Sr. Staff Accountant

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Staff Accountant to join a food distribution organization in Ontario, California on a Contract basis. This position plays a key role in maintaining accurate financial records, supporting timely close activities, and strengthening the reliability of reporting across a high-volume business. The ideal candidate brings strong general ledger expertise, sound analytical judgment, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams while helping improve accounting processes.

Responsibilities:

• Lead critical close-cycle activities by preparing and recording journal entries, accruals, recurring entries, and account reclassifications to ensure accurate monthly and annual reporting.

• Complete detailed balance sheet and bank reconciliations, investigate variances or exceptions, and resolve outstanding items within established deadlines.

• Review general ledger activity and financial fluctuations across reporting periods, then summarize issues and recommended adjustments for management.

• Monitor company card transactions to confirm proper support, coding, approvals, and period accuracy before recording activity in the ledger.

• Evaluate customer and vendor transactions, including receivable balances, credits, deductions, rebates, billbacks, and promotional program accounting.

• Support disbursement processing by coordinating vendor payments in line with approved schedules, documentation standards, and internal control requirements.

• Assist with inventory-related accounting by analyzing adjustments, cost movement, shrinkage, obsolete stock, and cut-off accuracy as needed.

• Prepare sales and use tax filings for applicable jurisdictions and maintain organized schedules to support reported amounts.

• Oversee assigned accounting work completed by offshore support resources, review output for quality and timeliness, and provide direction where needed.

• Contribute to audits, fixed asset and lease accounting activities, system implementation efforts, and other ad hoc financial projects or process improvement initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of progressive accounting experience, preferably within food distribution, wholesale, consumer products, or another inventory-intensive environment.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, general ledger accounting, month-end close, journal entries, and account reconciliation processes.
• Experience handling balance sheet reconciliations, bank reconciliations, variance analysis, and financial statement support.
• Familiarity with sales and use tax compliance, customer deductions, billbacks, rebates, or similar transactional accounting activities.
• Advanced Excel skills, including formulas, lookups, pivot tables, and analysis of large data sets.
• Experience using accounting or ERP systems, with additional exposure to inventory or distribution platforms preferred.
• Proven ability to coordinate work across remote or offshore team members while managing priorities independently and maintaining accuracy.

Compensation

$30.00-$34.00 Hourly

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