Senior Accountant - Controls

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare journal entries and account analysis in conjunction with month end close.
• Responsible for analyzing, maintaining, and improving the company’s cost accounting processes, inventory valuation, standard costing, and manufacturing financial reporting.
• Review and analyze production variances including labor, material and overhead.
• Review A/R, A/P, inventory, and property accounting areas to ensure an appropriate roll-up of information in the financial statements.
• Manage Intercompany transactions monthly ensuring each entity is in agreement.
• Serve as main contact for sales programs such as commissions, calculating accruals and coordinate payouts.
• Participate in Finance and Continuous Improvement, Cost Savings, Profit Improvement, and Management by Fact projects.
• A driver of process improvement both in finance and the business. Always identifying ways to automate and streamline the close process and other work being done by the finance group.
• Drive analysis and reporting automation by leveraging data mining and business intelligence tool sets.
• Support functional leaders through business partnership, ad-hoc reporting, and mutual ownership and preparation of respective annual budget and quarterly forecasts.
• Analyze and report on business unit expenses including variances compared to budget, prior year, and forecast.
• Assist in preparing monthly financial reporting packages and quarterly financial updates for the Executive Team and Board of Directors.
• Assist in the development and preparation of ad-hoc financial and business analysis.
• Aid in the development, maintenance, and roll-out of finance policies and procedures to ensure proper internal control as well as compliance with US GAAP, various regulatory requirements, and internal company policies.
• Prepare and distribute daily, weekly, and monthly reports, as required.
• Research and application of technical US GAAP and other international requirements.
• Prepare and submit annual reports, license registrations, 1099’s and other filings to ensure compliance with state and local regulatory compliance.

Treasury Administrator

• Coordinate recurring borrowings and interest payments with IEWC’s banking partners.
• Manage cash activity between intercompany partners, assist with intercompany trade settlements.
• Serve as a back-up for monthly bank reporting requirements.
• Participate in annual bank audit.
• Support worldwide intercompany finance structure and cash concentration/mobilization initiatives including recommendations for excess cash.
• Aid in treasury and other Continuous Improvement, Cost Savings, Profit Improvement projects.
• Other treasury duties, as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Certified Public Accountant or other finance/accounting certifications plus.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions using learned techniques and tools.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical and business information and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Ability to work in a Windows environment, to work with your department’s business applications (particularly Excel) and with standard current computer applications.
• Advance Excel and financial modeling skills a plus.
• Attention to detail, accuracy and confidentiality.