Accounting Analyst

About eShipping

eShipping is a logistics and transportation management company headquartered in Kansas City, MO. We strive to provide best-in-class service to our customers through comprehensive logistics solutions that span domestic and international transportation management, warehousing, distribution, technology, business intelligence and financial services. At our core, we are a people-development company and operate under a service-oriented mission and set of core values that inspire every business decision and every daily interaction. If you're interested in joining this special team or learning more about our growing company visit https://eshipping.biz/. 

Position Summary

This role combines accounting responsibilities with operational analysis, including inventory, leases, fixed assets, cost tracking, accruals, and compliance. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Duties include but are not limited to the following:

•    Administer and maintain lease accounting records, including lease setup, contractual updates, document retention, and reconciliation between lease management software and the general ledger

•    Ensure lease records are complete, accurate, and maintained in accordance with contractual terms and applicable lease accounting requirements

•    Maintain fixed asset records for warehouse and facility equipment, including additions, disposals, transfers, depreciation tracking, and supporting documentation

•    Track construction-in-progress and capital project costs, review expenditures for appropriate capitalization, and support timely project closeout and fixed asset setup

•    Support the month-end close process by preparing journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, variance analysis, and supporting schedules

•    Prepare cash flow analysis and projections to support operational and financial planning

•    Analyze operational costs, inventory activity, equipment costs, and warehouse-related expenses to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improved visibility or control

•    Partner with finance and operations teams to resolve data discrepancies, improve reporting accuracy, and strengthen accounting visibility into operational activity

•    Support internal and external audit requests by preparing schedules, maintaining documentation, and ensuring adherence to internal controls and accounting policies

•    Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes, improve data accuracy, strengthen controls, and enhance reporting efficiency

•    Perform other related duties as assigned

Required Skills and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

•    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail

•    Solid understanding of general accounting and financial reporting principles

•    Knowledge of inventory accounting, fixed assets, lease accounting, and internal controls

•    Understanding of audit processes and compliance requirements

•    Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel

•    Experience with ERP/accounting systems

•    Ability to understand, interpret, and explain accounting data

•    Knowledge of GAAP lease accounting standards (ASC 842) 

•    Strong organizational and time management skills

Minimum Education and Experience

•    Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

•    2–5 years of accounting or finance experience (warehouse, logistics, fixed assets, cost accounting, or audit preferred)

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

•    Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position for at least 50% of the time. The employee needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. The general level of physical activity would be defined as sedentary. The employee is regularly required to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, telephone, copy machine, and printer. Some movements of the hands, arms, and wrists may involve repetitive motions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, estimate, and assess various activities and surroundings.

•    Cognitive/Mental Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to comprehend and use basic language, either written or spoken, to communicate simple and complex information, ideas, and information. The employee is also required to use logic to define problems, collect information, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, interpret information, and deal with abstract variables for unique or unfamiliar situations.  The employee must use problem-solving skills to formulate and apply appropriate courses of action for routine or familiar situations. The employee may be required to perform numerical operations including basic counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing or more complex quantitative calculations.

•    Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job on the business premises, the employee is inside a central heat and air-conditioned office building. The noise level in the work environment is minimal.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of an employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

eShipping LLC is an equal opportunity employer.