Entry-Level Accountant
Entry-Level Accountant
Launch Your Accounting Career with Real Impact!
Control Associates is growing, and we're looking for a bright, motivated accounting graduate to join our dynamic team! This is not your typical entry-level role - you'll be making an immediate impact by helping us transform our customer invoicing processes through automation.
What You'll Do:
As our new Entry-Level Accountant, you'll join our existing team supporting the Customer Invoicing Process. We're on an exciting journey to completely automate our AR/AP processes over the next 6+ months, and you'll be right in the middle of this transformation!
You'll start by working directly with our internal business units (beginning with our Warehouse teams) to understand current manual processes that use Excel and our ERP system (IFS). Then you'll help us identify improvement opportunities and implement automation solutions.
This role offers incredible growth potential - you'll start with Customer Invoicing and then expand to handle multiple accounting projects. It's the perfect foundation to build your career using strong accounting fundamentals while developing valuable process improvement skills.
What You'll Need to Succeed:
• Accounting degree (recent graduates welcome!)
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables and VLOOKUP functions
• Strong attention to detail and organizational abilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Natural curiosity and willingness to ask questions
• Ability to take initiative and apply new concepts quickly
• Team-oriented mindset with the ability to work collaboratively
• Adaptability to pivot between different tasks and priorities
What You'll Be Responsible For:
• Working with internal teams and some customers to track and report invoices
• Performing account reconciliations
• Creating reports from multiple datasets using Excel
• Developing ad-hoc reports for senior management
• Supporting compliance, internal control, and audit requirements
• Joining our Change Management Team to:
- Identify process improvements
- Assist with data cleansing and testing
- Help with process mapping
- Validate customer information accuracy
Why You'll Love Working Here:
• Hands-on training and development from day one
• Supportive managers who connect your daily work to broader business impacts
• Clear path for growth and skill expansion
• Collaborative culture focused on customers, innovation, integrity, and passion
• Competitive starting base salary $50,000-$60,000 with bonus potential
• Opportunity to make meaningful contributions immediately
Are You Ready?
If you're a detail-oriented, tech-savvy, and eager to learn individually, we want to hear from you! This position offers the perfect blend of accounting fundamentals and business process improvement that will set your career on an exciting trajectory.
At Control Associates, we value curiosity, initiative, and collaboration. If you're ready to apply your accounting knowledge in a dynamic environment where you'll be challenged and supported, apply today!
Please note that work visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
This is direct placement position; third party contracts are not available.
This is not a remote opportunity, if not local to Allendale, NJ, relocation to NYC tristate area will be required
Control Associates is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace.
Excellent benefits, including multiple medical plan choices, vision, and dental insurance with coverage for both employees and dependent family members. Medical and dependent care flexible spending benefits, health savings accounts, commuter tax benefit, company paid long-term disability and life/ADD insurance plans with a buy up option.
Paid time off including vacation days, holidays, and sick days
Our retirement plans include a 401(k) plan (with company match) and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), is a company-funded benefit that provides additional retirement compensation to qualifying employees.
Certification/Training, we provide both in-house and Client/System specific technical training
Control Associates Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, creed, race religion, color, national origin, citizenship, disability, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, familial status, gender, ancestry, or liability for services in the U.S. Armed Forces, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.
About our Company
Established in 1933, Control Associates along with its global process automation business partner, Emerson, specializes in supporting the process control equipment and service needs of the following industries: Life Sciences, Natural Gas Distribution & Transmission, HVAC, Power, Chemical, and Downstream Hydrocarbons.
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