Talent Tuesday Newsletter 1/30/24

Take a look at these great Accounting Candidates who are new to the job market and are looking to make a move within the next two weeks. Who is ready to interview? Don't wait too long before they are off the market!? Schedule a time with me this week to go over their BG and to see if they might be a good fit for your team.

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Controller (MB)

St. Peter, MN and open to onsite in the SW metro?

$135K+ perm placement

Industry Experience: ?10+ years of Manufacturing experience

Education:? BS Accounting

Career experience:

Manage all day-to-day accounting and finance activities

Inventory/Cost Accounting

Month-End Close

Cash Management

Financial Reporting

Payroll, and Accounts Payable

Ad hoc analysis

Build and develop the accounting finance team

Supervise two accountants/clerks

Developed and maintained internal controls

Reviewed separation of duties and created standard procedures to mitigate risk. Implemented third party payroll provider and trained employees on the system

Provided visibility to time reporting that improved accuracy and reduced processing time by one day

Transitioned to direct deposit and eliminated paper checks and reduced reporting errors by 50% and reduced process time by ? day

?Facilitated move from investment bank to a traditional bank with move towards more ACH payments for improved cash flow management

Streamlined vendor payments, moving to ACH platform. Improved vendor communication and a commitment to timely payments

Coordinated external audit, ensuring documentation was provided and findings were addressed. Increased management visibility of issues

Implemented bar coding system to reduce manual data collection and reporting errors, resulting in more accurate unit costs

Reviewed costing structure to determine areas of opportunity for greater profitability.

Determined machine rates requiring updates resulting in more accurate costs per machine

Recommended efficiencies in material usage reporting resulting in a reduction of manual data entry by 20 hours per week by consolidating reporting with totals vs. line-item entries

Ensure machine rates are appropriate and current, ensuring proper cost absorption into inventory.

Improved unit cost and profitability analysis accuracy, leading to a 10% average price increase

Software Experience: QuickBooks, Epicor, SAGE, Lawson, Navision, Paycor, Paylocity

Availability:? Two weeks

Staff Accountant (SC)

Savage, MN area and open to onsite

$80-85K perm placement

Industry Experience: ?20+ years of Manufacturing, Public Accounting and Engineering industry experience

Career Experience:

Privately owned manufacturer with $40 million in annual sales

Report directly to the Controller with responsibility for preparing calculations and entries required to maintain accurate cost accounting and inventory management results

Also relied upon to perform additional Ad hoc reconciliations and supporting financial statement schedules

Large local CPA firm specializing in tax, accounting and consulting services

As a member of the Entrepreneurial Services Department, provided monthly accounting services

including preparation of financial statements

Cash flow projections

Bank reconciliations

Complex supporting schedules unique to individual clients

Provide complete monthly financial statements for a group of 18 related entities that generate approximately $80 million in annual revenues

Manage all calculations and supporting schedules for intercompany transactions?

Also review and approve all accounts payable entries and manage cash balances for more than 20 separate bank accounts

Prepare monthly financial statements and cash flow forecasts for a privately held property management company servicing approximately 100 communities in Orange County

Developed multiple templates and forecasting tools that enhanced clients’ ability to effectively manage their businesses

Software: Great Plains, SAGE, QuickBooks, Excel, AS 400

Availability: ?Two weeks

AR/ Billing Specialist (AR)

South Minneapolis area and open to onsite

$62-67K perm or temp to hire placement

Industry Experience: Medical Supply, Construction, Insurance

Career Experience:

Coordinate, generate and process timely billing via various methods (postal mail, e-mail, intercompany, credit card) utilizing SalesForce to generate invoices, create invoice schedules, and update customer records.

Apply payments, generate aging reports and research aging issues via Great Plains.

Retrieving and tracking service agreements via various portals, and through collaboration with case managers of various states and counties.

Maintain, edit and improve internal subscription customer spreadsheet for intercompany use and collaboration.

