Senior Project Accountant

Key Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on accounting activities necessary to support new business initiatives, including journal entries, reconciliations, account mappings, reporting, and system configuration.
• Own the accounting workstream for cross-functional projects, ensuring financial processes are accurately designed, executed, and aligned with Electrolit’s reporting and control standards.
• Partner closely with the Controller, Finance leadership, Operations, IT, and external stakeholders to execute accounting deliverables tied to business growth.
• Maintain full accountability for the accuracy, completeness, and quality of all accounting outputs related to assigned initiatives.

Process Development & Optimization

• Design, document, and implement scalable accounting processes that support Electrolit’s growth, complexity, and evolving operational footprint.
• Identify inefficiencies, manual workarounds, and control gaps; recommend and implement practical, sustainable improvements.
• Ensure all newly developed workflows align with internal controls, compliance requirements, and segregation-of-duties standards.
• Provide financial and operational insights to support continuous improvement across project-based accounting activities.

Systems & Implementation

• Support ERP and accounting system implementations, enhancements, and process changes across finance and operations.
• Translate business requirements into effective accounting workflows and system configurations.
• Participate in testing, validation, and go-live activities to ensure accounting accuracy and reporting integrity.
• Support integration of new business processes, vendors, warehouses, or distribution channels into financial systems.

Transition to Operations

• Ensure new accounting processes are fully documented, tested, and operationally ready prior to transition.
• Develop training materials and conduct knowledge-transfer sessions for the operational accounting team.
• Provide post-implementation support to stabilize processes and ensure successful adoption.

Project Coordination & Governance

• Serve as the primary liaison between the accounting team and cross-functional project stakeholders, including IT and Process Improvement.
• Cookordination accounting activities to align with project timelines, milestones, and dependencies.
• Track and manage accounting-specific deliverables, proactively communicating risks, constraints, or resource needs.
• Achieve accounting requirements clearly defined, documented, and embedded into broader project plans.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on, execution-driven mindset with comfort operating in a build-and-improve environment.
• Proven ability to design, document, and implement accounting processes in a growing organization.
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Strong communicator capable of influencing cross-functional partners and explaining accounting concepts to non-finance audiences.
• High attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced Excel proficiency and experience with ERP systems (SAP experience a plus).
• Ability to meet routine month-end deadlines while supporting project-based work.
• Knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting, and project-based cost tracking.
• Understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis within a CPG or distribution-focused environment.