Our company culture is built upon YKK’s philosophy called the CYCLE OF GOODNESS™.  We believe that providing value and being fair to our customers and our employees is what makes us a successful company in return.  Guided by our core values and fundamental behaviors, we strive to foster a caring company, committed employees and challenging work that benefits our employees, customers, and communities. We offer competitive compensation packages, training and advancement opportunities. YKK AP America provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package designed to provide the security they need to enjoy life at home and at work.  By providing a high level of benefit coverage at a reasonable cost to the employee, we hope to foster a long and productive employment relationship.

Position Summary

Position will be directly responsible for overseeing accounting responsibilities and using various analytical skills to monitor and analyze financial and accounting data. Also, this position is responsible for account reconciliations, and the oversight of the accuracy of sales taxes and freight charges to customers for proper revenue recognition. The position requires strong communication skills both internally and externally to understand the concepts and requirements of the sales tax and the ability to explain corrective action to the branch managers and/or customers. The position requires a great emphasis on details present findings to management. The position is actively involved in the month-end close, and year-end audit. To be successful, this position needs to be detailed oriented and have an excellent understanding of GAAP and internal control concepts. 

Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities

• Preparing and analyzing financial, accounting, and production data for both the monthly reporting specifically for revenue recognition and the preparation of journal entries.
• Preparing and filing of sales tax reports, discrepancies reports, and TAX2000 to the CPA firm monthly. On the discrepancies reports, include the explanation of what needs to be corrected/adjusted and why.
• Ensuring compliance with GAAP accounting standards, Company’s internal control procedures and practices. 
• Reviewing and analyzing revenue transactions for completeness and accuracy.
• Verifying and reconciling the accuracy of various accounts. Required to understand account definition, reason for transactions, and identify the correct source document. Reconciling items need to be identified, investigated, and properly adjusted.
• Responsible for the month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Coordinating the preparing sales report by branch offices. Submit the report to the cross-functional team including senior leadership. Answer and inspect any discrepancies if any inquiries are received.  
• Analyzing accounts for accruals; managing sales tax issues related to invoices.
• Assisting in annual Financial and JSOX audits. Analyzing and recommending controls, identifying risk areas and/or improperly handled transactions and advising and recommending the strengthening of internal control.
• Providing guidance to the branch offices on taxes, credit/debit memos, etc.
• Investigating any additional requirements for sales tax by state/county/city and determine a procedure to be put in place on invoice issuance to meet compliance. 

Qualifications and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting
• 3 - 5 years of related professional experience
• Basic sales tax knowledge is a plus
• Ability to apply a broad range of accounting principles, practices, and procedures
• Microsoft Office experience required
• Detail oriented
• Problem-solving and strong analytical skills
• Effective communication skills (with both internal and external) verbally and in writing
• Ability to meet deadlines and an initiative-taker
• Must be able to work independently
• Be vigilant about safety
• Quality - conscious, oriented to excellence

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Recruiter Contact:

ASHLEY LITTLE

ASHLEYLITTLE@YKKAP.COM

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YKK AP America Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (Opens in a new window).

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YKK AP America Inc. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can follow the process outlined below when applying for a position: Provide your name and contact information to YKK AP's  Accommodations team at accommodationrequest@ykkap.com. Your request will be responded to as soon as possible. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Employment with YKK AP America Inc. is conditioned upon successfully completing a negative drug test for the presence of illegal drugs.