Senior Accountant

onsite. 37.5 hour work week!

We are seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to join our team! This is a corporate level position reporting to the organization’s Controller.
The Senior Accountant is responsible for overseeing full-cycle accounting operations, ensuring the integrity of financial data, and driving the monthly financial close process. This role handles complex journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, financial statement preparation, and variance analyses. The Senior Accountant acts as a critical liaison between operational departments and corporate finance, providing analytical insights that support strategic business decisions. The Senior Accountant exhibits strong technical accounting acumen, exceptional attention to detail, and a deep commitment to maintaining internal controls in accordance with compliance standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Close Leadership: Lead the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes for assigned companies, ensuring all journal entries and financial reports are executed accurately and on schedule.
• General Ledger & Reconciliations: Maintain the general ledger and perform complex balance sheet account reconciliations, identifying and resolving discrepancies proactively.
• Financial Reporting & Analysis: Prepare monthly P&L, balance sheet, and key performance metrics, accompanied by detailed variance analysis against budgets and historical trends.
• Budgeting & Forecasting: Actively participate in the annual corporate budget process and systematically update financial forecasts periodically to reflect shifting operational trends.
• Accrual Tracking: Manage comprehensive Purchase Order (PO) accrual tracking at month-end to ensure all unbilled goods and services are recognized in correct accounting period.
• Cost Accounting & Variance Analysis: Track and calculate complex production metrics including raw materials, fuel consumption, asset utilization and overall cost per cubic year/ton.
• Inventory Control: Partner with plant teams to reconcile physical-to-book counts for bulk raw materials using volumetric calculations.
• Fixed Asset Tracking: Maintain depreciation schedules for specialized heavy machinery, ready-mix transit mixers, concrete pumps, and production facilities.
• Internal Controls & Compliance: Ensure strict adherence to U.S. GAAP/IFRS principles and internal control frameworks to protect corporate assets and mitigate risk.
• Audit Facilitation: Serve as a primary point of contact for external auditors, preparing comprehensive audit workpapers and supporting schedules.
• Operational Efficiency: Identify opportunities to automate workflows, lead efforts in process streamlining to reduce month-end close cycle times and enhance accounting software efficiencies.

• Analytical Problem Solving: Strong analytical judgment in evaluating data patterns to identify discrepancies, variances and budgeting trends.
• Attention to Detail: Exceptional attention to detail in financial reporting and complex data tracking.
• Effective Communication: Ability to effectively translate complex financial concepts and variance analyses to non-financial plant operations, clearly convey ideas, listen actively and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
• Process Optimization: Exhibit a continuous improvement mindset, actively seeking out automated workflows, technology integrations, and lean procedures to minimize manual errors.
• Time Management: Prioritize tasks effectively to navigate high volume periods such as month end closings and fiscal year-end financial deadlines.
• Change Management: Ability to lead or assist in the creation of change management plans and road maps to support new processes, systems, or cultural shifts.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related business field.

• Experience: 5+ years of accounting experience, ideally in the construction or manufacturing industry
• Software Proficiency: Mastery of Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, pivot tables) and construction ERP software – Sage, Command Alkon is a plus.
• Understanding of GAAP, Accrual and Work-in-Progress (WIP) accounting and revenue recognition.
• Analytical Problem Solving: Strong analytical judgment in evaluating data patterns to identify discrepancies, variances and budgeting trends.
• Attention to Detail: Exceptional attention to detail in financial reporting and complex data tracking.
• Effective Communication: Ability to effectively translate complex financial concepts and variance analyses to non-financial plant operations, clearly convey ideas, listen actively and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
• Process Optimization: Exhibit a continuous improvement mindset, actively seeking out automated workflows, technology integrations, and lean procedures to minimize manual errors.
• Time Management: Prioritize tasks effectively to navigate high volume periods such as month end closings and fiscal year-end financial deadlines.
• Change Management: Ability to lead or assist in the creation of change management plans and road maps to support new processes, systems, or cultural shifts.