Accounting Manager

Job Description

AKHIRE is currently recruiting for the following position :

Accounting Manager

Location - Anchorage, AK

Full-time

Pay - $70,000-90,000 per year

The Accounting Manager is responsible for managing and executing all financial affairs of the company including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, payroll, cost accounting, mileage accounts, monthly accounts receivable report, preparing for state / federal income taxes to go to CPAs, other taxes and other accounting as assigned. The job requires excellent Quickbooks and Excel software skills. Knowledge of ACCESS is also helpful. This job requires a minimum 18 month commitment, although we would like a long term employee.

Other duties include benefits management, insurance, unemployment reporting, rental income reporting and workers' compensation reporting.

The accountant is expected to take the leadership role in all accounting and human resources-related matters including preparing quarterly financial statements and weekly cash flow reports, doing cost accounting for the products published by the company, financial and accounting security and analysis of the financial data generated by the accounting department. The position also is responsible for follow-up on accounts receivable to encourage late paying customers to be fully aware of their debts to the company and collections.

Duties also include paying all personal bills for the company president and handling preparation of his income taxes to go to a CPA with the Subchapter S corporate tax information.

In the first month of each quarter, about 75 payments are made to both consignment publishers and royalty authors / artists / photographers whose work the company publishes. Payments are for revenues received in the preceding quarter. Among these items are books, calendars and note cards.

The company is a 42-year-old publisher, print broker and wholesale book distributor with 12 full-time employees, all in Anchorage except for sales people in Juneau and Fairbanks, where the company has warehouses. Gross revenues are approximately $2 million per year.

It specializes in distribution of books and other printed and electronic media about Alaska. Business is strongest in the late spring through mid-summer due to heavy demand from tourist-oriented businesses. It slows in the fall and winter. Sales are strong to book stores, tourist shops, airport stores and museums.

Benefits

Benefits include most national holidays, two weeks paid vacation at the end of one year and three weeks' vacation at the end of two years. A Health Savings Account (HSA) is available after 90 days. The company also has a SIMPLE IRA program which allows employees to put up to $9,000 of pre-tax salary per year into an IRA. It is matched by an employer contribution of three percent of the employee's income annually.

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