Identify aging issues and figuring out best methods of communication and collaboration for timely collection.

Other responsibilities include depositing checks via bank scanner, mail sorting and delivery, special projects, month-end reconciliation, reporting on actuals, general customer service and more.

Retrieve and process intercompany billing for all service and install calls, including proofing technician field billing and coding.

Calculating appropriate sales tax and breaking out price-per-line-item.

Tallying sales via Excel spreadsheet for technician commission payments.

Utilize QuickBooks to reconcile company bank statements, record journal entries, and produce statements for customers on equipment finance programs.

Review customer equipment rental agreements and calculate potential buy-out offers.

Manage mid-month ACH pulls for all autopay customers, including quality assurance and processing.

Other responsibilities included daily cash drawer balancing, item inventory management, retrieving CC payments, vendor entry setup, cost spreadsheet analysis, up-selling company customer care plan, processing CC payments via telephone, and other general administrative tasks.?

Reported directly to CFO.

Software: Great Plains, SAP, Sage, QuickBooks, Excel

Availability: Immediately

Sr. Accounts Payable Specialist (JK)

Bloomington, MN and open to hybrid positions

$65K perm placement

Industry Experience: Medical Manufacturing, Distribution

Career Experience:??

Implemented a new AP Shared Services Team (3) in MN performing accounts payable processing for twenty (20) of their US sites

Performed as a “working supervisor” supporting my designated five sites

During my tenure, additional sites were transitioned to the MN Shared Services Team without additional headcount

Relocated/transitioned accounts payable processing from Mechanicsburg PA to Minnetonka MN

Hired team members (3) to support high volume 3 way match processing along with expense processing

Expanded the use of ACH payments and decreased the need for wire transfers and manual checks

Resolved complex escalated issues with internal and external customers

Software Experience: JDE, SAGE, Oracle

Availability: Immediately

AP Specialist (BU)

Crystal, MN and open to onsite and hybrid positions

$60-65K perm or temp to hire placement

Industry experience: 10+ years of Retail, Non-profit, IT

Career Experience:

Accounts payable, vendor invoices and disbursement filing.

Code documents that require knowledge in determining proper classification of accounting codes.

Answers vendor inquiries in reference to payments, data, receipt of goods, etc.

Maintains updated vendor files.

Sets up and maintains complex records and filing system of accounts payable vendor files and other financial records, including invoices for retrieval or review by auditors.

Process payments via check, ACH, wires and credit card as required.

W-9 processing and tracking.

Performs investigative transactions to ensure that payments are processed within budget amounts and have proper approval.

Route non-three-way match and non-two-way match invoices for approval based on current delegation of authority policy.?

Follow-up on invoices that are in route.

Month end and auditing duties.

Assisted employees with reconciling, opening and terminating accounts as well as resolving fraud cases.

Creation of procedures and instructions related to my job duties.?

Software Experience: SAP, Concur, Great Plains, Cognos, Oracle, Navision, AS400, Salesforce

Availability:? Immediately

Bookkeeper/ Accountant (KC)

Savage, MN and open to hybrid positions

$70-75K perm or temp to hire placement

Industries: 8 years of Retail experience

Career Experience:

Responsible for all A/R billing, collections and deposits, verification of deliveries with shipping documents.?

Set up a program for new customer credit privileges

Responsible for A/P invoice entry, comparing bills to company's purchase orders, investigate anomalies working with suppliers, issue and mail check payments.?

Updated sales tax rates quarterly into the POS system, Windward

HR responsibilities included new hire onboarding, termination paperwork, managing benefit enrollment and renewals, process timesheets and biweekly payroll.?

Calculated monthly salesperson excel commission reports

Was an integral participant in a major acquisition of another lighting showroom into the company Received warehouse inventory transfers weekly,?

Received direct shipped inventory into the POS system, performed analysis freight charges

Software Experience:? Great Plains, Oracle, Kronos, QuickBooks

Availability:? Immediately