The job sounds straightforward enough. They are a tiny
chain of three retail outlets, specializing in natural and locally sourced
products, for health minded individuals. Though Bellwether Snacks owns them,
these stores have relatively complete autonomy, so long as they are profitable.
Healthy Hippie Market doesn’t really have its own accounting department, and
nobody inside the stores in this role whatsoever, but Edgar Lodge will be the
closest thing to it.
It’s a position that hasn’t existed before. Edgar’s
primary focus will involve going through every invoice, ensuring each item is charged
to the correct department. Then to assign appropriate retails on the products,
based upon that department’s margin. He must also place these products in the
correct departments for tax and EBT eligibility reasons, based upon some truly
mind-numbing finer points of this fair state’s tax code, within their computer
system. Still, it all sounds somewhat basic, just a lot of concentration upon
tiny details and a baseline of standard math/accounting type knowledge.
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