Vessel Accounts Officer

The Atlas Corp. and Seaspan teams are goal-driven and share a high-performance culture, focusing on building services offerings to become a leading asset manager. Seaspan provides many of the world's major shipping lines with alternatives to vessel ownership by offering long-term leases on large, modern containerships and pure car, truck carriers (PCTCs) combined with industry leading ship management serves. Seaspan's fleet has evolved over time to meet the varying needs of our customer base. We own vessels in a wide range of sizes, from 2,500 TEU to 24,000 TEU vessels. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Corp, Seaspan delivers on the company's core strategy as a leading asset management and core infrastructure company.

Position Description:

The Vessel Accounts Officer is responsible for carrying out the daily and month end activities related to the accounting of the costs associated with operating of the vessel. This includes, but is not limited to, crew wages and expenses, logistics, and spares/repairs.

Job Responsibilities:

• Processes payroll of the ships on a daily basis and verifies the final settlement account of the crew sign- off
• Verifies manning agent expense statements
• Review and process the wage payment (allotment) on a monthly basis
• Generate weekly or monthly payment register from NetSuite for the vendors and advise AP for wire
• Processes the cash to the Master and coordinates with the global agents for the supply of cash to the ship
• Verifies the Seafarers Employment Agreement (SEA) before issuing to crew
• Processes transactions into the Company’s vessel management system (NS5), the Company’s crew payroll system (ShipMate) and the Company’s accounting system (NetSuite) in accordance with accounting policies and procedures
• Prepares, processes and cross-reviews adjusting journal entries
• Works with vendors, Operations, Crewing and Financial Services to resolve vendor and payroll queries
• Prepares monthly accounts and Vendor reconciliation and working papers
• Month end accounts review and make accrual or prepaid in accordance with accounting policies and procedures
• Consults with the Accounting Supervisor, responds to and addresses payroll queries from the vessels
• Performs other duties as assigned from time to time

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business/commerce 
• Minimum four years of accounting experience 
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
• Data processing and data analysis skills

Additional Desired Qualifications: 

• Ability to work in a team environment, both financial and operational 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and good writing style 
• Attention to detail 

Job Demands and/or Physical Requirements:

• Flexibility to meet deadlines or accommodate time zone differences