Senior Accountant at Par Pacific in SPOKANE VALLEY, Washington

Job Description:

Senior Staff Accountant

Take Your Accounting Career to the Next Level at a Rapidly Growing & Evolving Company Ripe with Challenges & Opportunities

This is your opportunity to make your mark and grow your career as you step into a key accounting role on the General Ledger accounting team. You will assist with a variety of diverse and interesting responsibilities in the month-end close process. Consider some of the advantages of joining our team. You will:

- Serve as a key corporate senior accountant, leveraging your talents to make an impact and grow.

- Expand your skills and knowledge working with the General Ledger team -- you'll work with more than a dozen cost centers and multiple stakeholders!

- Enjoy further professional development as you cross-train with other members of the team.

- Enjoy visibility at the top levels of our organization.

The Requirements

To be a strong fit for this opportunity you should have:

- At least five years of relevant progressive accounting experience in the month-end close process.

- Strong project management skills

- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including use of pivot tables, VLOOKUP and advanced formulas

- Clear understanding of GAAP financial statements

- A proactive attitude

- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels in the organization in verbal and written form

- Ability to develop relationships with business partners to best support the business

- The ability to work the necessary hours to accomplish assigned tasks, especially during month- and quarter-end close process

Preferred but not required experience:

- SAP experience

- PDI experience

- Oil & Gas or Retail industry experience.

In addition to your skills and experience, success will require the following core competencies and characteristics:

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

- Highly detail oriented and organized in your workflow

- Ability to work well independently and in a team environment

- Ability to adjust work schedule to accommodate expected and unexpected changes (i.e. month- and year-end, acquisitions, etc.)

The Role

As the Senior Accountant, you will assist the Accounting Manager, with the day-to-day, monthly and year-end accounting for NW Retail Accounting.

Create capital projects and fixed assets for the NW Retail business.

When you are not working on your primary day-to-day activities, you can expect to work on a variety of ad-hoc projects and key initiatives in conjunction with your Manager and the Lead.

More specifically, your key responsibilities will be to:

- Prepare and post PDI & SAP journal entries throughout the month for several business processes.

Ensure that journal entries are properly coded and evidenced by supporting documentation.

- Prepare daily, weekly and monthly balance sheet account reconciliations for business processes outlined. Ensure transactions that comprise balances are clearly identified and supported; monthly activity is identified and is appropriate given the nature of the account.

- Collaborate with Accounting Manager and Staff to provide high-level explanations on financial statement variances for the current month, and current quarter, where applicable.

- Maintain compliance with SOX and provide assistance with internal and external audit requests.

- Prepare various ad hoc reports as requested in support of NW Retail operations.

- Lead and assist with various ongoing projects as necessary.

- Provide schedules to the external auditors as requested.

Why Par Pacific?

Employee value proposition

Par Pacific is a growing energy company that provides more opportunity and career growth potential because of our ambition, entrepreneurial mindset, our premier market position, and our integrated business systems.

Working at Par Pacific is different. Because Par is a smaller energy company, employees have the opportunity to make a great impact on the business and to influence decisions. People truly have amazing careers at Par because they are exposed to all areas of the company and are connected to many industry experts.

Excellent compensation

In addition to a competitive salary and bonus opportunity, we offer a strong comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; a 401(k) with company match; a robust paid-time-off and vacation benefit, retirement savings plans; employee assistance programs; gym membership allowance, and more.

Unique culture

There is nothing ordinary about Par Pacific - an unorthodox niche player in the energy space that drives operations from production-to-delivery. And there's certainly nothing ordinary about Par Pacific people. If you're at Par, you're a driven, creative-thinking, hardworking, entrepreneur-minded professional that loves to win. If that describes you, you'll fit right in!

Location, location, location

Because Par Pacific is located in some of the most beautiful places throughout the country, our employees get to make these places their home and enrich their lives. The office where you'll work is located in the Memorial City area of Houston, near the Memorial City Mall. It's a vibrant area of the city with plenty of places for lunch or to wind down after work. We also have lots of free parking.

Opportunistic growth strategy

At Par Pacific, we look for operations with strong fundamentals and great employees who can move a business forward. Our management team has deep experience in the energy industry, as well as in leading mergers, acquisitions, and integrations of newly acquired companies.

Dynamic environment

Our ongoing strong growth and commitment to continuous improvement mean there is positive change under way. That change can create advancement opportunities for strong performers.

Pictured: Par Pacific's retail operations offer gasoline and other petroleum products in Hawaii under a new local brand, Hele, as well as the Union 76 and Tesoro brands. We operate 91 stores on five islands.

Keys to Success

To excel in this role you will be a quick learner who is curious, proactive and eager to roll up your sleeves. You will need to possess strong multi-tasking and project management skills to thrive in our fast-paced environment. Things can get busy for our team-especially during month- and quarter-end closing times-and we're looking for a candidate who is ready to get to work and grow your skill set. This is a great role if you don't want to do the same thing every day, but are keenly aware of deadlines and responsibilities.

You'll enjoy exposure throughout the organization and the opportunity to leverage your strong communication and relationship building skills to gather the information and financial data you need to get your job done.

- Build effective relationships with a variety of stakeholders

- Dedicate yourself to learning our company, goals and processes

- Continually look for improvements

- Stretch and grow your skills, always looking for ways to progress your career and talent

Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PARR), headquartered in Houston, Texas, owns and operates market-leading energy and infrastructure businesses. Par Pacific's strategy is to acquire and develop energy and infrastructure businesses in logistically complex markets. Par Pacific owns and operates one of the largest energy networks in Hawaii with 148,000-bpd of combined refining capacity, a logistics system supplying the major islands of the state and 91 retail locations. In the Pacific Northwest and the Rockies, Par Pacific owns and operates 60,000-bpd of combined refining capacity, related multimodal logistics systems and 33 retail locations. Par Pacific also owns 46% of Laramie Energy, LLC, a natural gas production company with operations and assets concentrated in Western Colorado. Follow this link to learn more about the value of human capital at Par Pacific Holdings, Inc.: https://www.parpacific.com/careers/find-your-fit/retail

Note: Par Pacific will not accept calls from third-party recruiters. All candidates are required to apply through this web posting.

Par Pacific is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.