Accounting Manager

Responsibilities

• Support the accounting team in overseeing the monthly, quarterly, and annual closing process.
• Prepare journal entries and account/balance sheet reconciliations and complete variance analysis.
• Maintain and utilize financial analysis tools to prepare financial reporting packages.
• Monitor and ensure compliance with GAAP, regulatory requirements, and other internal policies and best practices.
• Perform and supervise reviews of projects to ensure that estimates are maintained accurately and that all job-related transactions are recorded in the appropriate periods.
• Direct and support the accounting team’s daily operations, accounts receivable/accounts payable activity.
• Support the accounting team with monitoring customer collections and vendor payments while maintaining relationships with suppliers and customers.
• Collaborate with other departments (Sales, Operations, HR, etc.) to ensure alignment of business operations and financial goals.
• Proactively identify and address discrepancies, errors, or irregularities in financial data. Work quickly and efficiently to resolve issues, ensuring that accounting records remain precise and reliable.
• Assist in and support process improvement projects.
• Prepare audit schedules and provide supporting documentation for external auditors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance required
• Strong PC skills in Microsoft Office applications and the ability to learn accounting system applications
• A desire and ability to support multiple locations
• High level of initiative with ability to prioritize, multi-task, and deal with ambiguity and manage projects
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written

Other Skills & Abilities

• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Physical Demands

• Regularly stand, walk, and sit.
• Frequently reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Note

This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Meriton is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Reasonable accommodations will be made for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.