Who We Are:
At Convivial Brands, everything we do revolves around Making Life Better - which includes creating opportunities, products, and a culture that strives to do just that. The physical products we make help people celebrate and enhance life, sometimes in small, quaint ways, and other times in big statements. From celebrating a wedding to giving a small gift of appreciation, each brand produces an end product that intends to make life friendly, lively, and jovial - ergo making life Convivial. This is achieved through operating within our Core Values of being trustworthy, pursuing excellence, and exemplifying a team first mindset. Those three values are what guides our day-to-day operations and ensures we are moving in the right direction the right way. As our brands continue to expand and grow, we're looking to add new team members who can not just maintain our culture, but can add value and help us continually improve. Our goal is to transform work from an obligation to passion!
As we continue to grow, we're now looking to add an experienced Staff Accountant to our Convivial team!
Position Summary: As the Staff Accountant, you will provide both administrative and financial support services in a multi-entity environment as a key member to the Finance & Accounting team. You will work to provide support across the finance team in a professional and knowledgeable manner, learning both the accounting and operational activities of the organization.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Always conduct self in a manner consistent with Convivial Brands' Core Values of being Trustworthy, Pursuing Excellence, and exemplifying a Team First mindset.
- Become an expert in the intercompany relationship of Convivial Brands family of companies.
- Become a leader in the shared services environment of the Convivial Brands family of companies.
- Ownership of commission & rebate payment process, quarterly royalty payments, disbursement cycle for all companies, and vendor ledgers and 1099 process.
- Maintains and validates A/P subledger and vendor accounts.
- Becomes a key member of cash management & forecast team, working in close collaboration with operational partners to effectively manage inventory ordering cycles.
- Processes vendor invoices daily.
- Effectively manages email inboxes and resolves incoming items daily.
- Supports month end closing activities.
- Posts journal entries and reconciles general ledger accounts.
- Processes monthly bank account reconciliations.
- Acts as a champion of documentation and continuous improvements on internal financial processes.
What's in it for you?
- You'll be joining a growing finance team and have the opportunity to help establish key systems and processes, as well as the opportunity for growth as the company continues to grow.
- Our office functions on a hybrid model - employees are required to be in office on Monday and Thursday, but all other days can be remote with the approval of your Manager.
- We offer competitive pay and benefits! We have 8 company-paid holidays, a generous Paid Time Off Bank (PTO), and our benefits are robust and affordable. Full-time employees currently get company-paid life insurance (1 timesThis your annual salary) and company-paid short-term and long-term disability. We also offer extras like legal coverage, identitiy protection, and pet insurance! And let's not forget the employee discounts that we offer on each of our brands' products/services - Design Design, Style Life, Verdant Graphics, Tableau, and The High Five Grand Rapids.
Convivial Brands Diversity & Inclusion Statement:
Convivial Brands is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our people are our most valuable asset. our employees' individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities and talent - and the way they invest their unique identities in their work - are a significant part of our culture, our reputation, and our achievements. We embrace and encourage our team members' differences in age, colore, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristices that make our team members unique. Convivial Brands' diversity initiatives apply to all parts of the employment experience, including but not limited to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection; compensation and benefits; professional development and training; promotions; social and recreational programs; layoffs and separations; and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
If you're ready to make a difference by joining our mission to Make Life Better, we invite you to apply!
