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About the job:

The JMP Finance team is looking for a Senior Associate Accountant.  This individual will be responsible for assisting the team with administration of invoices to customers, including vendor setup registration, tax exemption filing process, and various other requests from customers. Additionally, they will analyze, examine and prepare financial records, ensuring the integrity of accounting information according to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and company policies through recording, verifying, consolidating, reconciling, and entering transactions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Monitor all incoming emails from customers and sales reps via case management tool ensuring they are directed to the correct team members to respond.
• Communicate with customers and vendors concerning invoices and payments, as well as any questions they may have.
• Collaborate with other JMP departments or employees to ensure that Finance guidelines are followed.
• Organize and coordinate the JMP vendor setup process with all JMP customers during the invoicing process.
• Organize and coordinate the US Tax Exemption process with customers and Finance to ensure proper approval, reapplication to invoices, and storage in the exemption certificate system.
• Perform data entry of accounting information and updates as needed by customers, such as updates to PO numbers on invoices, with great accuracy.
• Monitor accounts, invoices, and cash receipts for problems, errors, or delinquencies and resolve appropriately.
• Perform reconciliations of company financial data, research variances, and adjust as needed.
• Enter financial transactions in company financial systems, ensuring they are recorded following company policy and GAAP guidelines
• Identify areas needing improvement and help to implement processes and procedures to streamline operations and support best practices. May run improvement projects
• Assist with auditor inquiries
• Perform and document process control activities. 

 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Customer service centered with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to perform complex problems, using JMP policy and GAAP knowledge, specifically around customer issue resolution.
• Strong attention to details and ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong time management and organizational skills, managing multiple tasks at once.
• Ability to understand and apply GAAP to all transactions.
• Proficiency in Excel.
• NetSuite and Salesforce experience desired.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or related field.
• Equivalent combination of related education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualification.

World-Class Benefits:  

Highlights include...

• Comprehensive medical, prescription, dental and vision plans.
• Medical plan options include...
  • PPO with low annual deductible and copays.
  • HDHP combined with a health savings account with a contribution from SAS (no access to on-site health care center).
• Onsite Health Care Center (HQ) that’s free to employees and family members enrolled in the PPO plan. There's a pharmacy too! Not local to HQ? The pharmacy will ship prescriptions for no additional charge!
• An industry-leading 401k plan.
• Generous time away including vacation time, a variety of paid holidays, and our much-loved U.S. Winter Wellness Break between December 25 and January 1.
• Volunteer Time Off, parental leave and unlimited paid sick days.
• Generous childcare benefits for all full-time employees.

Diverse and Inclusive

At SAS and JMP, it’s not about fitting into our culture – it’s about adding to it. We believe our people make the difference. Our diverse workforce brings together unique talents and inspires teams to create amazing software that reflects the diversity of our users and customers. Our commitment to diversity is a priority to our leadership, all the way up to the top; and it’s essential to who we are. To put it plainly: you are welcome here.

 Additional Information:

JMP is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. Read more: Know Your Rights. 

Equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered in place of the above qualifications. Resumes may be considered in the order they are received. JMP employees performing certain job functions may require access to technology or software subject to export or import regulations. To comply with these regulations, JMP may obtain nationality or citizenship information from applicants for employment. JMP collects this information solely for trade law compliance purposes and does not use it to discriminate unfairly in the hiring process.

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.

All valid JMP job openings are located on the Careers page at www.jmp.com. JMP and SAS only send emails from verified “jmp.com” and "sas.com" email addresses and never ask for sensitive, personal information or money. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of any type of communication from, for, or on behalf of JMP, please contact us at Recruitingsupport@sas.com before taking any further action.

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