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance

Unbox your career, click apply to start the process!

Job Description

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Fixed assets
• Sales commissions
• Physical inventory
• Responsible for managing operational data and ensuring data integrity and accuracy
• Development of operational procedures and documentation of data flow
• Development of system controls to ensure data integrity
• Assist the Controller in producing accurate and timely financial statements
• Assist in the month end closing and financial reporting process including account analysis and reconciliation
• Assist in special projects as necessary
• Accurate and timely information for financial statement production
• Ensure compliance with federal and state laws
• Performance analysis of operations that drive growth, strategy and profitability initiatives
• Financial plans and forecasts are developed and variances are analyzed against plans
• Processing of accounts payable, accounts receivable, and expense reports
• General ledger detail review and proper creation of journal entries in a timely manner
• Ensure inventory matches asset accounting

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Business.
• 1-5 years of accounting experience.
• Strong general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and payroll working knowledge.
• Experience in assessing, analyzing and improving business performance.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Strong computer skills -- proficient in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• SAP experience preferred
• ADP experience preferred

Required Skills:

• Excellent communication skills. 
•  Able to read and interpret documents such as sales reports, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, training and procedure manuals. 
•  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of an organization.  

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or graphic form.  
• Ability to solve a variety of problems and deal with situations where limited information or standardization exists.

• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, divide in all units of measure. 
• Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, costs, proportions, and volumes.    

• Application knowledge and skill for computer data entry
• Quality standards – both ISO and QS
• Equipment used in an office operation and it’s capabilities that can be translated into efficient operation.  This also supports the Service Manager role of teacher and trainer for his/her personnel.
• Regulatory requirements including but not limited to wage and hour requirements, environmental and waste minimization, company policies, and personnel requirements including OSHA, DEQ and EEO.

Physical Demands: 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and talk or hear.  The employee is sometimes required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Pratt Industries is America’s 5th largest paper and packaging company with more than 7,500 highly skilled employees dedicated to the environment and sustainability. Pratt Industries is one of the largest corrugated packaging companies in America, with sophisticated manufacturing facilities in more than a dozen states. The company operates three of the most modern, cost effective paper mills in the country, as well as a series of sheet and box plants strategically placed throughout the United States offering a wide range of creative packaging solutions. Pratt Industries is committed to recycling and the environment by “harvesting the urban forest."

Pratt Industries offers competitive compensation plans with incentive opportunities, full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, FSA, All State, Pre-Paid Legal, and 401(k) with company match, paid vacation, and paid holidays.