Junior Accountant

Sumitomo Electric USA Holdings, Inc. is looking for a Junior Accountant to work in our New City York office.  This person will report to Treasurer.  The responsibility of this position is to take care of general accounting for our Accounting Department in our New York office (100%).

Job Duties and Responsibilities

-        General Accounting duties include but not limit to followings:

o    Verify the accuracy of invoices and other accounting documents and records.

o    Update and maintain accounting journals, ledgers, and other records detailing financial business transaction (i.e. disbursements, expense vouchers, receipts, accounts payable).

o    Resolve discrepancies if there are any.

o    Investigates questionable data.

o    Perform other general accounting duties as assigned.

o    Check and supervise Accounting associate tasks such as AP, AR and bank reconciliation etc.

o    Follow established procedures and guidelines to accurately maintain the company’s financial records and transactions.

o    Complete assigned daily ledger entries and other financial transactions in accordance with accounting principles so that the general ledger is accurate and up-to-date.

o    Collect and compile simple financial information and assist senior accountants to prepare accurate and timely financial reports and accounting statements for senior management.

o    Report to our parent company every quarter in our internal system.

o    Carefully verify and approve the accuracy of expense reports and business trip reports submitted by employees in Expense Management System.

o    Improve Expense Management System based on previous experience by communicating with IT system department.

o    Prepare daily funding material to decide and allocate loans from banks.

o    Check daily cash management activities and prepare materials for interest rate calculation.

o    Maintain bank signers up to date and update them when requested by subsidiaries.

o    Update our online banking users, access setting, and other settings as a system administrator when requested by subsidiaries.

o    Communicate with our online banking provider efficiently when there are issues.

o    Implement new services in our online banking systems.

o    Assist the department to implement a new accounting system.

o    Provide auditors with necessary documents and answer their questions at the time of audit.