Job Description
Title: Senior Accountant
Department: Finance
Reports to: Controller
Position Summary
The Senior Accountant is responsible for supporting the Company’s accounting and financial reporting functions through timely month-end close activities, preparation of complex journal entries and account reconciliations, financial analysis, payroll accounting, fixed asset and inventory accounting, budgeting support, audit and tax compliance, and continuous process improvement. This position partners with operational departments to provide financial insight, strengthen internal controls, and support strategic business objectives.
Essential Job Functions
Financial Reporting & Month-End Cloe:
- Prepare and post recurring and non-recurring journal entries.
- Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual account reconciliations.
- Analyze balance sheet and income statement accounts to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with company policies.
- Prepare and reconcile monthly intercompany transactions.
- Investigate and resolve accounting discrepancies and significant account variances.
- Support the preparation of monthly financial statements and management reporting.
- Assist with the annual budgeting and forecasting process.
- Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes and internal controls.
Payroll Accounting:
- Review payroll for accuracy and completeness.
- Prepare and record payroll journal entries into the general ledger.
- Reconcile payroll-related balance sheet accounts.
- Assist with payroll reporting and compliance requirements as needed.
Department Budgeting:
- Prepare timely monthly department budget-to-actual variance reports.
- Partner with department managers to understand operational drivers impacting financial results.
- Assist department managers in developing action plans for significant budget variances.
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis to support operational and strategic decision-making.
General Accounting:
- Perform general accounting activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and ad hoc financial analysis.
- Apply customer cash receipts accurately and timely.
- Assist with accounts receivable collections and customer credit reviews as needed.
- Review and establish customer credit limits in accordance with Company policies.
- Support inventory cycle counts and annual physical inventory procedures.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls while identifying opportunities for process improvements.
- Complete assigned month-end close responsibilities accurately and within established deadlines.
- Prepare and record month-end accruals and other adjusting entries.
- Review and process employee expense reports.
- Administer the Company corporate credit card and purchasing card programs.
- Maintain fixed asset and intangible asset records, including additions, disposals, depreciation, and annual physical verification.
- Maintain debt schedules, including loan balances, interest expense, principal payments, and deferred financing cost amortization.
- Maintain accurate intercompany accounting and ensure balances are reconciled timely.
- Support the annual financial statement audit, tax compliance activities, and physical inventory observations.
- Prepare annual reports, property tax filings, and other regulatory filings as required.
- Cross-train with other accounting team members and provide backup support as needed.
- Maintain written accounting procedures and assist in training backup resources.
- Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.
Product Pricing (As Needed):
- Complete product pricing requests accurately and within established timelines.
- Analyze product margins and raw material costs to support pricing recommendations.
- Partner with Supply Chain to evaluate future raw material costs and potential impacts on product margins.
- Collaborate with Sales to support pricing strategies, customer quotations, and price increase initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to improve pricing processes and reporting.
Minimum requirements
Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or related field
Work Experience: 3+ years experience
Certification: CPA or CMA designation preferred
Industry Knowledge: Flavor Industry experience not required, however preferred as it relates to this role within the growing organization.
Winning Behaviors, Competencies, and Skills
- Accuracy – High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Active Listening – Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
- Accountability – Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
- Adaptability – Ability to adapt to change in the workplace.
- Assertiveness – Ability to act in a self-confident manner to facilitate completion of a work assignment or to defend a position or idea.
- Autonomy – Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Communication, Oral – Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word.
- Communication, Written – Ability to communicate in writing clearly and concisely.
- Detail Oriented – Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
- Initiative – Ability to make decisions or take actions to solve a problem or reach a goal.
- Leadership-Provides guidance, direction and mentorship
- Organized – Possessing the trait of being organized or following a systematic method of performing a task.
- Problem Solving – Ability to find a solution for or to deal proactively with work-related problems.
- Reliability – The trait of being dependable and trustworthy.
Personality and Communication (soft skills):
- Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
- The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
- Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
- A track record of following through on commitments.
- Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
- Experience leading and developing top performing teams.
- A history of leading and supporting successful projects.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Deadline and detail-oriented
Hard skills:
- Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Advanced technical skills.
- Excellent documentation skills.
- Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.
Additional information
Amount of Travel Required:
Core business hours - works the job as needed to support the organization
