Accounting Director

About the role

Twin City Foods, Inc. is a leading Frozen Vegetable Producer committed to delivering high-quality, nutritious, and sustainably sourced frozen vegetables to consumers worldwide. With a focus on innovation, quality assurance, and environmental responsibility, we have established ourselves as a key player in the frozen food industry. Twin City Foods is a family-owned business navigating a period of significant operational and financial transformation. The company is actively investing in systems modernization — including Planful and AP/AR automation — and strengthening its financial infrastructure to support the next phase of growth.

Responsibilities

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close — set the calendar, direct the team, review the work, and ensure the final package is accurate and on time.
• Deliver variance explanations and insights to the CFO that go beyond the numbers — clear on what changed, why, and what it means operationally.
• Maintain GL integrity, chart of accounts discipline, and inter-period consistency.
• Ensure all accounting outputs meet GAAP, FASB, lender covenants, and internal reporting standards.
• Manage the day-to-day banking relationship with lender — account structure, authorization controls, and weekly Borrowing Base Certificate process.
• Develop weekly 13-week cash flow projection.
• Maintain visibility into daily cash positioning; surface liquidity risks to the CFO proactively.
• Oversee AP payment runs, vendor payment terms, and disbursement controls; evaluate automation opportunities.
• Direct costing policy — standard cost setup, overhead allocation methodology, and seasonal absorption approach — in partnership with Operations.
• Review manufacturing variance reports from the Sr. Cost Accountant; ensure variances are explained operationally, not just calculated.
• Oversee inventory valuation, physical inventory, and cycle count programs; coordinate with Operations on yield and usage analysis.
• Partner with FP&A team on manufacturing and product cost inputs to forecasting and pricing support.
• Build and maintain the analytical framework for other selling revenue and costs: actuals vs. billed, trend analysis, category-level P&L, and driver identification.
• Partner with Sales and Operations leadership to understand billing practices, contract terms, and recovery rates; translate findings into actionable improvement opportunities.
• Work with FP&A to ensure other selling is accurately reflected in forecasts and monthly reporting.
• Track progress against break-even targets; present findings and recommendations to CFO and commercial leadership on a regular cadence.
• Work with Controller and AR Manager to flag structural issues — underpriced freight rates, unbilled storage, broker contract terms, high cash discount exposure — and support the business in addressing them.
• Serve as the primary coordinator for the external audit — manage the PBC calendar, direct audit prep, and serve as the CPA firm's main finance contact.
• Review the annual tax return with external CPA; identify questions and flag tax efficiency opportunities for CFO consideration.
• Oversee property tax filings, personal property appraisals, and state/local compliance calendars.
• Support lender field exams and borrowing base audits; maintain internal controls documentation.
• Coordinate annual updates to shareholder ownership computations.
• Manage the annual commercial insurance renewal cycle across all lines — property, equipment, product liability, workers' compensation, and D&O.
• Interface with IT on report builds, SQL-based data queries, and automation initiatives that affect accounting accuracy or efficiency.
• Sponsor and drive adoption of AP/AR automation tools and process improvements; maintain human oversight on automated outputs.
• Actively seek opportunities to apply AI and automation in ways that reduce manual effort without sacrificing control.
• Directly lead two direct reports — Controller and Sr. Cost Accountant — with full accounting operations team (AR Manager, Treasury Specialist & AP Team Lead, and Accounting Specialists) reporting through the Controller; set expectations, develop capability, and hold the team accountable.
• Build a team culture of accuracy, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Lead and leverage a highly experienced Controller — this role includes a seasoned accounting professional with deep institutional knowledge; the Director is expected to draw on that expertise, not work around it.
• Run the accounting function with a defined management system — clear KPIs for each role, explicit ownership of recurring processes, and a regular cadence of review; surface problems early and drive to root cause rather than workaround.
• Serve as the accounting function's voice in cross-functional discussions with Operations, Sales, and IT.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 3 years leading a team or function.
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP in a manufacturing or processing environment.
• Hands-on experience with standard cost accounting, manufacturing variance analysis, and inventory valuation.
• Demonstrated ownership of a monthly close process.
• Experience managing external audit relationships and coordinating audit preparation.
• High proficiency with ERP systems and financial reporting tools; strong Excel skills.
• Strongly Preferred CPA or CMA (active or inactive).
• Experience in food manufacturing, agricultural processing, or other seasonal / batch-process manufacturing.
• Experience working in Standard Cost environment.
• Familiarity with ABL or seasonal credit facilities and borrowing base reporting.
• Experience with SQL and AP/AR automation platforms.
• Background in a family-owned or closely held business environment.
• Experience with Planful, Adage, or comparable ERP/CPM platforms.

Skills

• Analytical ownership — Builds the model, owns the narrative, drives the insight — not a reporter of what others produce.
• Direct communicator — Directly engages the CFO and senior leadership; clear and concise under pressure.
• Change orientation — Improves processes while respecting legacy expertise; energized by building.
• High adaptability — Comfortable in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and ambiguity is normal.
• Accountability mindset — Takes full ownership of outcomes across the team; closes loops without prompting.
• Business curiosity — Genuinely interested in understanding what drives the numbers, not just recording them.
• Continuous improvement mindset — Identifies root causes rather than treating symptoms; brings structured problem-solving to process gaps, control weaknesses, and recurring variances — not satisfied with workarounds or inherited processes that no longer serve the business.
• Management system orientation — Understands the value of operating with defined KPIs, clear ownership, and regular cadence; has worked within — or helped build — a structured operating rhythm and knows why it matters.
• Seasonal IQ — Understands or quickly learns the cash, cost, and volume dynamics of a seasonal processing business.

Benefits

• Competitive Wages, Range $160,000-$190,000 per year, depending on experience.
• Excellent Benefit Package:
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance.
  • Flexible Spending Account.
  • Life, AD&D and LTD Insurance.
  • Paid Holidays-10 paid holidays per year.
  • Paid Time Off- 20 days per year, prorated based on month hired.
  • 401K Retirement Plan.

Pay

• Competitive Wages, Range $160,000-$190,000 per year, depending on experience.

Schedule

• On-site at our Stanwood or Pasco Location.