Staff Accountant Job at Setra

Setra Boxborough, MA 01719

The Staff Accountant for Setra is responsible for maintaining financial reporting, records, and general ledger accounts. This person is needed in month end and quarter end financial closes involving journal entries, account reconciliations, and Sarbanes-Oxley testing. A successful staff accountant must have a strong focus on accuracy/timeliness, strive for continuous improvement, and be a collaborative teammate.

Key responsibilities:
Preparing journal entries, analyses, account reconciliations, and critical part of the monthly closing process
Collaborating with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable team for invoicing, cash application, AR reconciliations, and cash collections support
Maintaining documentation for accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed assets
Performing annual Sarbanes-Oxley testing requirements
Assist with accounting projects and related special projects as requires
Drive quarter end tax reporting process

QUALIFICATIONS:
Critical Success Factors:
Excellent interpersonal skills - collaborative with internal/external customers, team members, and cross-functional partners
Effective communications skills – including written, verbal and listening skills
Strong analytical skills to diagnose and troubleshoot complex datasets
Organized, with a strong process and detail focus to deliver high quality and timely results
High energy, bias for action with continuous improvement approach; recognizes and resolves issues
Team-player attitude with the ability and willingness to take on challenges
Excellent computer skills, particularly MS Excel

Required Skills/Experience:
A minimum of 2 years relevant work experience

Desired Skills/Experience:
ERP system experience (JDE and HFM ideal)
Accounting work experience for a manufacturing company

Education:
Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
Proven understanding of US GAAP

TRAVEL: 0% of overnight travel required for the position.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Critical Success Factors:
Excellent interpersonal skills - collaborative with internal/external customers, team members, and cross-functional partners
Effective communications skills – including written, verbal and listening skills
Strong analytical skills to diagnose and troubleshoot complex datasets
Organized, with a strong process and detail focus to deliver high quality and timely results
High energy, bias for action with continuous improvement approach; recognizes and resolves issues
Team-player attitude with the ability and willingness to take on challenges
Excellent computer skills, particularly MS Excel

Required Skills/Experience:
A minimum of 2 years relevant work experience

Desired Skills/Experience:
ERP system experience (JDE and HFM ideal)
Accounting work experience for a manufacturing company

Education:
Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
Proven understanding of US GAAP

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ABOUT FORTIVE:
Fortive is a diversified industrial growth company, with a $6B portfolio of market-leading brands. We develop and deliver essential technology for the people who create, implement and accelerate progress. And we achieve this through our people. Our globally diverse team of 24,000 employees is united by a common culture rooted in Fortive Business System (FBS). Exceptional people thrive at Fortive because we build extraordinary teams for extraordinary results. We recruit, develop and retain the best talent available. We shape the future. We innovate to fuel our customers’ success, building better businesses and propelling progress. We are driven to do better. We emphasize continuous improvement and nonstop learning. We are team-oriented. We work together, and we win together. We create an environment based on integrity and action, not politics and bureaucracy.

ABOUT SETRA SYSTEMS:
Setra Systems, Inc. is an Operating Company within the Precision Technologies platform of Fortive Corporation that designs and manufactures a broad line of premium sensing products including humidity, current, vacuum, energy and pressure sensing instruments. Our products are used in a wide variety of applications within the global HVAC/R, Healthcare, Industrial, and Semiconductor markets.

Applicants to and employees of this company are protected under Federal law from discrimination on several bases. Please refer to our Careers page at www.setra.com/careers to learn more.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should ask to speak with a Human Resources representative to request an accommodation.


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