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Join the Follett Team, where employees are valued, respected, and offered career paths throughout its many campus locations.
Follett serves over half of the students in the United States and works with 80,000 schools as a leading provider of education technology, services, print, and digital content. We’re higher education’s largest campus retailer and a hub for school spirit and community as we operate nearly 1,200 local campus stores and over 1,600 virtual stores across the continent. We take pride in the fact that for more than 140 years, we have been helping to improve people’s lives by supporting a lifetime of learning and education.
We are looking for a results-driven Senior Accountant to join the Follett team. The Senior Accountant is a detailed and hands-on role within Follett Higher Education (FHE) Accounting, responsible for the preparation of month-end journal entries and reconciliations, execution of departmental processes, and collaboration with team members.
Responsibilities
* Prepare and record journal entries related to the balance sheet and income statement activity, utilizing and applying knowledge of Accounting to assigned tasks (e.g., Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and as well as company policies).
* Primary owner of commission (revenue share) processes, including daily partner payment files, one-time contractual payments, store opening set-up, and store closure procedures.
* Preparing calculations and payment, evaluating new contracts and amendments to understand implications on reporting and preparation, and reporting on status and variances or issues.
* Collaborate with other team members to provide guidance and analysis on various commissions/contract-related requests.
* Communicate cross-departmentally within Follett and with accounting management when required.
* Communicate commission statements/reports to partners.
* Utilization of strong critical thinking skills to evaluate processes and calculations to identify errors and demonstrates initiative to resolve errors.
* Coordinate audit request support with management for internal and external audits.
* Reconcile all assigned balance sheet accounts and perform financial statement variance analysis.
* Assists/implements company initiatives, process improvements, and special projects.
* Create analytical schedules supporting financial statements, audits, initiatives, ad hoc requests, etc.
* 5-7 years of general accounting experience: month-end close, reconciliations, variance analysis.
* Advanced knowledge of Excel.
* Experience reviewing and interpreting contracts is a plus.
* Experience with improving processes, identifying opportunities for automation, and having an eye for working smarter.
* Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of Access.
* Experience in the Retail Method of Accounting is a plus.
* At times during the monthly or year-end financial close additional hours may be required.
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