Staff Accountant

POSITION: Staff Accountant

SunWorks Overview

Sunworks is a leading private equity-backed commercial landscape maintenance company. Sunworks is building a national platform by acquiring market-leading local businesses with great cultures, attracting the best technical and managerial talent, and creating unmatched growth opportunities for our people. Over the past year, Sunworks has acquired six commercial landscaping companies in Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Texas. Our companies provide recurring landscape maintenance services to corporate campuses, universities, office parks, retail centers, light industrial properties, and homeowners associations. With strong organic growth and an aggressive acquisition strategy, we aim to build the largest privately held commercial landscaping businesses in the country. Sunworks is part of Orion Services Group, a national field services provider with 23 partner companies in the HVAC, commercial landscaping, and facility maintenance industries. Sunworks is backed by Alpine Investors, a private equity firm specializing in middle market companies in the services and software industries.

Position Overview

We are looking for a skilled staff accountant to join our accounting department. The staff accountant's responsibilities include maintaining financial records and reports, performing account reconciliations, maintaining accounts receivable / accounts payable documentation and assisting with budget and close processes. You will also be assisting the Corporate Controller as needed and respond to information requests by management and for auditing purposes.

The successful candidate should be able to accurately maintain a general ledger and ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).  The ideal candidate will have the ability and desire to grow and take on additional diverse responsibilities.

Staff Accountant Responsibilities:

• Maintaining financial reports, records, and general ledger accounts.
• Preparing journal entries, analyses, and account reconciliations and assisting with monthly close processes.
• Maintaining documentation for accounts receivable, accounts payable, purchasing, and treasury and conducting internal audits.
• Performing monthly balance sheet reconciliations.
• Contributing to the development and review of annual operating budgets and performance projections.
• Meeting processing and reporting deadlines.
• Responding to information requests, reviewing financial statements, and assisting with audits.
• Ensuring compliance with GAAP.
• Assisting the Corporate Controller with cash forecasting, weekly gross margin analysis, and other ad hoc analyses as needed.
• Developing and implementing accounting procedures by analyzing current procedures; recommending changes.
• Analyzing financial information to identify and research variances and provide explanations (written & verbal) to stake holders/management
• Ability to work independently, seek areas for improvement, implement process and/or policy changes
• Assisting the Corporate Controller with Payroll support

Core Skills / Experience

• Academic background
  • Bachelors degree with emphasis in Accounting (strongly preferred)
  • Bachelors degree in Finance, Economics or General Business with 12+ hours of Accounting
  • Associates degree in accounting, finance, business with 5+ years relevant work experience
• Minimum 2 years of accounting/bookkeeping experience
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP.
• Working knowledge of Work-in-Process accounting
• Strong numeracy and analytical skills.
• Advanced Excel skills including V-Lookups & Pivot Tables.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good problem-solving and time management skills.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Payroll experience desired; ADP a plus.