Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager with a manufacturing company.
 

Summary

The Accounting Manager will support a multi-plant, non-union manufacturing environment. The scope is corporate office and multi location U.S. manufacturing and distribution center footprint encompassing several hundred to low thousands of employees.
This role reports to the Controller, and manages a team of 4-5 people.

Responsibilities

• Manage and review monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes to ensure timely and accurate financial statements
• Prepare and review balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations
• Analyze financial results and provide variance explanations to management
• Oversee general ledger activities, including proper transaction coding and account classification
• Supervise account reconciliations and ensure timely resolution of discrepancies
• Maintain and enforce accounting policies and procedures
• Oversee key accounting functions including cash, fixed assets, inventory, warranty, intercompany accounting, accruals, prepaids and taxes
• Ensure proper cutoff, inventory accounting, and cost accounting practices
• Monitor and improve transaction-level accuracy and efficiency
• Ensure compliance with US GAAP and internal accounting policies
• Maintain and enforce SOX controls, including documentation and testing readiness
• Coordinate and lead internal and external audits
• Prepare audit schedules and support audit requests
• Implement audit recommendations and remediate control deficiencies

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• 7–10 years of progressive accounting experience
• Corporate accounting and/or private equity background
• Strong command of US GAAP and financial reporting standards
• Proven experience managing month-end close and audit cycles
• Technical accounting depth
• Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Cost accounting and inventory accounting exposure
• Managed teams
• CPA license
• ERP proficiency — Infor, Oracle, and others
• SOX compliance background