Staff Accountant

Role Summary

Will function as a key member of the accounting team. Reporting to the Plant Controller, this position will focus on maximizing plant profitability while maintaining strong accounting controls.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide financial information, analysis, and support to the location and corporate management team as required.
• Contributes to the development, review, and implementation of the operating budget and performance projections.
• Responds to information requests, researches and interprets data, and answers accounting and financial questions.
• Up to 20% of the time may be spent providing quoting & estimating support to the Plant Controller.
• Works with Inventory / Production Control team to ensure accuracy of inventory transactions and production data.
• Much of the work may be project-based accounting.
• Complete financial analysis to monitor costs and financial position in key areas such as volumes, margins, scrap, utilities, labor, inventory, etc.
• Analyze plant income statement and inventory transactions to identify issues, report on performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Daily, weekly, and month-end activities as required to ensure a complete, accurate and timely close process.
• Aids in timely invoicing on projects & provides a detailed job cost report using Visual ERP and Excel reports.
• Maintains general ledger and transaction processing.
• Maintains monthly and annual account reconciliations & audit schedules.
• Ensures relevant accounting guidelines and policies are properly and consistently applied.
• Coordinates with HR on payroll activity.
• Takes part in annual physical inventory process for tag entry and reconciliations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
• 2+ years of experience in accounting / finance with general ledger responsibilities in a manufacturing environment (or similar)
• Experience in account analyzing accounting records and entities for accuracy and conformance to GAAP
• Experience in monthly closing and preparing financial statements
• Strong aptitude in ERP systems and MS Office applications