Urban Outfitters Apply – Staff Accountant

Job Description:

The Staff Accountant will support store and ecommerce channels of the Urban Outfitters Brand in all financial and accounting aspects that directly affects the operational results.

Job Responsibilities:

• Prepare and maintain balance sheet account reconciliations
• Work with brand finance team/division related projects
• Assist in the generation, preparation and review of monthly financial statements/packages, as well as various internal and external reporting documents
• Record, reconcile and analyze monthly activity in various balance sheet and income statement accounts (including ad hoc analyses)
• Ensure compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley financial reporting requirements with respect to monthly duties
• Support all other aspects of the monthly and quarterly financial close process.
• Prepare and maintain expense trackers for operational departments.
• Assist and prepare the annual operational budgets of assigned expense item responsibilities as needed
• Consistently recommend and implement improvements to current methodologies and practices.
• Provide ongoing accounting/finance support to brand partners as liaison between brand and corporate shared service teams
• Review management and operating reports to identify trends and develop benchmarking metrics
• Analyze actual results, investigate and explain variance explanations vs budget & previous year

Job Requirements:

• Highly detail oriented with strong organizational skills
• Strong sense of accountability and ownership, proactive problem-solving skills.
• Well-developed problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to comprehend and analyze financial statements, financial journals, reports, reconciliations, and other related documents
• Capable of managing multiple deliverables and ability to seamlessly transition among team
• Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting or related field
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Minimum 1-2 years of accounting experience; Retail experience a plus
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peer group, brand personnel and executive level management
• Highly proficient in MS Excel and ability to learn accounting software packages; Knowledge of Oracle and/or Hyperion a strong plus

Job Details:

Company: Urban Outfitters

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Philadelphia, PA, US

Application Deadline: N/A

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