Senior Accountant

2 months ago

Oak Creek, United States Ascendo Full time
Senior Accounting Position

Pay: $36 to $42 an hour depending on experience.

Manufacturing Company - North Chicago

Summary

Working under the supervision of the Finance & Administration Manager, the Accountant will plan, organize and execute professional-level accounting work in connection with the maintenance of financial records related to Company activities. Is responsible for performing a wide variety of functions involved in the maintenance of financial records and other Business Services; participate in the development, modification and maintenance of the company's accounting software; assist in the preparation of related financial records and reports; perform complex analytical studies, reconciliations, produce special reports; and perform related work as required. The accountant ensures accounting system compliance with generally accepted accounting principles for auditing purposes; ensures local, State, and Federal program compliance with all agency policies and regulations; is either directly or indirectly involved in the financial aspects of accounting, budget, payroll, purchasing, prepares for and assists with annual audits; resolves budget and accounting analysis & discrepancies; audits related work of other company personnel. Is actively involved in the design and management of the company's business insurance and helping prepare the companies taxes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Responsible for helping with the overall financial management and day-to-day bookkeeping of the company.
• Financial Strategy: Responsible for helping review company financial strategy (including the use of profits and reserves) and making recommendations to Senior Management when appropriate.
• Cost Accounting: Monitoring Cost Variances, implementing costing standards for materials and labor, tracking and adjusting overhead costs whenever necessary, and reconciling costs of major projects. • Sales & Use Taxes on invoicing and filing with states and potentially countries. • Analysis: Prepare and Analyze Budgets, Sales & Use Taxes, Labor, Inventory, Purchases, Overhead, Variance, Cash Flow, and Cash Management.
• Financial Accounting: Responsible for helping produce income and balance statements and analyzing month and year-end financial account information; liaising with the company's CPA to help complete the company's annual tax return. • Management Accounting: Responsible for helping produce annual budgets and three-year rolling estimates, quarterly management accounts, job costing reports, overhead review, and ad-hoc reports as required.
• Accounting Systems: Responsible for reviewing, updating and implementing existing internal accounting systems and introducing new systems and controls where appropriate. • Accounting Software: Responsible for maintaining computerized accounting software, ensuring the provision of adequate third-party support for the software and upgrading the software where appropriate. Development and outline of Standard Operating Procedures.
• Expenditure Control: Responsible for helping monitor all company expenditure and where appropriate making recommendations to individuals and teams responsible for budgets. • General Ledger: Responsible for helping maintain the General Ledger; setting up new accounts and cost centers when required; ensuring reconciliation of control accounts; ensuring correct allocation of expenditure to cost centers.
• Purchase Ledger: Responsible for accurate processing of all supplier invoices and for their regular payment. • Sales Ledger: Responsible for helping process sales invoices and purchase orders related to jobs sold by company's salesman. Includes verifying all information is correct to ensure the job is posted correctly.
• Banking: Responsible for helping manage of all company bank accounts including company credit cards; ensuring adequate funds are available to meet expenditure requirements; control bank fees, process foreign currency transactions and liaising with bank representatives on a regular basis with the company's bankers.
• Multi-Company Reconciliation: Responsible for helping reconcile multi company activities related to business.; involves entering data information into accounting software and reconciling relevant accounts. • Business Planning Group: Involvement in the Business Planning Group and Seminars when necessary which leads to the implementation of the current business plan and makes proposals concerning future business strategy.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Self-motivated, energetic, dependable, honest, and thorough. A versatile, self-starter with a positive attitude, who is cautiously assertive.
• Ability to modulate with a dynamic workload: From heavy multi-tasking during peak workloads -to very focused, detail-oriented work during critical projects. • Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills are required. • Team attitude; eager to cooperate with others with exceptional interpersonal communication skills.
• Knowledge of MRP/ERP systems.

Education and/or Experience
•Bachelor's degree Accounting, Finance or Business Administration along with 3+ years' of increasingly responsible accounting experience with an emphasis on cost accounting and budgeting.

Ascendo is a certified minority owned staffing firm, and we welcome and celebrate diversity. Ascendo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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