We invite you to be part of our team of trailblazers dedicated to helping people discover and enjoy the outside.
Come join us.
Because on the inside we're all outsiders.
And if it's outside, we're all in.
Position Purpose:
- Ensures that our internal policies, mechanisms, and guidelines around retail/outlet stores sales comply with senior management recommendations.
- Uses auditing skills to review sales data and detect errors that may be due to fraud, technology breakdowns or accounting inaccuracies.
- Provide mentoring, process guidance and technical expertise to other analysts as needed.
- Audit and proof Accounts Receivable work for accuracy and conformance to procedures.
- Accounts Receivable, mentoring, process guidance and technical expertise to other analysts as needed.
**Responsibilities**:
- Resolve questions and problems related to all retail/outlet stores daily sales and daily bank deposits.
Escalate only the most complex issues to higher levels.
- Design and maintain reports that provide reliable information to support business processes and decision-making around the retail/outlet stores daily sales and daily bank deposits.
- Review daily reports, including but not limited to financial summaries, error reports, void reports, and control reports.
- Prepare daily sales verification worksheet to identify transaction errors, skipped transactions and properly reports out all issues.
- Prepare daily store audit reporting reconciliation worksheet to identify overages/shortages, cash/check deposit reclass entries and properly report out all issues.
- Work directly with retail/outlet store management and IT personnel to resolve all sales and cash issues.
- Responsible for the Month-End closing of audited results, including all uploads and journal entries to General Ledger.
- Prepare weekly reconciliation for deposits and all applicable loads to General Ledger Assist Loss Prevention with investigating discrepancies.
- Establish and maintain Policies & Procedures and standard operating procedures (SOP's)
- Recommend policy and or system enhancements that improve processes for productivity and controls.
- Make recommendations to improve existing procedures/processes based on best practices, standardization, models, new concepts, and ideas.
Acquire and share business knowledge with the team.
Assist with other projects as needed.
Performance Expectations:
- Design sustainable reports with reliable, clear information and efficient methods.
- Ensure the quality and integrity of data used in reporting.
- Reproduce reports according to the scheduled timeline.
- Able to accurately respond inquiries from the business or upper management, based on understanding of procedures and data.
- Demonstrate advanced communication skills and provide exceptional customer service to business partners and customers.
- Be able identify priorities of requests; respond in a prompt and accurate way to requests or questions from customers.
- Communicate issues/concerns to leaders in a timely matter.
- Ability to mine, analyze and present data to drive informed decision making.
- Constantly question the status quo and provide suggestions to improve existing processes.
- Actively provide guidance and support to other analysts.
- Demonstrate the required level of proficiency for the key competencies for the position.
- Demonstrate Integrity and Commitment values to achieve results.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Microsoft Office & Visual Basic skills - Intermediate to Advanced
- Results Oriented - Advanced
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement mindset - Advanced
- Customer Focus - Advanced
- Learning agility - Advanced
- Self-development and learning desire - Advanced
- Team Player - Advanced
- Technical Skills - Advanced
- Analytical skills - Advanced
- Problem Solving - Advanced
- Decision making - Intermediate
- Business Knowledge - Intermediate
- Emotional Intelligence - Intermediate
- Mentoring - Intermediate
- Strong time management skills and attention to detail
- Strong communication skills with ability to communicate across a wide range of audiences
- Ability to handle confidential information
- Nice to have: Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and General Accounting background, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash process experience, SAP (Finance modules)
English level: Advanced written and oral English skills (C1)
Education level: Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting or related field
Years of Experience: 1+ years of relevant experience
If you care about the outdoors, joining L.L.Bean is a great way to feel good about what you do.
Our benefits package makes a good thing even better, with programs and perks designed to support your health and financial goals.
Plus, maintaining a healthy work-life balance and re-charging outside are all part of the plan.
Because, when it comes to the outside—we're all in.
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