Careers

 

Bicycles that fly, people who soar

 


Bike Friday is a Lean manufacturer of innovative travel, cargo, and electric bicycles. Since 1992, our custom bikes are hand built with pride from raw tubing to finished bike all in our factory in Eugene, Oregon.

We are an ambitious group of people working to do our part to make the world a better place to live.  Look over our website, talk to a Bike Friday owner, look into how awesome Eugene is, and if you want to be a part of Bike Friday, fill out our application.


Hear from our Team
“Being here is the exact impactful, fun, rewarding, inspiring hard work that I want to be doing. At Bike Friday, I work with a talented, eccentric team to produce more life-changing bicycles than I could as a lone framebuilder. I feel empowered in the business, and I get to live the car-free dream in beautiful Eugene Oregon! It feels like a Right Livelihood to me and I hope we can bring more good people into the fold!” –Willie Hatfield, Production Team Lead

Benefits:

 

  • An interesting place to work that encourages cross training and learning new things
  • Access to our extensive service, manufacturing, and fabrication shops for personal projects
  • Employee Purchase Perks – industry insider pricing, plus you get to build your own Bike Friday on the companies dime!
  • Indoor bike parking and showers
  • Lunch Rides in the Oregon countryside
  • Dog-friendly facility
  • Opportunities to learn frame building, entrepreneurship, etc
  • Flexible schedules and Remote Work options available for some positions
  • PTO including vacation, holidays, wellness, even your birthday!
  • Clear, fair, merit-based compensation
  • Active commuter incentives – get paid to ride to work
  • 401(k) Qualified Retirement Plan eligibility
  • Fire-Med Insurance included
  • We follow all state and federal pandemic guidelines and are an OSHA “low-risk” facility

 


Current Openings:

 

Full Cycle Bookkeeper/Accountant

Full Cycle Bookkeeper / Accountant

Position is 30-40 flexible hours per week

Do you like puzzles? Do you recognize patterns in numbers? Do you understand inventory processes in a manufacturing environment? Can you think outside the box? Pro-actively see/predict what’s coming, analyze, and problem solve for solutions?

An organic company in the truest sense of the word, Bike Friday has been committed from the beginning to making environmentally benign decisions in our choices of the products we make, the materials we use and the processes with which we manufacture.

Everything that Bike Friday represents today, the focus on community and relationships, the commitment to sustainability, the insistence on high performance and the unending push for bicycle improvements comes from a foundation that shouts “We Love Bicycles!”

Please review our website www.BikeFriday.com to learn about our company and the products we manufacture for world wide distribution.

If you have experience with the necessary skills, and feel you would enjoy being a valued addition to our growing team, please forward a cover letter telling us at why you think Bike Friday would be a good fit for you and your Resume of experience that is relative to our position.

This is a manufacturing environment, accounting has it’s own office, dress code is casual, closed toe shoes required for safety.

Required Skills:

    • Maintain and analyze financial information, prepare weekly, monthly and quarterly financial reports for senior management.
    • Maintain and implement, as needed, financial controls to ensure accurate financial reports.
    • Prepare biweekly payroll and maintain/develop reports to monitor hours and cost.
    • Proficient skill in Quickbooks Desktop, Google Docs and Excel

Responsibilities:

Accounting

    • Maintain accounting control procedures for accurate reporting.
    • Reconcile cash accounts and credit card transactions daily.
    • Prepare daily/weekly cash flow reports for management.
    • Reconcile daily invoices and daily payment receipts to Quickbooks,
    • Verify, reconcile packing slips with vendor invoices for payment issuance.
    • Prepare, reconcile and record month end inventory adjustment.
    • Post monthly memorized transactions for prepaids, depreciation etc.
    • Record monthly interest on loans.
    • Review balance sheet accounts and reconcile to schedules monthly.
    • Prepare month end profit and loss statements and balance sheet.
    • Prepare monthly income statement for comparisons to prior months.
    • Analyze revenues and expenses data to forecast future financial reports.
    • Calculate and prepare 1099’s for vendors and loan interest payments.
    • Review annual Liability Insurance policy to ensure adequate coverage and reasonable rates.
    • Review annual Workers Compensation insurance policy to ensure adequate coverage and reasonable rates.
    • Process Lane County Personal Property Tax Report.
    • Prepare additions and deletions of fixed assets for year.
    • Prepare year-end accrual adjustments.
    • Prepare year end reconciled Trial Balance for CPA Tax Return Preparation
    • Prepare all year end reports as required by outside agencies.
    • Other duties as assigned by senior management, such as backup for shipper during vacations, backup for inventory receiving/auditing.

