Sr. Accountant (SAP & Manufacturing Required)

Our partner client is seeking a strong Sr. Accountant with SAP and Manufacturing experience to join their growing Corporate Accounting & Finance Team. 

Summary:

Reporting to the Controller, the Senior Accountant holds the responsibility for maintaining compliance with GAAP accounting practices and procedures to ensure accurate and timeliness of consolidated and regional financial statements spanning domestic and international areas of our business: revenue and expense recognition, reserves and accruals. The Senior Accountant is responsible for ensuring department work processes and procedures are completed accurately and on time providing quality review of accounting transactions. This position includes tight deadlines and a multitude of accounting activities including general ledger G/L accounting, financial reporting, audit support annual planning activities. Responsible for accounting and finance matters, proposed changes to policies and procedures achieve best practices in accounting operations, etc. 

Scope of Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain best practices for closing and producing quality financial statements timely and accurately.
• Assist with budget owners towards improved annual budget cycle.
• Support overall department goals and objectives.
• Monitor and analyze department work to develop more efficient procedures and use of resources while maintaining a high level of accuracy.
  Obtain and maintain a thorough understanding of the financial reporting and general ledger accounting principles and standard practices, including developing subject matter expertise for the ERP and financial reporting system. Stay current on GAAP and IFRS standards.
  
• Recommend solutions regarding the handling of non-routine accounting transactions.
• Responds to inquiries from Leadership Team and Managers regarding financial results, special reporting requests and the like.
• Proactively provide insight and recommendations to budget managers to ensure continued alignment with the budget utilizing forecast tools.
  
• Proactively monitor accounting transactions, identify large fluctuations, conduct analysis and communicate to appropriate managers.
• Ensure quarterly and year-end audit deadlines are met.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities, reduce process time and document procedures to enhance the workflow.
• Identify and leverage opportunities to optimize cash flow and support business objectives.
• Support weekly forecasting and monthly close functions by conducting reconciliations of various balance sheet accounts to include inventory, cash, reserves and daily bank reconciliation activity.
• Collect, analyze and finalize data on an annual basis for the standard cost roll.
• Special projects and workflow process improvements.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Admin or Related field required. Master's and/or CPA a plus. 
  
• 5+ years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
• SAP ECP (FICO module) with ability to navigate all business transactions and understand work flows through to the general ledger. Capable of identifying and extracting data required to account, analyze and report on the business.
• SAP COPA, Business Intelligence and Host Analytics Financial reporting software experience are a plus.
• Solid knowledge of accounting transaction cycles such as sales order, and purchase order and internal controls.
• Ability to create and communicate management summary reports with supporting detailed analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel (i.e. pivot tables, lookup tables).