Office Assistant - Harvest Sherwood Food Distributors : Job Details

We encourage you to bring your talent and effort to Harvest Sherwood and contribute to our shared success, while having fun, serving our customers, and strengthening the local communities in which we operate. As the largest independent wholesale food distributor in the U.S., with 15 distribution centers from coast-to-coast, Harvest Sherwood is an essential business. We buy, sell and deliver fresh, high quality protein products and other foods to over 6,000 retail and foodservice customers. Job Purpose The Office Assistant will perform a variety of general administrative and clerical tasks. The incumbent will be required to both take direction and work intuitively to support the completion of the department's goals and objectives in an efficient and professional manner. Key Responsibilities The Office Assistant will be assigned duties based on organizational needs and priorities.

• Coordinate and complete financial and customer focused projects independently or in cooperation with other groups as directed by the Supervisor

• Responsible for general accounting/back office duties such as verifying daily sales, reconcile deposits to accounts, and make daily commercial deposits

• Support customer groups by resolving customer issues and anticipating customer needs.
• Work cooperatively with all team members to support the achievement of work plan activities designed to achieve identified goals and objectives.
• Perform data-entry, documentation printing and filling duties
• Perform other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications and Experience To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function assigned satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• High school diploma or (GED) required.
• Must have 3+ years of similar administrative or office assistant experience required; accounting or sales support capacity preferred
• Bilingual (Spanish) is required.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to multi-task
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Must be computer literate with fast typing and data entry skills.
• Must be highly skilled in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, and Excel) .

Harvest-Sherwood is committed to offering competitive benefits to our employees and their dependents, including paid vacation, health insurances, and a 401K plan!*We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.#IND123