Accounting Manager (61366)

Position Summary:

HAC, Inc is an employee-owned company seeking a highly self-motivated employee to assist in managing the accounting department. The accounting manager’s position will be responsible for assisting with maintaining the general ledger, accounting reconciliations, and assisting in preparing financial statements and analysis. Candidates should possess critical thinking skills and high attention to detail, as well as the ability to recognize, evaluate, and resolve problems effectively individually and as a team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting with maintaining general ledger activities. This includes, but not limited to entering, reviewing, or supervising daily and weekly preparation of entries, financial period close entries and assisting with any planning or assigning ledger entries and reconciliations as required.
• Other responsibilities include research and internal communications of accounts payable and accounts receivable questions.
• Manage and execute end of period financial close and reconciliation processes. Complete, review and ensure that all assigned account reconciliations are completed accurately and timely. This includes banking reconciliations, accounts payable and accounts receivable reconciliations.
• Collaborates with the HR department and accounting/treasury analyst to ensure the weekly and bi-weekly payroll is completed, journalized, and reconciled.
• Calculate, accrue, and reconcile payments owed to vendors and landlords based on contractual agreements. Calculate, accrue, and reconcile payments owed to the company, often in the form of rebates, based on contractual agreements.
• Accrue and allocate expenses as necessary.
• Calculate various inventories as required.
• Manage all fixed assets and CIP daily operational, accounting, and financial reporting activities for the company. Knowledge of GAAP capital expenditure preferred. Fixed Asset ledgers are maintained in accounting and fixed asset system software, which need to be reconciled each period close. Collaboration with all internal departments to prepare and journalize fixed asset spending.
• Assist the Controller and CFO with budgeting requests, financial analysis, ad hoc reporting, and special projects as needed. Also coordinates with outside auditors and provides needed information for the annual external audit.
• Some supervisory duties include planning, assigning and appraising performance for employees. Aid in employee’s professional development and training.
• Additional job responsibilities include the ability to identify areas to enhance proficiency. HAC is transferring to a focus on globalization of processes and shifting from manual to automated, where possible, including all departments. Also, present recommendations to management on short- and long-term enhanced control and financial activities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• 3-5 years of related experience required.
• Fixed Asset experience preferred.
• Good organizational, analytical, and mathematical skills are essential to fulfill job requirements.
• Strong oral and written communication skills are mandatory, as well as the ability to work well with all levels of management.
• Technical literacy preferred, particularly in Excel. The ability to understand and create complex excel formulas and possibly macros is necessary.
• CPA preferred.

Work environment/physical demands:

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Ability to sit for long periods of time.
• Lifting of items 10 – 25 lbs.
• This position requires no travel.