Staff Accountant - Fortive Corporation
Plainville, CT
About the Job
Purpose of Position
The Staff Accountant for Gems Setra has primary responsibility to maintain financial reporting, records, and general ledger accounts. Key player in month end and quarter end financial closes involving journal entries, account reconciliations, and Sarbanes-Oxley testing. A successful staff accountant will have a strong focus on accuracy/timeliness, highly developed drive for continuous improvement, and be a collaborative teammate.
Essential Functions
+ Preparing journal entries, analyses, account reconciliations, and critical part of the monthly closing process.
+ Collaborating with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable team for invoicing, cash application, AR reconciliations, and cash collections support.
+ Maintaining documentation for accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed assets.
+ Performing annual Sarbanes-Oxley testing requirements
+ Assist with accounting projects and related special projects as required.
Education & Experience Required
+ Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
+ Solid understanding of US GAAP
+ Excellent interpersonal skills - collaborative with internal/external customers, team members and cross-functional collaborators
+ Effective communications skills – including written, verbal and listening skills
+ Strong analytical skills to diagnose and troubleshoot sophisticated datasets
+ Organized, with a strong process and detail focus to deliver high quality and timely results
+ High energy, bias for action with continuous improvement approach; recognizes and resolves issues.
+ Team-player with the ability and willingness to tackle challenges
+ Excellent digital literacy, particularly MS Excel and PowerPoint
+ ERP system experience (JDE and OneStream ideal)
+ A minimum of 2 years relevant work experience preferred.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at careers.fortive.com (https://stgfortive.taleo.net/enterprise/careers.fortive.com) .
Gems Setra is a leading global supplier of sensing and monitoring technologies, operating within the Precision Technologies platform of Fortive Corporation. Through our comprehensive portfolio of premium sensing products, we deliver solutions to customer problems and challenges.
As two Fortive businesses merged in 2022, Gems Setra’s vision is to connect our customers to their environment to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable world. Gems Sensors product offerings include a range of products that encompass liquid level, flow, and pressure sensors, miniature solenoid valves, proximity switches, and integrated fluid management solutions. The Setra Systems product line offers an extensive selection of high-quality sensing instruments for humidity, current, vacuum, energy, and pressure measurements.
At the heart of our combined company's mission lies a shared dedication between Gems Sensors and Setra Systems to deliver high-quality sensing solutions, backed by reliable customer support on a global scale. As a part of Fortive, we embrace a culture of innovation, driving progress and empowering advancements in the industries and customers we serve.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should ask to speak with a Human Resources representative to request an accommodation.
The Staff Accountant for Gems Setra has primary responsibility to maintain financial reporting, records, and general ledger accounts. Key player in month end and quarter end financial closes involving journal entries, account reconciliations, and Sarbanes-Oxley testing. A successful staff accountant will have a strong focus on accuracy/timeliness, highly developed drive for continuous improvement, and be a collaborative teammate.
Essential Functions
+ Preparing journal entries, analyses, account reconciliations, and critical part of the monthly closing process.
+ Collaborating with Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable team for invoicing, cash application, AR reconciliations, and cash collections support.
+ Maintaining documentation for accounts payable, accounts receivable, and fixed assets.
+ Performing annual Sarbanes-Oxley testing requirements
+ Assist with accounting projects and related special projects as required.
Education & Experience Required
+ Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting.
+ Solid understanding of US GAAP
+ Excellent interpersonal skills - collaborative with internal/external customers, team members and cross-functional collaborators
+ Effective communications skills – including written, verbal and listening skills
+ Strong analytical skills to diagnose and troubleshoot sophisticated datasets
+ Organized, with a strong process and detail focus to deliver high quality and timely results
+ High energy, bias for action with continuous improvement approach; recognizes and resolves issues.
+ Team-player with the ability and willingness to tackle challenges
+ Excellent digital literacy, particularly MS Excel and PowerPoint
+ ERP system experience (JDE and OneStream ideal)
+ A minimum of 2 years relevant work experience preferred.
Fortive Corporation Overview
Fortive’s essential technology makes the world stronger, safer, and smarter. We accelerate transformation across a broad range of applications including environmental, health and safety compliance, industrial condition monitoring, next-generation product design, and healthcare safety solutions.
We are a global industrial technology innovator with a startup spirit. Our forward-looking companies lead the way in software-powered workflow solutions, data-driven intelligence, AI-powered automation, and other disruptive technologies. We’re a force for progress, working alongside our customers and partners to solve challenges on a global scale, from workplace safety in the most demanding conditions to groundbreaking sustainability solutions.
We are a diverse team 18,000 strong, united by a dynamic, inclusive culture and energized by limitless learning and growth. We use the proven Fortive Business System (FBS) to accelerate our positive impact.
At Fortive, we believe in you. We believe in your potential—your ability to learn, grow, and make a difference.
At Fortive, we believe in us. We believe in the power of people working together to solve problems no one could solve alone.
At Fortive, we believe in growth. We’re honest about what’s working and what isn’t, and we never stop improving and innovating.
Fortive: For you, for us, for growth.
Ready to move your career forward? Find out more at careers.fortive.com (https://stgfortive.taleo.net/enterprise/careers.fortive.com) .
Gems Setra is a leading global supplier of sensing and monitoring technologies, operating within the Precision Technologies platform of Fortive Corporation. Through our comprehensive portfolio of premium sensing products, we deliver solutions to customer problems and challenges.
As two Fortive businesses merged in 2022, Gems Setra’s vision is to connect our customers to their environment to create a safer, healthier, more sustainable world. Gems Sensors product offerings include a range of products that encompass liquid level, flow, and pressure sensors, miniature solenoid valves, proximity switches, and integrated fluid management solutions. The Setra Systems product line offers an extensive selection of high-quality sensing instruments for humidity, current, vacuum, energy, and pressure measurements.
At the heart of our combined company's mission lies a shared dedication between Gems Sensors and Setra Systems to deliver high-quality sensing solutions, backed by reliable customer support on a global scale. As a part of Fortive, we embrace a culture of innovation, driving progress and empowering advancements in the industries and customers we serve.
We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer
Fortive Corporation and all Fortive Companies are proud to be equal opportunity employers. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics protected by law. Fortive and all Fortive Companies are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. Individuals who need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process should ask to speak with a Human Resources representative to request an accommodation.
Source : Fortive Corporation