Accounting Specialist

As an Accounting Specialist at Omni Channel Solutions, your role is pivotal in ensuring seamless financial operations for our client. In order to keep accurate financial records, you must coordinate replies to requests from clients and vendors and closely monitor purchase orders, client budgets, and actual expenses. Having regular meetings with internal stakeholders helps you communicate effectively and discuss and resolve accounting-related issues.

Maintaining spreadsheets, general ledgers, accounts payable files, and reports are further daily responsibilities. You play an important role in ensuring that everyone is in agreement about the terms of payment and in coordinating day-to-day correspondence about contracts, statements of work, and client invoices. Your commitment to investigating and correcting discrepancies, tracking expense reports, monitoring project hours and client profitability, and ensuring timely client invoice preparation contributes to the financial success of the client.

DAILY TASKS

• Coordinating and responding to client/vendor requests, resolving issues, and delivering exceptional levels of service

• Track POs, client budgets and actual spend for our clients as required

• Meeting with all internal stakeholders regularly to discuss their accounting related matters

• Maintain all accounts payable reports, spreadsheets, general ledger, and accounts payable files

• Update receivables by totaling unpaid invoices

• Partner with internal teams to ensure client accounts are accurate and up to date and ensure all parties are aligned on payment expectations

• Day to day communication with internal departments regarding client invoicing, statement of works and contracts.

• Investigate and make corrections where required

• Track expense reports

• Track hours per project, per client against profitability

• Prepare and send client invoices in a timely manner as per client’s process

• Assist central Finance team with month end processes as required

• Maintain validity of any necessary or mandated platform or partner certifications that are required of your role

• Assist with ad-hoc projects and tasks as required

• Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally within Channel Bakers and other key stakeholder.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum 3+ years’ experience in full-cycle accounting or finance role

• Minimum bachelor’s degree Finance, Accounting, or related area of study

• Advertising or Marketing agency experience preferred but not essential.

• Sound data and analytical skills.

• Strong communicator

• Experience of using QuickBooks

• Proficient user of standard office software (MS Office etc).

• Advanced Excel skills essential