The Role
The Accounting Manager leads the monthly close process, ensures accurate financial reporting, oversees accounting operations, and supports SEC filings for a public company.
Summary Generated by Built In
Who You Are: You are someone who is a hands-on, detail-oriented accountant with strong U.S. GAAP knowledge and experience supporting a public-company close. You are reliable, organized, and comfortable owning key areas of the monthly close, preparing reconciliations, and supporting SEC reporting requirements. You bring a mix of technical strength and practical problem-solving, with the ability to work cross-functionally across FP&A, Operations, and Supply Chain. You thrive in a fast-paced environment, communicate clearly, and proactively identify process and system improvements. You also take pride in accuracy, integrity, and accountability, and can guide junior team members while still being willing to roll up their sleeves.
The Task At Hand: The Accounting Manager reports to the Director of Accounting and plays a key role in leading the monthly close process, ensuring accuracy and compliance across financial reporting, technical accounting, and internal controls. This role is ideal for a hands-on, detail-oriented accounting professional who thrives in a fast-paced CPG environment and is excited to support the demands of a newly public company. The Accounting Manager will collaborate cross-functionally, support SEC reporting, and help build scalable processes as the organization grows.
In This Role, You Will:
- Manage financial close and reporting by leading key components of the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close, ensuring timely and accurate results, reconciliations, and supporting schedules
- Oversee day-to-day corporate, business unit, and international accounting, including GL activities, ensuring transactions are recorded accurately and in compliance with company policies and internal controls
- Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and components of consolidated financial statements
- Assist in the preparation of quarterly and annual SEC filings (10-Q, 10-K), including financial statements, footnotes, and MD&A support
- Support the annual audit by preparing schedules, responding to auditor requests, and ensuring appropriate documentation
- Contribute to cash flow analysis, working capital monitoring, and banking or covenant reporting as needed
- Support other activities and projects aligned with business priorities
- Support technical accounting and compliance through monitoring evolving accounting standards, evaluating their impact on the company, and helping prepare technical accounting memos (e.g., ASC 606, 842, 718, 350/360)
- Support equity accounting, stock-based compensation expense calculations, and related disclosures
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local reporting and tax requirements
- Maintain and strengthen internal controls in accordance with SOX requirements
- Assist in developing, updating, and enforcing accounting policies and procedures
- Partner with Supply Chain & Operations and drive support through working with the inventory accounting team on inventory valuation, cost updates, co-packer invoice review, and operational accounting
- Monitor and analyze COGS, production variances, freight, and other manufacturing-related costs
- Collaborate with FP&A, Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain to ensure data accuracy and support close-related activities
- Continuously improve systems & tools by identifying opportunities to streamline, automate, and improve accounting workflows and month-end processes
- Serve as an accounting lead for ERP oversight, including system enhancements, internal controls, and data integrity
- Drive adoption of close management tools (e.g., FloQast) and automation opportunities to accelerate close timelines
- Support system implementations and contribute to the development of dashboards and analytics tools (e.g., PowerBI, Looker) for internal reporting
- Provide team leadership through day-to-day guidance, coaching, and support to AP, AR, and GL staff
- Help build a high-integrity, high-accountability culture grounded in accuracy, compliance, and collaboration
- Support the development and growth of team members through clear expectations and constructive feedback
In This Role, You’ll Bring With You:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting required, while an MBA or MS is preferred
- CPA is required
- 6–8 years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 2 years in a supervisory role
- Experience in a publicly traded company, preferably within the CPG or manufacturing sector
- Strong technical accounting research skills and experience drafting technical memos
- Experience with inventory accounting, cost accounting, or manufacturing/CPG environments is highly preferred
- Public accounting experience (Big 4 or national firm) strongly preferred
- Experience with ERP required or highly preferred; experience with automation/close tools (FloQast, Blackline) is a plus
- Experience designing or improving accounting processes to support a scaled, efficient month-end close
- Experience leading close acceleration efforts and implementing scalable processes in a high-growth environment
- Experience with CPG or inventory accounting is a strong plus
- Demonstrated expertise in leadership and relationship-building
- Able to interact effectively with all levels of management across all functional areas
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, SEC reporting, and SOX compliance
- Solid knowledge of Microsoft Suite, Outlook, Slack, and other professional platforms
- Proven team leadership and development skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple priorities
- Organized and able to prioritize in accordance with company requirements and compliance standards
- Strong reasoning and persuasive skills
- Up to 10% travel required: Although this role is a remote work-from-home position, we “Farmers” do meet as a company and/or as a department a few times a year. Anticipate possible travel up to a few times each quarter
- Passionate about improving childhood nutrition for a healthier and happier planet
- Desire to contribute to a dynamic high-growth, purpose-driven work environment
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguity, deeply understand business needs, develop a cohesive strategy and make decisions requiring a high level of judgment
- Must reside in the United States to be considered for this position
- Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position
Compensation:
- Salaried, Full-Time, Exempt
- The anticipated salary range for this position is $110,000.00 to $140,000.00. The actual salary offer will carefully consider a few factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation, such as bonuses, stipends, equity, and role-specific perks.
