AppleOne is pleased to partner with a growing company in San Clemente who needs someone with accounting and customer service experience.

This role is ideal for a detail-oriented accounting professional who enjoys wearing many hats, supporting leadership, solving problems, and helping keep daily business operations running smoothly.

This is a great opportunity to join an established organization with more than 20 years in business that is experiencing growth following a recent acquisition. The work environment is fast-paced, collaborative, and team-oriented, with supportive leadership and the opportunity to become a trusted long-term contributor. The ideal candidate will be hands-on, dependable, analytical, and comfortable balancing accounting, customer service, documentation, billing, logistics support, and administrative responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

- Support day-to-day accounting functions, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, billing, invoicing, and general ledger activity.
- Perform account reconciliations, assist with financial reporting, and provide accurate information to management and the CFO/Controller.
- Prepare, review, and maintain detailed paperwork, compliance documentation, purchase orders, customs forms, and international freight-related documents.
- Assist with customer service needs, including possible phone communication with customers and coordination with internal teams.
- Support operational tasks such as logistics coordination, inventory tracking, spreadsheet maintenance, and cross-functional follow-up.
- Identify issues, stay organized, follow through on critical tasks, and help improve workflow accuracy and efficiency.

Compensation and Benefits

- $32.00 to $34.00 per hour.
- Temp-to-hire opportunity.
- Location: San Clemente, CA.

Required Qualifications and Skills

- Support AP, AR, billing, invoicing, reconciliations, and general ledger accounting.
- Assist the CFO/Controller with reporting, documentation, operational follow-up, and administrative support.
- Maintain accurate paperwork, spreadsheets, purchase orders, compliance documents, and customer or freight-related records.
- Coordinate with internal teams, customers, and management to support accounting, service, logistics, and business operations.

- 3 to 5 years of relevant accounting, bookkeeping, accounts payable, accounts receivable, or accounting support experience.
- Hands-on experience with accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger accounting, account reconciliations, and reporting.
- Strong Excel and general computer skills, including the ability to maintain organized spreadsheets and accurate records.
- Customer service experience with the ability to communicate professionally by phone and email.
- Excellent attention to detail, follow-through, organization, and problem-solving ability.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, handle paperwork-heavy processes, and work with minimal supervision.
- Comfortable supporting leadership and taking ownership of diverse responsibilities in a growing business environment.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in a small to mid-sized privately held company.
- Manufacturing or distribution industry experience.
- Experience working with management, a Controller, or CFO.
- Experience with M3 software.
- Experience with customs documentation, international freight, China-related documentation, logistics, or compliance paperwork.
- Experience creating purchase orders, tracking inventory, or supporting billing and invoicing processes.

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For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, AppleOne is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.

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