ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATE

At Arper, we create chairs, tables, and furnishings for community, work, and home. We are a fast-growing company founded in 1989—a family business guided by an integrative, human-centered approach. We have grown from a furniture manufacturing business to an international design presence, dramatically increasing our turnover and adding hundreds of new employees to the Arper family. We’re motivated by relationships: between products and spaces, spaces and people, people and their networks. We frame everything—our soft, essential design sensibility, our direct and personalized service, our organizational and corporate policies, our global brand identity—in terms of human values. Every part of the product development process—from design to production to long-term impact—is carefully considered, bringing function, aesthetic, detail together in elegant resolution. THE PROJECT OF LIVING — For Arper, the project of living is a dialogue that embraces change, whether it applies to the world as a whole or to people as they evolve, at all stages of their lives. Underlying everything we do is a sensitivity towards the communities, relationships, environments, and individuals for whom we design. We believe that spaces shape ideas. We aspire to a beautiful world. We create furnishings that support harmonious, comfortable living in its many forms, that inspire and grow with us over time. We create spaces and solutions to move forward with intelligence and ease. Together, with our clients and partners, we design the world we want to live in, with openness and humanity. OUR VISION — A beautiful, vital world. OUR MISSION — To create spaces and solutions that shape the project of living. OUR VALUES — Responsibility, care, openness, imagination, courage. The part-time Accounting Associate will be responsible for processing invoices and the daily AP registrations in our ERP system in addition to any other tasks as assigned by the Accounting Manager to provide accounting and financials support services for Arper USA, Inc. The role will be based in High Point, North Carolina out of our manufacturing site with expectation of reporting onsite for work 3-4 days and/or 20-35 hours weekly. RESPONSIBILITY · Receiving and enter supplier invoices in the system, making sure that reporting period and all relevant information are entered correctly (both 3-way-match and manual entries) · Preparing weekly payment of open invoices and mail them to necessary locations · Resolving all issues about AP (quote/invoice discrepancy, missing invoices, lost payments etc.) · Printing bar codes and matching the invoices · Scanning invoices to the server · Completing cost analysis · Filing documents · Any other work task specified by the Accounting Manager QUALIFICATIONS · Previous experience in a similar position · Major in accounting or similar preferred · Attention to detail, organization and multitasking a must · Excellent computer knowledge, especially Outlook, Word and Excel · Previous experience with an ERP system such as JD Edwards, SAP, AS400 etc. YOUR PERSONALITY · Be an enterprise-level problem solver having a can-do, solution-oriented mindset; focus on how to drive to the best possible outcome. · Be relentless, resourceful, and entrepreneurial; with a commitment to continuous improvement. · Drive impact through inquiry; ask probing questions and push others to be and do their best. · Be nimble and flexible; adapt quickly to changing circumstances or new insights. · Be comfortable with risk; know that the biggest risk often comes from inaction rather than from getting it wrong. · Operate in a prioritized fashion; know what you are trying to get done and focus your resources. · Be in the details and hands on; think strategically but drive to action. Arper USA, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.