The Children’s Place Looking for SALES AUDIT ANALYST at Secaucus, New Jersey Full Time

Job Summary:

The Sales Audit Analyst will perform tender verification, research and resolution across multiple systems. This position will also prepare daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliations and journal entries as required and analyze data integrity throughout systems. In addition, this position will assist in audits, projects, and operational support.

Responsibilities:

Key Accountabilities:

• Analyze and review daily sales and tender transactions, ensure supporting documentation is appropriate, and perform account reconciliations.
• Create reports providing variance analyses or trends that may reflect system or store level issues.
• Download data files from various websites and systems into the central sales audit and/or G/L system.
• Assist with system enhancements and implementations.
• Ensure accounting entries are prepared and posted correctly and that the resulting accounting treatment and G/L balances are appropriate according to GAAP and company revenue recognition policies.
• Oversee write-off process by gathering and analyzing data, proposing entries and submitting to supervisor for approval and then ensuring they are posted correctly.
• Complete account reconciliations
• Assist with forecasting based on past and current data analysis, industry trends, and company business plans.
• Partner and communicate with Loss Prevention and Operations on store related issues and opportunities.
• Assist with journal entries, accruals, and weekly/monthly reporting.
• Report any suspicious activity or other potential ethics violations to senior management.
• Run miscellaneous complex reports, perform ad hoc calculations, financial models, data queries and other special projects as requested
• Work on additional tasks and projects as directed.
• Propose and drive continuous process improvements.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, with preference in Accounting, Business or related experience.

• 3+ years of finance, banking or data analysis related work – prior retail experience is a plus
• Understanding of or experience with general accounting and related processes

Business Knowledge and Critical Skills:

• Excellent communication skills with ability to proactively partner with others.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem solving skills with critical attention to detail and deadlines.
• Exceptional initiative, desire to grow professionally and ability to work well within cross-functional teams.
• Motivated professional who is able to work in an environment with multiple priorities and firm deadlines.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office with expertise in Excel including lookups, pivots, etc.
• Experience with reconciliations and accounting systems preferred.