Senior Accountant (e-Commerce, Contract)
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Description
- The consultant will support full-cycle accounting for the online store, from customer orders and inventory movement through revenue, cost of goods sold, accounts receivable, cash application, refunds, and financial reporting
- This role will partner with Accounting, Operations, E-commerce, Supply Chain, and IT to resolve reconciliation and system-integration issues involving e-commerce, order management, inventory, payment, and SAP platforms
- Own full-cycle accounting for online store activity, including inventory, sales, cost of goods sold, accounts receivable, cash, refunds, credits, and related balance sheet accounts
- Perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and review of transaction completeness and accuracy
- Reconcile inventory subledger activity to SAP, including receipts, transfers, adjustments, returns, write-offs, and inventory reserves where applicable
- Review and reconcile cost of goods sold to product sales and inventory movement, investigating unusual margins, timing differences, and data issues
- Support the complete order-to-cash cycle, including sales orders, fulfillment, billing, revenue recognition, customer receivables, refunds, credits, and cash application
- Reconcile payment processor and bank activity to customer orders, accounts receivable, and SAP postings; research unmatched or failed transactions
- Partner with Operations, E-commerce, Supply Chain, IT, and Finance teams to understand transaction flows across multiple systems and ensure accurate accounting in SAP
- Investigate integration issues between sales, order management, inventory/warehouse, payment, and SAP systems, and determine the accounting impact of incomplete, duplicated, delayed, or incorrect transactions
- Participate in system implementations, integration changes, user acceptance testing, and validation of automated accounting entries and interfaces
- Develop and maintain reconciliation tools and controls to confirm that data transferred between operational systems and SAP is complete and accurate
- Identify root causes of accounting and system issues, coordinate resolution with technical and operational teams, and help prevent recurring problems
- Create and maintain process documentation, system flow documentation, and internal controls for online store accounting processes
- Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and strengthen accounting processes as online store activity and systems evolve
- Experience working with e-commerce platforms, order management systems, warehouse/inventory systems, payment processors, or system integrations is a plus
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Approximately 2–6 years of accounting experience, preferably including inventory, revenue, order-to-cash, e-commerce, retail, or consumer product accounting
- Ability to understand end-to-end transaction flows and translate operational or system issues into accounting impacts
- Strong Excel and data analysis skills, with the ability to work through large transaction populations and identify exceptions
- Experience with SAP strongly preferred; experience with other large ERP systems is also valuable
- Strong understanding of general ledger accounting, reconciliations, month-end close, inventory accounting, revenue, accounts receivable, and cash