Accountant

Description

Position Overview:

Position provides and supports the cost accounting duties of the business. Responsibilities include partnering with IT, Product teams, Sales and Operational partners to improve business insights by accounting for operational activities while supporting the accumulation and analysis of data for management as it relates to business decisions. This is not a supervisory role. 

Responsibilities:

Accounting:

• Maintain and track costs for materials, labor and overhead. 

• Calculate and apply absorption rates for manufacturing overhead costs and review those rates regularly for any changes in production levels and cost structure.

• Work in the ERP subsystems to validate inventory valuation and perform variance analysis.

• Maintain subsystem dataflow to ERP for the process of daily posting related to business activities

• Actively perform month-end and year-end closing processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, and accruals

• Support Implementation, documentation and maintenance of adequate and effective internal controls and standard operating procedures

• Ensure financial policies are followed in accordance with IFRS/GAAP 

• Maintain timely reporting in accordance with company requirements to meet deadlines

• Support internal and external annual audits, tax, and review processes

Reporting:

• Support preparation and analysis of P&L statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports

• Work closely with local management and HQ accounting teams to ensure reporting information is available

• Maintain and create reports as needed

• Prepare financial data reports and other KPI results to leadership/management team

Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting:

• Support development and maintenance of annual budgets and periodic forecasts 

• Analyze actual results and budget/forecast variances, providing insights, key performance indicators and recommendations

Analysis:

• Supports business analysis to identify financial and business trends designed to mitigate risk

• Provides recommendations and develops processes to improve business and financial performance

Marginal Job Functions:

• Other projects as assigned

Requirements

Education:

• Requires Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

• CPA, CMA or MBA preferred

Experience:

• 2 years of accounting experience

• Advanced Microsoft Office Suite

• SAP experience preferred

• Experience with Concur and Adaptive Insights preferred

Other Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal, able to clearly communicate financial information in an easy-to-understand manner at multiple levels and functions within the business 

• Sound planning and organizational skills

• High level of proficiency in Excel and ERP/MRP systems

• Dual location position with travel required between Cottage Grove & Sturtevant, WI, with main office as Cottage Grove. Support for manufacturing facility travel (Sturtevant) monthly at minimum.

Skills:

Interpersonal:

• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with diverse groups of employees, managers and vendors

• Contributes to a positive working environment

Organization:

• Skilled in planning, organizing resources and establishing priorities for multiple work assignments for optimum results

• Achieves high percentage of task target date

• Suggests, develops and improves current work processes

• Willing to assist others when his/her tasks are complete

• Able to work independently with little supervision

• Contribute ideas to improving current processes

Communication & Teamwork:

• Excellent communication skills

• Promptly resolves conflicts and misunderstandings

• Open to suggestions and feedback from others

• Effectively presents ideas and information to employees at all levels of the organization

• Keeps others informed

• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

• Welcomes new challenges

• Able to maintain a positive work environment 

Other:

• Requires the ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality

Benefits: We offer an excellent compensation package and team-oriented work environment with growth opportunities. 

Some of our outstanding benefits include:

· Health & Dental Insurance

· Company paid Life Insurance

· 401(k)

· Paid Time Off benefits

· Product discounts

· Wellness programs