• Associate Accounting Analyst

    Walgreens (Deerfield, IL)


    Job Description:

    Job Summary

    Responsible for assisting in the maintenance of accounts and performing other accounting related activities. Helps participate in preparing necessary information for financial and/or management reporting. Assists in analyzing financial and management reports to identifying trends and variances. May perform basic analysis and basic level accounting tasks.

    Job Responsibilities

    + Monitors timeliness of external sources providing required documents, information and payment. Notifies management of late items. Assists with monitoring accounts.

    + Research and correction of issues and exceptions as assigned. Helps analyze basic accounts, records, and reports. Investigates and resolves any accounting issues within area of responsibility.

    + Performs basic reconciliations for area supported and analyzes resulting variances. May propose and prepare adjusting entries as necessary resulting from reconciliations.

    + Creates reports as assigned and per procedures. May prepare basic reports in support of internal and external audits.

    + Audits compliance with contracts, negotiated terms, and applicable regulations.

    + May assist in exploring modification and implementation in changes in systems and procedures.

    About Walgreens

    Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations, and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni-channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

     

    **Job ID:** 1654466BR

    **Title:** Associate Accounting Analyst

    **Company Indicator:** Walgreens

    Employment Type:

    **Job Function:** Finance/Accounting

    **Full Store Address:** 108 WILMOT RD,DEERFIELD,IL 60015

    **Full District Office Address:** 108 WILMOT RD,DEERFIELD,IL,60015-05145-01108-2

    External Basic Qualifications:

    + Bachelor’s Degree OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 3 years of experience in an analytical role in accounting, finance, business management or auditing.

    + Knowledge of applicable regulations.

    + Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Excel (for example: using SUM function, setting borders, setting column width, inserting charts, using text wrap, sorting, setting headers and footers and/or print scaling).

    + Willing to travel up to 10 % of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

    Preferred Qualifications:

    + Master’s Degree in Accountancy or MBA

    + Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance or Business.

    + CPA designation.

    + Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in vendor management, lease administration, real estate, or a related field.

    + Strong understanding of real estate ownership structures, payee setup processes, and vendor compliance requirements.

    + Knowledge of legal documentation related to real estate transfers (e.g. deeds, assignments, purchase/sales agreements, and ownership affidavits).

    + Proven ability to review, interpret, and validate legal and financial documentation for accuracy and completeness.

    + Experience with project management (for example: planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives).

    + Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font).

    + Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Access (for example: designing and creating simple queries, modifying data types, adding dates, working with required fields and/or creating labels).

    + Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns).

    + Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

    + Experience with analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.

     

    We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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