Additional:
- Annual Bonus
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 401(k) with employer match
- Remote Life Stipend + Nourish and Nurture Allowance
- Paid Volunteer Time
- Paid Time Off to fulfill civic responsibilities including jury duty and voting in local, state, and national elections
- New Parents: Up to 18 weeks of paid Parental Leave, Baby Steps Back To Work, 3 months’ supply of farm-to-fridge baby food, and Milk Stork breast milk shipping service for those who travel
- Medical Insurance for the employee covered at 100% on select Kaiser and PPO plans, as well as offer additional plan options at a reduced cost to the employee
- Vision and Dental Insurance covered at 100% for the employee
- Employee Discounts and quarterly Farm to Fridge home deliveries
- Life insurance
- Flexible spending account (Medical & Dependent Care) and Health savings accounts for applicable plans
- Cell and Internet Stipend
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- And so much more!
Who We Are
Our Purpose: Drive systemic improvement in childhood nutrition for a healthier, happier, and more equitable world.
Our Business: At Once Upon a Farm, farm-fresh taste grows here. We're on a greater mission in providing organic, crave-worthy snacks and meals for children of all ages. Our recipes are crafted with only the best organic ingredients – whole fruits and veggies, cold-pressed (our pouches), or freshly frozen (our meals) to perfection– to support your growing kids at every stage. Each of our organic, non-GMO, non-dairy recipes contains no added sugar and are free from artificial flavors, colors, and preservatives – just simple, real, nutritious snacks your entire family will love.
We support and champion farmers who supply the highest-quality organic ingredients for our foods. We help parents keep their promise to provide the best nourishment for their children’s bodies and souls. We treat our consumers, customers, suppliers, investors, and all our valued employees with the same high level of dignity and respect that we expect from others. We will always fight for and support efforts to drive positive social change and food justice for the benefit of parents, kids, and families. Lastly, we foster an entrepreneurial and collaborative culture that values humility, honesty, passion, positive social impact, and fun.
Our Team: We’re all fully remote, which makes us a highly collaborative, dynamic, and supportive bunch. We share a singular mission to make the world a better place through the highest quality, most delicious, nourishing, and nutritious products made accessible to every home, from our farms to your fridge. And while we’re invested in our product, we’re equally invested in one another's success.
Once Upon a Farm is a purpose-driven brand made up of an inclusive group of individuals with diverse backgrounds, passions, and beliefs. We hire self-motivated, independent thinkers and those who are genuinely passionate about improving childhood nutrition for a healthier and happier planet. Bring your whole self to your work at Once Upon a Farm, a proud equal-opportunity employer. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use.
In an effort to help us remove unconscious bias from our resume review process, we ask that you please remove all identifying information from your resume (like profile photos) before you upload it. Once Upon a Farm is committed to cultivating an inclusive environment where a diverse group of people can and want to do their best work, and that starts with our hiring practices.
Once Upon a Farm, PBC, provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants in all company facilities without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, cast, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental and/or intellectual disability, age, military status or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer-related or HIV/AIDS-related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
This job description is a summary of duties; it is by no means an all-inclusive list but is merely a broad guide of expected duties.
You must reside in the United States to be considered for this position.
Top Skills
Blackline
Erp
Floqast
Looker
Microsoft Suite
Power BI
Sec Reporting
U.S. Gaap
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The Company
What We Do
Once Upon a Farm was built on a dream with co-founders John Foraker, Jennifer Garner, Cassandra Curtis and Ari Raz in crafting better, nutritious foods for little ones. Using the magic of high-pressure pasteurization (HPP) to lock in the nutrients and flavors of farm-fresh ingredients, they pioneered the first cold-pressed, organic fruit and veggie blends for babies.
Today, Once Upon a Farm shares an even better story and is on a greater mission in providing organic, crave-worthy, refrigerated snacks for children of all ages.
To learn more about Once Upon a Farm, visit www.onceuponafarmorganics.com.
