Client is seeking a Senior Accountant to play a key role in overseeing accounts payable operations, supporting monthly close and financial reporting, and providing financial analysis to support business performance.
This position will work closely with the CFO and cross-functional teams to ensure accurate financial processes, strong internal controls, and effective cost management. This role is considered developmental, with a clear opportunity to advance into a Controller position based on performance, leadership capability, and business acumen.
In this role you will manage and coordinate the accounts payable process, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance with company policies as well as partner with purchasing and receiving teams to streamline invoice receipt, review, matching, and payment processing.
As the Senior Accountant you will facilitate weekly AP check runs and support transition from paper checks to ACH payments, assist in the development and implementation of electronic payment interfaces, and reconcile all debits and ACH transactions and prepare related journal entries.
The Senior Accountant will reconcile corporate credit card transactions and record expense journal entries, perform monthly reconciliation of cash and primary balance sheet accounts, facilitate and complete monthly close procedures, ensuring accurate and timely reporting, and maintain prepaid and amortization schedules.
The Senior Accountant will assist with fleet lease management, including assignment and tracking of expenses by vehicle, maintain cost centers for equipment and vehicles within the ERP system, and support cost management, production flow tracking, and operational analysis.
The Senior Accountant will assist in maintaining working capital and weekly profitability models, prepare and analyze financial performance metrics and variance analysis, and assist with financial statement preparation, budgeting, and forecasting.
The Senior Accountant will support tax vs. book reporting and audit-related activities, collaborate with leadership to provide insights that drive operational and financial improvements, and assist the CFO with management of the Captive insurance program.
The Senior Accountant will support workers’ compensation loss funds, prepaid amortization schedules, and IBNR/LDF reserve calculations.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience
Strong understanding of accounting theory and GAAP
Proven experience managing accounts payable processes
Understanding of manufacturing operations and cost accounting preferred
Highly detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and time-management abilities
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work across departments
Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel
Ability to collaborate effectively with employees at all levels, management, and external partners
Career Growth Opportunity
This role is designed as a developmental position for an individual seeking advancement into a Controller-level role. Advancement will be based on demonstrated technical expertise, leadership ability, initiative, and overall performance.
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