Sr Accountant

We are seeking a highly motivated, detail-oriented senior accountant who can manage the accounting process related to payroll, intercompany, royalties, third party revenue and other system-related transactions. Responsibilities include processing journal entries, completing month end close, audit support, executing internal controls and completing timely account reconciliations, reviews, and analysis.

Bluestem Brands is the parent company to four eCommerce retail brands. We have one mission: to build a dynamic retail enterprise that wins with direct-to-consumer excellence and entrepreneurial-minded employees focused on serving our customers' unique needs. Our leadership is responsive and supportive, empowering those smart and passionate employees who drive our success. We are continually innovating and improving we take risks, learn from mistakes, and celebrate success as a team.

We empower each employee to put the customer first and our culture of ensuring all employees have an impact enables an entrepreneurial passion. No matter what stage of your career, you'll make an impact on business results and interface with key leaders. We are seeking a Compliance Manager to join our Compliance team and support its growing business! Our compliance group helps educate and guide stakeholders, to help mitigate risk at Bluestem Brands. This team is highly skilled in the business side of compliance and focuses on financial services and retail operations, regulatory compliance, risk management, and testing and training.

The role will have Bluestem Brands responsibility working with both the Fingerhut and Orchard business divisions; this is a hybrid role located at our Corporate Headquarters in Eden Prairie.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Area of Responsibility Within Accounting Department:

• Labor & Payroll Accounting
• Intercompany transactions
• Third party AR and Revenue
• Trademark Royalties
• System recons
• Month end financial reporting tie outs

Detailed list of actions for each area of responsibility:

• Coordinate activities within the month end close process to include maintaining a detailed checklist on SharePoint, communicating with business partners, and proactively troubleshooting issues as they arise throughout the close.
• Improve the close process by working with various departments to identify efficiencies.
• Export data from sub-systems, calculate, design, and validate journal entries.
• Upload journal entries into Oracle and Infinium accounting systems, including reviewing for accuracy, and providing sufficient detailed support.
• Become expert in applicable applications with ability to troubleshoot or design new corporate strategies.
• Maintain detailed excel models using actuals, estimates and assumptions while keeping current on non-standard events to anticipate proper accounting treatment, eventually designing new models.
• Manage accruals and allocations with expectation of changing methodology periodically.
• Complete timely account reconciliations each month, including detailed variance explanations of specific accounts. Research reconciling items, follow account reconciliation policy closely and partner with business to identify process improvements.
• Coordinate requested items for internal and external audits.
• Continue to develop process improvements around current processes.
• Support various business partners when questions arise. Work closely with HR and Payroll Departments.
• Maintain documentation throughout year as changes occur frequently.
• Develop controls to improve integrity of accounting and related reporting.
• Assist with monthly variance explanations.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting
• 5+ years of accounting experience
• Advanced Excel skills: (Pivot tables, embedded "if/then" statements, macros)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Public accounting experience
• Knowledge of UKG (Back office, Time tracking, payroll processing, BI, Standard Reports, Labor allocations or GL exports)
• Experience with Payroll processing/accounting
• Infinium experience
• Oracle experience
• Hyperion Essbase experience
• Knowledge of intercompany transactions

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BLST Operating Company (Bluestem Brands) is a group of FinTech, and eCommerce Retail businesses (www.bluestem.com) led by our Fingerhut and Orchard Portfolios. This position falls under the Fingerhut - a long-standing fintech company. Check out www.fingerhut.com to see who we are and what we do for our customers. Fingerhut fuses our extensive years of data modeling and real-time analytics through machine learning to provide flexible payment options for our valued customers looking to establish, build, or rebuild credit. Qualifying customers use their accounts for e-Commerce purchases at fingerhut.com for everything they and their family need across a broad selection of national brands.

At Fingerhut, you will enter a culture that encourages team members to be bold and courageous. A culture that is zealous in pursuit of our mission to help our customers live a better financial life. In this culture, our team members find opportunities to stretch themselves, have a voice that is valued and is listened to have a sizeable impact on the business, work cross-functionally and collaboratively. We are continually innovating and improving, challenging ourselves to take risks, learn from mistakes, and celebrate success as a team. We also grow careers, giving employees on-the-job stretch assignments, lateral moves to expand knowledge bases, and promotional opportunities that help to accelerate development.