Accountant

Job Description

Accountant | The Save Mart Companies

The Tone:
This is a full-time Accountant role at The Save Mart Companies, located in Modesto, CA. The Save Mart Companies operates over 200 grocery stores across California, Western Nevada, Oregon, and Washington under various banners like Save Mart, Lucky, and FoodMaxx, supported by 11,000 associates dedicated to providing the freshest food for families at affordable prices. This position is essential for performing in-depth financial analysis, maintaining accurate financial records, and ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), directly enabling executives to make informed strategic business decisions that support the company’s regional operations and community contributions through The CARES Foundation.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Modesto, CA
• Pay: $48110–$58032 annually
• Mission: To independently maintain accurate records of financial transactions by establishing accounts, preparing journal entries, balancing ledgers, and reconciling accounts, while analyzing large volumes of financial data to enable sound business decisions and ensure compliance with GAAP.
• Tech Stack: Excel, Word, 10-key

What You’ll Actually Do
• Execute Accounting Functions: Provide analysis while performing accounting functions, including establishing accounts, preparing journal entries, balancing ledgers, and reconciling accounts in a deadline-oriented environment.
• Ensure Financial Accuracy: Conduct analysis of various operational financial statements, including stores, cost centers, distribution centers, and transportation facilities, to ensure their accuracy and to analyze consolidated financial results.
• Maintain Vendor & Tax Compliance: Take responsibility for timely and accurate processing of vendor maintenance within the financial management ERP and ensure all business taxes and licenses are current and compliant with Federal, State, and Local requirements.
• Manage Inventory & Shrink Analysis: Perform cost-of-sales computations, calculate gross profit margins, ensure accurate inventory recording, and analyze unidentified shrink to determine root causes and implement solutions with business owners.
• Support Financial Oversight: Act as a liaison to various business units, assisting management in understanding financial results, and provide support for both internal and external financial audits.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A 4-year Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/training is required, alongside a strong understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Experience: Requires 0 years of experience, but candidates must demonstrate an ability to work at an intermediate accounting level with a strong foundational understanding of financial statements.
• Skills: Possess strong fact-finding abilities and knowledge of GAAP, coupled with the capacity to analyze information, deal with complexity, and produce reports. Demonstrates strong attention to detail, integrity, and the ability to work at an intermediate accounting level. Possesses intermediate computer skills (Excel and Word) and proficiency in 10-key and calculation skills. The role demands the ability to work in a fast-paced, busy environment, multi-task effectively under tight deadlines while maintaining focus, and requires occasional Saturday work and overtime.