Staff Accountant

About Sun Country Airlines

We're not your average airline. We're agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.

With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline, and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlines provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a great and growing company, as a Staff Accountant you'll enjoy these benefits and more:

• Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
• PPO and high-deductible health plans
• Health savings accounts (HSA and FSA)
• Dependent Care
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Staff Accountant Overview:

Sun Country Airlines is seeking a General Staff Accountant is to prepare accurate and timely journal entries as well as account and bank reconciliations for the month-end close process. The General Staff Accountant is also responsible for preparing sales, use, property, and excise tax returns along with maintaining the necessary supporting documentation for amounts owed to government authorities.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Participate in the month, quarter and year end close process by preparing assigned journal entries, account reconciliations and other close functions
• Prepare and file bi-weekly federal excise taxes along with other periodic filings for airline specific tax returns
• Monitor and reconcile bank activity for assigned department/business area
• Manage and perform reconciliations within the Company's general ledger system and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner
• Perform all monthly bank reconciliations and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner
• Serve as a key business partner to assigned departments/business areas and record corresponding journal entries
• Analyze and record entries for aviation and other types of insurance
• Account for all insurance premiums and properly record monthly expense allocations
• Compile documentation for internal and external auditors, as needed
• Engage in process enhancement activities, as needed
• Conduct all tasks in a safe and efficient manner complying with all local, state and federal safety and health regulatory requirements, programmatic standards, and with any internal policies and procedures identified by Sun Country Airlines
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent years of relevant work experience
• 2+ years of relevant corporate accounting experience
• Experience using general ledger accounting systems, preparing bank reconciliations, and journal entries
• General understanding of US GAAP accounting principles
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel
• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to meet deadlines with a high level of accuracy and detail
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with various levels of employees across multiple departments, including those outside of Accounting and Finance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work overtime as required, primarily during the accounting close process and the annual audit

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Great Plains and/or Blackline account reconciliation software
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Familiarity with sales tax and federal excise tax filings
• Travel or aviation-related experience

Compensation:

Pay range is $60,000 - $75,000 USD annually. This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.

Classification:

Full-Time, Non-Exempt

Work Location:

Minneapolis, MN (hybrid)

Supervisory Responsibility:

None

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands or fingers, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties:

The above statements are intended to provide a summary of key responsibilities and the anticipated work environment of an accountant. They are not intended to be an all-inclusive listing of job duties. Position expectations may change as the needs, or the requirements of the organization evolve.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Sun Country Airlines respects and values every employee's contribution to our business. We believe that an important part of our strength comes from our people and their array of perspectives.

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