Human Resources and Payroll

Ensure that federal and state employment regulations and laws are enforced. View database time sheets for accuracy. Input hours, bonuses and commissions into iSolved. Input payroll advances and adjustments to checks into iSolved.

    • Update any changes to employee deductions.
    • Produce employee purchases report from Database for biweekly period and report deductions to iSolved for payroll deduction.
    • Prepare payroll “review” worksheets and compare to data from iSolved.
    • Reconcile and track employee’s vacation and wellness schedules.
    • Record employee payroll deduction for purchases in the Database.
    • Prepare employee purchases journal entry and enter into Quickbooks.
    • Prepare monthly Worker’s Compensation Report and pay.
    • Review 401K payroll report and process payment to John Hancock.
    • Prepare manual or adjustments checks for employees.
    • Maintain employee personnel folders.
    • Maintain employee review, anniversary calendar and notify managers of upcoming review dates, etc.
    • Provide employee benefit information to new hires when they become eligible.
    • Prepare paperwork and monitor employee worker’s compensation claims.
    • Review and record employee garnishments and support orders.
    • Assist employees with any questions relating to benefits, taxes, etc.
    • Prepare annual census for the 401K pension plan.
    • Deal with issues on ex-employees, such as employment verification, unemployment, etc.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time (30 to 40 hours a week)

Pay: $23.00 – $26.00 per hour depending on experience and skills

Office Manager and Sales/Service Support

We are looking for that special someone who helps our team run smoothly. Bike Friday is a custom folding bike manufacturer who ships bikes all over the world. We are a Family Business that cares about our customers and employees. We need a high energy person who is focused on our customers and insures they are taken care of. You will be an Executive Assistant to the President while covering the responsibilities of the Office Manager that supports sales and marketing. You are exceptionally organized and maintain a good calendar. You can flow with the varied needs of the day by maintaining several tasks as well as other projects that come up. Might you be this special someone? We need you on our team. 25-40 hours a week (Mon – Fri) flexible for the right person. Please send a cover letter with a qualifications brief or resume to us at info@bikefriday.com.

Qualities:

  • Warm and friendly, up-beat, voice of the company – Can answer multi-line phone and communicate professionally through email.
  • Exceptionally organized and detail oriented person who can also organize others. Likes working with people and is also a focused goal oriented person
  • Runs a good calendar
  • Proactive go getter focused on getting the job done and taking care of customers
  • Reliable and can maintain deadlines
  • Can track multiple activities at once comfortably
  • Comfortable on the computer and basic desktop publishing (knowledge of InDesign a plus)
  • Likes to work on a team and help others be successful.
  • Strong communication skills spoken and written
  • Very focused on customer service, you help fill in the gaps between the team members.
  • Meaningful personal experience riding bicycles, also being familiar with cycling culture
  • Likes bikes and can change your own flat tire – not intimidated with basic tools

Tasks you would do:

  • Answering customer emails and filtering main company email to correct department
  • Maintain company calendar’s
  • Marketing and Sales support (finding information, simple edits to documents, expediting orders, talking to dealers and customers if Sales Rep is not available…).
  • Purchasing office and some shop supplies
  • Calling customers for information at times
  • At times be main point person for some projects that involve several people
  • Keep main office, showroom and lunchroom clean and stocked
  • Answer incoming calls for the whole company. Answer the showroom door.

 


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