Chumash Employee Resource Center Hiring For SENIOR ACCOUNTANT at Santa Ynez, CA Full Time

Starting Pay Rate: $78,874 – $98,593/Annually, DOE

The Senior Accountant completes a wide variety of complex accounting, financial data processing, and financial reporting functions. This includes general ledger accounting, financial reporting, financial and operations analyses. Mentors and provides support to GL Accountant.

Primary Duties, Responsibilities, and Tasks:

• Responsible for the effective handling of accounting records in compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Reconciles assigned balance sheet accounts, including streamlining balance sheet reconciliations and expense analysis schedules.
• Produces assigned journal entries to record enterprise transactions and ensures proper reconciliation with supporting documentation.
• Responsible for month end closing assignments.
• Responsible for the research and completion of financial and operations analyses.
• Responsible for interfacing with appropriate internal and external departments, agencies, and companies to ensure accuracy of financial records.
• Receives, collects, balances, and verifies computer accounting data for completeness and accuracy.
• Maintains awareness for discrepancies or suspicious circumstances and investigates as required.
• Mentors General Ledger Accountant and other accounting clerical personnel, including training and problem resolution.
• Maintains a high level of professionalism and integrity while observing the highly confidential nature of the position.
• Upholds a work environment that promotes teamwork, partnership, recognition, mutual respect, collaboration, while role modeling the company values, behaviors, and culture of One.Team.Chumash.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, emphasis in Accounting or equivalent degree required.
• Five years’ experience in general ledger accounting.
• Experience in a senior level position within the Accounting field preferred.
• Experience in financial reporting required.
• Advanced knowledge of general business and accounting systems and methods.
• Knowledge of applicable law, regulations, rules, procedures, and administration is required.
• NetSuite experience preferred but not necessary.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word and Outlook), and internet research skills with advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Must apply for, receive, and maintain a Gaming License from the Tribal Gaming Agency.
• Native American hiring preference applies.

Skills, Abilities, and Competencies:

• Organizational Awareness Having and using knowledge of systems, situations, procedures, and culture inside the organization to identify potential problems and opportunities; perceiving the impact and the implications of decisions on other components of the organization.
• Quality Orientation Setting high standards regarding his/her work and working environment and acting accordingly; developing quality standards, continuously evaluating performance, products, and procedures; actively seeking ways to improve quality.
• Attention to Detail Taking responsibility for a thorough and detailed method of working.
• Data Gathering and Analytics Collecting, consolidating, and using relevant information; recognizing important information; tracing possible causes of problems, and searching for practical data/solutions.
• Planning and Organizing Setting priorities and defining actions, time, and resources needed to achieve predefined goals.
• Accountability Accepting responsibility that results in anticipation/prevention of problem areas from actions, and problem solving inside and outside the department/organization.
• Results Orientation Being persistent and showing perseverance on achieving concrete and tangible results out of personal responsibility; getting optimum results from situations and being ready to take action and show tenacity in case of obstacles or resistance.
• Integrity Upholding generally accepted social and ethical standards in job-related activities and behaviors.
• Written Communication Expressing ideas and opinions clearly in properly structured, well organized, and grammatically correct reports or documents; utilizing language and terminology that is understandable for the reader.
• Oral Communication Shaping and expressing ideas and information in an effective manner.

Physical Requirements of the Position:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by the Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Clear vision (close, distant, peripheral, and depth perception) is needed for navigating office and casino environments; reading and reviewing reports and policies; operating data processing equipment; and other essential job functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is regularly required to talk and hear.
• The Team Member is frequently required to sit and use hands to manipulate, handle, or feel.
• The Team Member is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.
• The Team Member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.

Working Conditions:

• While performing the duties of this job, the Team Member is occasionally exposed to tobacco smoke, moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
• The Team Member is usually subject to inside environmental conditions, which provide protection from weather conditions, but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The Team Member is occasionally subject to outside environmental conditions and to wet and/or humid conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Other Information:

About Us:

Chumash Enterprises is one of the premier employers in Santa Barbara County. We excel in providing a “Welcome to Freedom” atmosphere to our Chumash Casino Resort guests, while also offering a high level of care and customer service at our various Chumash-owned properties. For our Team Members, we are a unique employer with a “Free to Be Me” mentality. That means our Team Members have the ability to bring their most unique and individual selves to the workplace. It means they have the freedom to find their own path to success. With more than 1,800 Team Members, we offer a stable, rewarding, and energetic work environment with competitive pay, benefits, exciting growth opportunities, tuition reimbursement and more!
As our organization grows, new and exciting opportunities continue to develop at all of our properties, including Chumash Casino Resort, Chumash Employee Resource Center, Chumash Gas Station, Santa Ynez Tribal Health Clinic, Tribal Operations, Hotel Corque and The Hadsten.