Accounting Manager

Brief Description

The Accounting Manager should demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of General Ledger accounting, managing the month-end close process, and experience handling complex issues and problems. This position will support the Director of Accounting with the month-end close activities as well as Balance Sheet account reconciliations, account activity analysis and related journal entries. In addition, the Accounting Manager should have excellent written and verbal communication skills and demonstrate leadership qualities by training, coaching and/or mentoring the junior staff.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the month-end close activities based on the monthly close checklist including generating reports, analyzing data and account balances, preparing and/or reviewing journal entries
• Assess the team’s strengths and opportunities and workload to ensure optimal effectiveness
• Modify checklist and/or redistribute tasks based on each person’s capabilities.
• Partner with team in the weekly flash / interim reports preparation and review
• Review and/or prepare Balance Sheet account reconciliations as assigned each month and ensure all accounts are properly reconciled in an accurate and timely manner.
• Manage the Staff and Senior Accountants by providing work instruction, training and reviewing their work to ensure accuracy and timeliness of deliverables
• Assist in the year-end financial statement audit by completing the assigned requests
• Prepare and support proper documentation for monthly and year-end financial statement disclosures
• Demonstrate an understanding of P/L Statements and provide variance analysis to budget
• Enhance internal controls over operational accounting processes and systems
• Partner with cross functional leaders to identify opportunities for process improvements, establish best practices and facilitate on-going reporting advancements
• Support ad-hoc requests for reporting or analysis
  
  

Requirements:

• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Strong in-depth knowledge of GAAP, month end close processes, internal controls and financial reporting
• Ability to work independently efficiently and effectively execute on multiple projects while managing team members
• Strong attention to detail to ensure accuracy
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in high volume environment and efficiently manage multiple projects
• Specific experience working in a corporate environment.
  
  

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• Minimum 6 years of experience in corporate general accounting
• Minimum 2 years managing teams
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred
  
  

Technology Skills:

• Familiarity / Competency with Dynamics365, or other ERP/accounting systems.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint)
• Microsoft Excel: Expert in analytics, data management, pivot tables, VLOOKUP’s, etc
• Video conferencing software – Microsoft Teams
• Other Reporting: Microsoft Power BI
  
  

Work Environment:

• Sedentary work under a hybrid schedule
• Ability to work extended hours as needed.
• Ability to work weekends and holidays as needed.
  
  

Baldor History:

When Louis Balducci rented a pushcart for $5.00 a week in 1918, little did he know that he was laying the foundations for Baldor Specialty Foods. In 1946, Louis opened a fruit stand called Balducci’s Produce in Greenwich Village that flourished into a beloved specialty food shop. Food writer James Beard was a regular customer and noted that Balducci’s always sold “the best of the best, at the right price.”

A family business from the start, the company employed numerous family members including son-in-law, Kevin Murphy. Murphy ran Balducci’s wholesale division, Baldor, so passionately that the Balducci family encouraged him to establish the business as an independent entity in 1991. Over the next decade, Baldor sustained continuous growth while maintaining the standard of excellence that made Balducci’s a success. The company cemented its reputation for sourcing expertise after introducing blanched frisee to the American market. Murphy named it “Circus Frisee” after famed restaurant Le Cirque.

Today, Baldor is the leading importer and distributor of fresh produce and specialty foods in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. The company is headed by Kevin’s son, T.J. Murphy, C.E.O. Under his leadership, Baldor remains committed to customer service, quality and innovation.

Baldor Specialty Foods has a long legacy of quality, consistency and service.

Under the leadership of the former Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Murphy, President Mike Muzyk joined Baldor in 1996 and today works closely with Kevin’s son, TJ Murphy, who has been the Owner and Chief Executive Office since 2013. Under the leadership and partnership of TJ and Mike, in the last seven years, Baldor has achieved consistent double-digit growth in addition to geographic, category, product and channel expansion.