Staff Accountant

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About Us

The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST) is a personal care company dedicated to creating clean- and sustainably-designed products spanning categories across diapers, wipes, baby personal care, beauty, apparel, household care and wellness. Launched in 2012, the Honest Company is on a mission to challenge ingredients, ideals, and industries through the power of the Honest brand, the Honest team, and the Honest Standard. Honest products are available via Honest.com, leading online retailers and approximately 50,000 retail locations across the United States and Canada. For more information about the Honest Standard and the Company, please visit www.honest.com.

Our Mission

We’re on a mission to empower people to live happy, healthy lives. We’re a wellness brand with values rooted in consciousness, community, transparency, and design. Every day and in every way, we hold ourselves to an Honest standard. We believe that it is our responsibility to do our part to help create a healthy and sustainable future for all.

The Role

The Honest Company is excited to announce a search for a Staff Accountant! In this role, you’ll primarily focus on inventory accounting while also gaining exposure to various areas of accounting. You’ll be responsible for processing accounting transactions, preparation of reconciliations, providing ad hoc analysis, maintaining the integrity of the general ledger, and providing general accounting support to the Inventory Accounting Manager. We’re looking for a highly organized, accountable (pun intended) team player who operates with efficiency, urgency, and discipline.

What you’ll do:

• Prepare journal entries related to inventory and cost of revenue, including shipping accruals, tariffs, rebate accruals, and packaging expense to support the month-end close process
• Assist with preparation of overhead allocations and product allocations
• Support annual physical inventory count and reconciliation to general ledger (annual travel required)
• Perform various inventory-related accounting tasks, such as reconciling inventory between systems and monitoring inventory cost/valuation
• Support quarterly reviews and year-end audit by preparing schedules that support COGS and inventory-related trends and balances
• Prepare monthly variance analysis for inventory and cost of revenue accounts, including research of drivers of variances
• Assist with other general accounting tasks and cross-functional projects to broaden your expertise and support team goals.
• Prepare/assist with any other ad hoc analysis or analytics as needed

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or finance
• 1 to 3 years of experience in an accounting role including inventory accounting
• Solid understanding of US GAAP, general accounting processes, internal controls, and financial analysis tools
• Proficient in Excel, including advanced formulas and pivot tables
• Strong team player who thrives in a in a fast-paced, changing environment
• If this role excites you but you don’t meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply—we value a willingness to learn!

Bonus points for:

• Public company experience
• CPA or on path to CPA
• Experience with top tier ERP and related reporting applications

Compensation

The pay range for this role is $65,000 - $80,000. Actual compensation is based on many factors including but not limited to depth of experience, skill level, ability, knowledge, education, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. 

The total rewards package for this position may also include base, annual incentive plan, benefits, retirement plan, equity, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Benefits & Perks

We offer a competitive benefits package including comprehensive health and wellness coverage, 401k with company match, wellness incentives including a monthly fitness reimbursement and onsite fitness classes, options for education reimbursement, and a discount on all products. We value work-life balance and offer a generous and flexible vacation policy. Thinking about adding little ones to your family? Honest offers generous maternity and paternity leave. We love the furry kids too and offer pet insurance so your companions are well taken care of.

California Privacy Rights Notice for Californian Job Applicants and Prospective Talent

Effective Date: January 1, 2020

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), The Honest Company, Inc. (“Honest” or “us” or “we”) is required to inform California residents who are our job applicants or prospective talent (together “job applicants” or “you”) about the categories of personal information we may collect about you and the purposes for which we use this information.  Click here if you are a California resident to read disclosures required by the CCPA. Note this notice applies only to personal information that is subject to the CCPA. 

Categories of Personal Information We Collect. We may collect the following categories of personal information about our job applicants, who are California residents:

• Name
• Signature
• Social Security Number
• Email and mailing address
• Telephone number
• Education
• Employment history

How We Use Job Applicants’ Personal Data.  We use and disclose the personal information we collect for our business purposes.  These business purposes include, without limitation:

• Processing evaluating your application to determine your qualifications for the role to which you’ve applied, and communicating with you about your application, including to check references or your background, and communicate with you about other jobs that may interest you.
• Other business purposes as identified in the CCPA, which include:
• Auditing related to our interactions with you; 
• Legal compliance
• Detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity;
• Debugging;
• Performing services for us, such as analytics;
• Internal research for technological improvement; and
• Internal operations.

Other Interactions with The Honest Company.  More information about our privacy practices can be found in our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated herein by reference.

Contact Us.  For questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].