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Senior Accountant
Location: East Boston, Hybrid, 1 day in-office a week
Mission of the Role
As Senior Accountant at Downeast Cider House, you’ll ensure accurate financial reporting, optimize processes, and provide key insights to support growth. Overseeing AP/AR, month-end close, and audits, you’ll help maintain financial integrity while driving continuous improvement in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Job Responsibilities
- Oversee AP and AR, including reviewing invoices, running AR/AP aging meetings, and processing payments
- Audit and approve employee expense reports, ensuring timely turnarounds while adhering to company policies
- Own the month-end close process, ensuring a timely and accurate close of the general ledger; includes preparation and review of journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset accounting and expense reports
- Ensure compliance with accounting policies, reviewing financial statements on a monthly basis
- Support audits and financial reviews, assisting with ad hoc requests for internal and external audits
- Create, maintain, and review accounting process documentation, including company policies and executional procedures
- Create and maintain weekly rolling cash-flow forecasts, ensuring compliance with lender requirements and providing insights into operating cash flow
- Apply an analytical mindset to everything you do, identifying errors and suggesting ways to optimize within the finance team and beyond
- Support the Finance Director and other leaders in ad hoc projects to improve the business
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of accounting experience, ideally in a manufacturing environment
- Experience in small to mid-sized companies ($20M - $1B revenue)
- Hands-on experience closing the books, with significant responsibility, including fixed asset accounting and balance sheet reconciliations
- Experience managing the close schedule, ensuring financial reports are completed accurately and on time
- Actively involved in annual audits or reviews of financial statements
- Comfortable working independently while contributing to a collaborative team that embraces a continuous improvement mindset
- Strong general accounting skills, including AP/AR, reconciliations, journal entries, and month-end close
- Extremely comfortable with technology: excellent Excel skills, history of quickly learning accounting systems, and ability to turn large sets of data into actionable information through strong analytical and problem solving ability
- Able to work from our Cider House in East Boston up to one day per week
Bonus Points
- Ability to maintain the cost model for standard costing, including regular review of overhead and labor rates with the Operations team.
- Review Federal/State Excise Tax Return filings and individual state shipment reports accurately and efficiently by monthly due dates.
Benefits
- Unlimited paid time off
- Paid holidays
- 401k with 4% company match
- Health and dental insurance
- Company provided short term disability insurance
- Company-wide celebrations, including a summer offsite and holiday party
- Cider allowance (how big is your fridge)
All offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted after a conditional job offer has been made. Candidates will have the opportunity to review and respond to any findings.
We aspire to build an enduring company with a world-class brand, known as an extraordinary place to work. It’s been 14 years since our first batches of unfiltered cider were fermented in the dorms of Bates College, Maine, and while we’ve gained 231 new teammates and 1.6 million cases of tasty drinks - with a growing assortment beyond cider - we remain 100% founder-owned. We’re a scrappy team that enjoys the hard work of creating a company because we get to work on fun things with people we like.
We like to hire the way we like our cider, unfiltered. With the understanding that we can learn and grow from each other’s differences, we are proud to hire regardless of gender, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, or anything else that makes us who we are.
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