Senior Accountant

Job description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyze, reconcile, and prepare month end closing entries, balance sheets, profit, and loss statements, consolidated financial statements, intercompany confirmations, and other formal financial reports.

• Complete monthly financial and/or financial reporting narratives, schedules, and budgets.

• Support monthly financial reporting of actual metrics and identify risks & opportunities, and research, understand and describe monthly variances.

• Prepare and analyze expenses/spend, support of labor, overhead, capital, headcount, sales, and intercompany transactions, monitor actual versus budget variances monthly.

• Assist with weekly cash forecasting, including 13-week cash forecasts and partner with FP&A as needed in relation to cash forecasting activity.

• Consolidate cash and calculate daily global liquidity

• Perform advanced asset and liability account reconciliation for areas of responsibility.

• Track and Reconcile CIP projects

• Ensure that all bank activities are accounted for and posted accurately and timely.

• Maintain and report capital expenditures (Property, Plant & Equipment) which includes all company leases (Financing and Operational Leases) to support financial reporting, management reporting, risk management, and government reporting.

• Calculate borrowing base weekly/monthly and report to our ABL lender.

• Work with our foreign entities and report and consolidate trial balances into D365.

• Assist, collect and provide any external or internal audit requirements including support of internal control monitoring and evaluations.

• Implement improvements/automation for accounting and/or financial models and processes.

• Maintain appropriate internal controls and internal control framework for areas of responsibility.

• Support the disbursement process and AP team as needed.

• Perform special projects and reporting to support the business as required.

Experience, Skills & Education

• Thorough knowledge of U.S. General Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP), and/or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

• Thorough knowledge of accounting procedures and concepts, for example, general ledger, balance sheets, and profit and loss statements.

• Working knowledge of accounting systems, for example, MS Dynamics 365.

• Working knowledge of database concepts including relational database principles.

• Thorough knowledge of process improvement development.

• 4 (+) years of accounting or financial analyst experience.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, or closely related field.

• CPA or MBA preferred.

• Manufacturing experience a plus.

Additional Qualities Necessary

• Working knowledge of K&N accounting policies.

• Less than 10% travel.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills necessary to communicate with all organizational levels.

• Interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships

• Presentation skills necessary for informal settings, for example, department management and local leadership.