Senior Accountant
1 week ago
Company Overview:Alpha Baking Company is a leading food manufacturing company dedicated to delivering high-quality products to our customers, and we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Accountant to join our team.
Position Summary
The Senior Accountant reports to the Corporate Controller and is responsible for the ownership and execution of key accounting processes in relation to the monthly close. This position will entail the research, automation and streamlining of existing accounting processes to ensure accuracy and completeness of financial reporting.
Areas of focus include accounting process automation, developing best practices and accounting policies, implementing new accounting technologies where needed, developing robust SOPs for existing accounting processes and leading and mentoring more junior accounting staff members.
Responsibilities
- Refine and oversee existing accounting processes with the goal of utilizing automation to streamline and strengthen existing tasks.
- General ledger account reconciliations as a part of normal close procedures, both oversight and execution.
- Assists with all corporate audits.
- Develop SOPs for key accounting tasks and work with existing staff to learn and optimize recurring processes.
- In Coordination with Alphas Information Technology department, guide the design, implementation and testing of accounting technologies to achieve improvements in established goals.
- Performs other duties as required.
Requirements Specific Qualifications (items are required unless otherwise noted)
- A bachelors degree in Accounting is required, and an advanced degree in relevant disciplines or CPA is preferred.
- 5-10 years of related work experience
- A strong attention to detail, project management and organizational skills.
- Working knowledge of enterprise level accounting reporting systems.
- Proven track record of automating and taking ownership of accounting processes.
- Advanced excel skills (look up functions, sumif, sumifs, index match, choose, etc.), Microsoft Access and Power BI experience a huge plus.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills. An extroverted team player who projects an open and trustworthy communication style with all constituencies.
- Unquestioned integrity, ethics, and the values appropriate to a leader of the company.
- Well established interpersonal skills with a collaborative approach to integrate policies and procedures.
- Resourceful, innovative, and progressive. A self-starter who can take conceptual direction to achieve desired outcomes.
About us:
Alpha Baking Company, Inc., a national distributor of breads, rolls and buns, as well as sweet goods, was founded in 1979. Headquartered in Chicago, Alpha Baking has three production plants in Illinois and others in Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Alpha Bakings retail brands include S. Rosens, MaryAnn, Natural Ovens Bakery, Kreamo, and Golden Hearth, with additional product sold under private label agreements and the Alpha Baking foodservice brand. Our broad array of products can be found in national restaurant chains, quick service restaurants, schools, institutions, major league sports franchises, national grocery chains and independent grocery stores.
EEO statement:
We are an equal opportunity employer with policies prohibiting unlawful discrimination on the basis of any protected classification under applicable local, state and/or federal laws which include race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or veteran status, Alpha Baking Company, Inc. is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.
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