Senior Accountant

About the role

This position will be primarily responsible for the general financial and operational accounting functions, including customer invoicing, month-end close, financial reporting, and supporting the financial forecasting function. The successful candidate will be a vital member of a growing team, assisting with the decarbonization of aviation through comprehensive sustainability solutions. The candidate will have a role in all pillars of sustainability including carbon offsets, sustainable aviation fuel, in addition to supporting the financial reporting function, such as month-end duties, financial forecasting, and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Manage 4AIR’s customer base across various products & services, including preparation of customer invoices and coordinating with 4AIR’s Program Managers to support client needs.
• Aid with month-end close, including completing monthly operational journal entries, monthly reconciliations, and managing accounting for expense reports.
• Aid with inventory procurement, management, and inventory allocation to clients across different inventory types.
• Effectively adapt to changing responsibilities and priorities, in a sometimes ambiguous and evolving area of scope.
• Support new company initiatives, including new ERP system evaluation & implementation and expansion into new geographies.
• Create new tools and processes to improve company private and public resources.
• Becomes a subject matter expert on carbon accounting within aviation.
• Provides oversight on vendor and customer management.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in accounting or financial reporting.
• Strong understanding of GAAP principles and financial reporting standards.

Qualifications

• Interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with management, employees, customers, external contacts, and other departments.
• Working knowledge of process improvement methodology and application, accounting and budgeting principals necessary to read and interpret profit/loss statements, develop and build financial-based models.
• Ability to accept feedback and work collaboratively as part of a team to develop and apply skills in a unique setting.
• Thoughtful application of inventory management, recordkeeping and documentation principles.
• Ability to meet deadlines, must be comfortable prioritizing tasks, demonstrate flexibility, display a strong work ethic, fanatical attention to detail, and sense of urgency.
• Proven ability to identify problems based on quantitative figures then solve those problems.
• Create and analyze complex accounting models utilizing Microsoft Excel and PowerBI.

Skills and Competencies

• Interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with management, employees, customers, external contacts, and other departments.
• Ability to professionally represent the company at industry events.
• Working knowledge of process improvement methodology and application, accounting and budgeting principals necessary to read and interpret profit/loss statements, develop and build financial-based models.
• Ability to accept feedback and work collaboratively as part of a team to develop and apply skills in a unique setting.
• Thoughtful application of inventory management, recordkeeping and documentation principles.
• Ability to meet deadlines, must be comfortable prioritizing tasks, demonstrate flexibility, display a strong work ethic, fanatical attention to detail, and sense of urgency.
• Proven ability to identify problems based on quantitative figures then solve those problems.
• Create and analyze complex accounting models utilizing Microsoft Excel and PowerBI.

Key Skills and Competencies

• Interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with management, employees, customers, external contacts, and other departments.
• Ability to professionally represent the company at industry events.
• Working knowledge of process improvement methodology and application, accounting and budgeting principals necessary to read and interpret profit/loss statements, develop and build financial-based models.
• Ability to accept feedback and work collaboratively as part of a team to develop and apply skills in a unique setting.
• Thoughtful application of inventory management, recordkeeping and documentation principles.
• Ability to meet deadlines, must be comfortable prioritizing tasks, demonstrate flexibility, display a strong work ethic, fanatical attention to detail, and sense of urgency.
• Proven ability to identify problems based on quantitative figures then solve those problems.
• Create and analyze complex accounting models utilizing Microsoft Excel and PowerBI.

Location

Hybrid – Office space available in Cleveland, OH, Columbus, OH, and Plymouth, MA.