Accountant

Key Responsibilities

Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close process and ensure timely and accurate financial reporting.
• Maintain the integrity of the general ledger and supporting schedules.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Ensure appropriate revenue recognition, inventory accounting, AP/AR accounting, and expense classification.
• Maintain effective internal controls and ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies and audit requirements.
• Support internal and external audits and other compliance activities.

Cost Accounting & Inventory

• Own the cost accounting process, including inventory valuation, product costing, manufacturing variances, and COGS analysis.
• Lead the implementation and ongoing maintenance of standard costing.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to maintain accurate BOMs and item cost information, including material, labor, variable overhead, and fixed overhead.
• Establish and maintain appropriate labor and overhead rates.
• Analyze purchase price, material usage, labor, overhead, and other manufacturing cost variances.
• Lead inventory analysis, cycle-count controls, physical inventory activities, excess and obsolete inventory reviews, and inventory reduction initiatives.
• Analyze gross margin by product, product family, customer, and other relevant business dimensions.
• Identify opportunities to improve product margins and reduce manufacturing costs.

Forecasting & Financial Analysis

• Lead the monthly forecasting process in partnership with the General Manager and functional leaders.
• Develop detailed, assumption-based forecasts for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, EBIT, working capital, and other key financial metrics.
• Maintain supporting forecast models with clear calculations and documented business assumptions.
• Analyze actual results versus budget, forecast, and prior year and clearly explain the underlying business drivers.
• Support General Manager in identifing and quantifing risks and opportunities to the forecast.
• Prepare financial analysis and recommendations to support management decisions.
• Lead the annual budgeting and strategic planning processes.

Business Partnership

• Serve as the primary finance partner to the General Manager.
• Translate financial results into meaningful business insights.
• Partner with Sales, Operations, Purchasing, Engineering, and other functions to understand business performance and improve profitability.
• Support pricing, product profitability, make/buy, inventory, capital investment, and other business decisions.
• Proactively identify financial and operational issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Develop and monitor meaningful KPIs for management.

ERP Systems & Process Improvement

• Develop strong functional knowledge of Sage Intacct and the business processes that feed the financial system.
• Take ownership of financial master-data integrity, including items, GL groups, product lines, projects, departments, locations, customers, vendors, and other reporting dimensions.
• Improve the use of Sage Intacct for accounting, inventory, purchasing, order entry, reporting, and financial analysis.
• Develop and improve management reports, including sales analysis, backlog/margin reporting, inventory valuation, trial balance/dimensional reporting, and received/shipped-not-invoiced reporting.
• Improve purchasing and AP controls, including PO approval and non-PO invoice approval processes.
• Identify manual processes that can be standardized, automated, or eliminated.
• Partner with IT, Sage support, and external consultants on ERP enhancements while maintaining appropriate business ownership and controls.
• Support future ERP initiatives and potential system migrations or integrations.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
• Sage Intacct experience preferred.
• Strong technical accounting and financial reporting knowledge.
• Strong manufacturing cost accounting experience.
• Experience with inventory accounting, standard costing, BOMs, labor and overhead rates, and manufacturing variance analysis.
• Experience leading month-end close and balance sheet reconciliation processes.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and variance-analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to explain financial results and underlying business drivers to non-financial leaders.
• Strong ERP knowledge and ability to understand transactions from operational activity through financial reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Strong communication, organization, follow-through, and time-management skills.