Senior Accountant
Workplace Type: Hybrid (On-site 2 days/week or 1 week/month)
Position Type: Direct-Hire
Performance Objectives
- Evaluate business transactions and prepare journal entries.
- Perform and maintain ownership of complex account reconciliations.
- Ensure the accuracy and completeness of financial records.
- Analyze financial results and investigate trends and variances.
- Provide insights to support informed business and financial decisions.
- Serve as the primary resource for inventory accounting processes.
- Oversee inventory and cost accounting activities, including inventory valuation, reserves, cost of goods sold (COGS), and adjustments.
- Reconcile inventory subledgers to the general ledger.
- Investigate discrepancies and support physical inventory counts and cycle count activities.
- Partner with FP&A and operational stakeholders to ensure accurate coding and classification of transactions.
- Support reliable financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting processes.
- Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes and strengthen internal controls.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives.
- Prepare and maintain documentation related to accounting processes, reconciliations, account analyses, key judgments, and control activities.
- Support audit readiness and process consistency.
- Coordinate and execute assigned month-end and year-end close activities.
- Prepare audit schedules, workpapers, and supporting documentation.
- Respond to auditor inquiries and information requests.
- Participate in ad hoc reporting initiatives, system implementations, and special projects as needed.
Essential Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent experience
- CPA or progress toward it is a plus, not required
- 5+ years of accounting experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of inventory accounting methods
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Experience leading process improvements and internal controls
- Hands-on command of an ERP or accounting platform and advanced Excel (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs)
- Strong communication skills - must be able to take initiative and collaborate cross-functionally