Gerdau is currently seeking a Corporate Accountant for its Tampa, FL Office. (Requisition #: 188753)
This position works with both the Manager and Director of Corporate Accounting and is intimately involved in the monthly closing process. The incumbent should have or will develop an intimate knowledge of the Company’s systems to include SAP, OENT system, Lawson Software Suite, and various PC software applications.
The incumbent will assist the Corporate Accounting Manager in the accounting functions of the corporate office. These functions include month-end closing process, internal controls and audit, general ledger account reconciliations, and management reporting. This position will work in close coordination and cooperation with all levels of corporate personnel, operating unit personnel, and internal and external auditors.
Responsibilities:
- Perform month end duty tasks and analyzing financial and statistical data
- Act as a liaison between corporate accounting and plant personnel for accounting issue resolution
- Assist with monthly closing and financial reporting by preparing routine and non-routine journal entries, standard accruals, allocations and statistics
- Review system generated journal entries, including statistics, for accuracy and reasonableness from in-house software systems interfaced to the Lawson general ledger.
- Reconcile and maintain various general ledger accounts.
- Prepare quarterly and annual footnotes for consolidated reporting to Gerdau, S.A. (parent company)
- Stay abreast of current accounting standards.
- Assist with internal and external audits.
- Assist with and ensure compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.
- Verify and interface data from external data sources and sub-systems.
- Work with users and internal customers to meet their needs for information and data requests.
- Conduct research across business systems and make appropriate corrections and adjustments.
- Design simple to complex data queries and manipulate the data for analysis and database changes.
Qualifications include:
- Bachelor’s Degree in accounting is required
- Public accounting and “Big 4” experience is required
- 3+ years accounting experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment
- Hands on experience with general accounting, cost accounting, financial reporting, month end reporting and internal controls
- Proficient with Microsoft’s Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
- SAP preferred
- CPA preferred
Gerdau offers opportunities for advancement in an ever challenging, high-tech environment. We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the opportunity to grow with a world-class, multinational company. We recognize the contributions of our team members and provide opportunities for advancement.
Gerdau offers excellent benefits that start the FIRST DAY OF EMPLOYMENT!
Medical and Prescription
Dental
Vision
Health & Dependent Care (Flexible Spending Account)
401K
Basic Life/Accidental Life Insurance
Health Advocate Services
Employee Assistance Program
Tuition Reimbursement Program
Gerdau is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, committed to diversifying its workforce. All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the country of hire without current or future sponsorship.
Interested? Visit our website: www.gerdauameristeel.com
Gerdau Long Steel North America is a leader in mini-mill steel production and steel recycling in North America, with an annual manufacturing capacity of approximately 10 million metric tons of mill finished steel products. Through a vertically integrated network of mini-mills, scrap recycling facilities and downstream operations, the company serves customers throughout the U.S. and Canada, offering a diverse and balanced product mix of merchant steel, rebar, structural shapes, fabricated steel, flat rolled steel and wire rod.
We believe our employees are the best in the business. We have high standards and our employees constantly strive to reach even higher levels of success. Gerdau growth is based on our values and on a vision focused on excellence. We see customer satisfaction, the personal and professional growth of each employee, total safety in the workplace, a commitment to our stakeholders, employees, and communities, and profit as a measure of performance.
