Accountant

Job Description
Job Responsibilities:
- Prepare, examine or analyze accounting records, financial statements or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Develop, maintain, and analyze budgets, preparing periodic reports that compare budgeted costs to actual costs.
- Develop, implement, modify, and document recordkeeping and accounting systems.
- Compute taxes owed and prepare tax returns, ensuring compliance with payment, reporting or other tax requirements.
- Prepare forms and manuals for accounting and bookkeeping personnel and direct their work activities.

Skills:
- Verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, and critical thinking.
- Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
- Ability to apply accounting and mathematical principles to work as needed.
- Ability to analyze business trends and project future revenues and expenses.
- Knowledge of federal, state, and company policies, procedures and regulations as related to accounting.
- Previous experience with computer applications, such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and any other related accounting software.

Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or related financial discipline required. An advanced degree in a financial discipline is preferred.
- 5-7 years financial and/or accounting experience required.

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- Daily Purchasing support
- Monthly financial closing activities
- Monthly financial reporting activities
- Create standard job work and identify activities that could be redirected to a shared services group

Why Client? “Whether it be ground-breaking products, best in class solutions or a lifelong career, you can build what matters to you at Client. With 150 locations in countries around the world, what you create at Client travels and helps people around the world. You can collaborate with the best minds in the industry, complete meaningful work and continuously grow and develop through our various opportunities. Here, you can do the work that matters.”

Why this Role?
- A significant amount of investment and plant improvements planned over the next 3 years.
- Opportunity to be part of this transformation, make an impact at the plant, and develop a legacy that could turn into a permanent role.

Typical task breakdown:
- Managing POs and spend for those projects as they execute
- Month-end closing activities to clean up system grief, create journal entries, create accruals, explain monthly variances, create reporting presentations/slides

Interaction with team:
- Support the current Plant Finance Manager directly
- Work with Plant leadership and staff on projects
- Learn the foundry manufacturing process

Work environment:
- Mostly office cubicle, conference room, and occasional visit to the plant floor
- Must be onsite at least 3 days a week, but may require 4-5 at times.

Education & Experience Required:
- 4 year Bachelor’s degree required
- Preferred to be concentrated in Accounting

Top 3 Skills
- Ability to work independently and manage one’s time.
- Ability to apply accounting and mathematical principles to work as needed.
- Ability to analyze business trends and project future revenues and expenses.

Additional Technical Skills
(Required)
- Highly skilled with Excel (advanced formulas)/Powerpoint

(Desired)
- 3 years of experience in a manufacturing environment
- 3 years of experience working with capital investment analysis, product cost analysis, business proposal analysis, or similar
- 3 years of financial reporting and monthly closing activities
- CMA or CPA certified
- Skilled in Microsoft Access
- Skilled with Power BI and other analysis tools

Soft Skills
(Required)
- Ability to learn new systems quickly
- Ability to work under the pressure of tight deadlines.

Disqualifiers/Red Flags:
- Multiple jobs in 3-5 year span
- Communication skills poor in an interview
- Inability to explain responsibilities in recent roles and examples of performance in those roles

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $30.00 - $35.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Salary : $30 - $35