Summary:
The Senior Accountant provides ownership of general ledger integrity and key close activities to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting. This role partners cross-functionally to strengthen financial controls, oversee key finance operations (including corporate card administration and expense reporting governance), and provide increased tax oversight across sales/use tax, income tax, and property tax compliance. The position leads complex journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and analyses supporting Balance Sheet and P&L reporting; identifies and resolves accounting and compliance issues; and drives continuous improvement through standardization, automation, and effective use of AI tools to streamline workflows and improve insight.
Responsibilities:
- Owns general ledger accuracy by reviewing daily transactions, resolving posting issues, and ensuring completeness and adherence to accounting policies.
- Leads bank activity oversight, including daily cash posting/reconciliation and timely completion and review of monthly bank reconciliations with appropriate supporting documentation.
- Leads assigned components of the monthly/quarterly/annual close, including preparation and review of complex journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations; performs variance analysis and drives issue resolution.
- Manages intercompany accounting activities for assigned entities, including reconciliation, dispute resolution, and timely communication with intercompany affiliates to meet close timelines.
- Oversees fixed asset accounting for assigned locations, coordinating capitalization, disposals, and transfers; posts depreciation, reviews supporting detail, and completes monthly reconciliations to ensure policy compliance.
- Provides analysis and inputs to support weekly cash flow and liquidity reporting; identifies trends and risks and partners with Finance stakeholders on mitigation actions.
- Supports budgeting and forecasting by ensuring accurate cost center/internal order governance, validating mappings in the general ledger, and partnering on reporting requirements and management insights.
- Prepares and reviews audit schedules and workpapers; serves as a primary contact for assigned areas during quarterly reviews and annual audits; ensures documentation supports internal control requirements.
- Leads process improvement initiatives (automation, standard work, and close optimization), mentors junior staff, and performs special projects and analyses as assigned.
- Provides higher-level ownership of corporate credit card administration, including policy governance, cardholder onboarding/offboarding, spending limit and merchant category controls, compliance monitoring, and issue resolution in partnership with AP/Treasury.
- Oversees Concur Expense Reporting processes and controls, including workflow configuration governance, user guidance/training, audit rules/exception monitoring, and timely escalation/resolution of compliance concerns.
- Leads and/or oversees tax compliance activities, including sales and use tax preparation/support, property tax filings, and coordination of income tax deliverables with internal/external providers; ensures accurate data, supporting documentation, and on-time submissions.
- Applies current AI tools and automation techniques to improve close, reconciliation, expense, and tax processes; develops repeatable templates and controls to increase efficiency, accuracy, and auditability.
What You Need:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with U.S. and international stakeholders; ability to explain accounting impacts to non-accounting partners
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to research accounting matters, identify root causes, and recommend/implement solutions to improve reporting accuracy
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and independently manage multiple deadlines with minimal oversight; comfortable leading workstreams and coordinating across teams
- Strong systems aptitude; ERP experience (SAP preferred) and ability to support process improvements, controls, and reporting enhancements
- Strong tax knowledge with ability to oversee and/or support compliance activities across sales/use tax, income tax, and property tax; able to partner effectively with external advisors and internal stakeholders to ensure accurate, timely filings
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, data validation) required; ability to work efficiently with large data sets; comfort leveraging automation and AI-enabled tools to streamline reporting, reconciliations, and documentation
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field from an accredited college or university (required)
- 6+ years of progressive accounting experience (manufacturing environment preferred), including month-end close, reconciliations, audit support
- Demonstrated experience supporting or overseeing tax compliance activities (sales/use tax, property tax, and/or income tax deliverables)
- CPA/CMA preferred
Physical Requirements
- Sitting at workstation approximately 90 percent of work time, standing and walking approximately 10 percent of work time
- Must be able to lift 20 lbs
- Must be available to work overtime or weekends during month-end / year-end / audits or for special projects with short notice
- Regular Attendance Required