Accounting Manager

Unison Solutions, Inc.; Dubuque (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Unison Solutions, Inc. is seeking an Accounting Manager to lead day-to-day accounting operations and support cash management, budgeting, and strategic planning. The role blends hands-on work with building scalable processes and a growing accounting team.

This growth-track position offers increasing responsibility with senior leadership exposure. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, analytical, and capable of owning the month-end close, internal controls, and financial reporting while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, management or related field is required.
• CPA and/or MBA designation is preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including ownership of the month-end close; manufacturing or project-based industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform and oversee daily accounting functions including billing, accounts receivable/payable, payroll processing, sales tax, and general ledger maintenance.
• Manage cash flow, banking activities, and liquidity planning including short-term cash forecasting.
• Lead month-end and year-end close processes to ensure GAAP compliant statements.
• Reconcile accounts and analyze variances for accuracy and integrity.
• Support ERP implementation and system conversion efforts, and provide leadership with financial metrics and KPIs.

Skills

Accounting experience

People management

Communication skills

Financial analysis

ERP implementation experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, management or related field

CPA and/or MBA designation preferred

Tools

MS Office

Accounting software

Job description

Company Description

Unison Solutions, Inc. is an employee-owned, U.S.-based manufacturing company that designs and produces biogas conditioning and upgrading systems. The company offers two biogas upgrading technologies, BioCNG membrane upgrading and Amine upgrading, to support a variety of renewable energy applications. All systems are manufactured, assembled, and factory-tested at its facility in Dubuque, Iowa, where a dedicated service team also provides equipment start-up, commissioning, training, and ongoing maintenance. Unison’s expertise includes hydrogen sulfide, siloxane, and CO2 removal, as well as compression, moisture removal, gas quality monitoring, gas analysis, and replacement media services for biogas systems.

Summary

The Accounting Manager leads and personally performs the day-to-day accounting operations of the organization, ensuring accurate financial reporting, effective internal controls, and compliance with applicable regulations. This role collaborates closely with leadership to support cash management, budgeting and strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, analytical, and comfortable rolling up their sleeves to do the work directly while building the processes and team the department needs to scale.

This position is envisioned to be a "growth-track" role. While the individual will initially focus on mastering the accounting and cash management functions, they will be given increasing responsibility over budgeting, forecasting, and departmental leadership as they mature into the position and the team grows. For the right candidate, this role offers a path to progressively senior leadership within the finance organization.

Essential Duties

Essential job duties for this position include the following items. Other duties must be performed as assigned or required.

• Perform and oversee daily accounting functions, including billing and accounts receivable, accounts payable, outsourced payroll processing, sales tax reporting (coordinating with external support) and general ledger maintenance.
• Manage cash flow, banking activities, and liquidity planning, including short-term cash forecasting.
• Lead and perform the month-end and year-end close process to ensure timely and accurate GAAP compliant financial statements.
• Reconcile accounts and analyze variances to ensure financial accuracy and integrity.
• Account for long-term projects using the percentage-of-completion (over-time) method, including job costing, work-in-progress schedules, and inventory valuation.
• Develop, document, and maintain accounting policies, procedures, and close checklists to support a growing team.
• Maintain and improve internal controls to protect company assets and ensure compliance with financial policies.
• Provide leadership with timely and relevant financial metrics, dashboards, and KPIs
• Act as the primary point of contact for external auditors and tax preparers.
• Support the implementation of a new ERP system in 2027
• Future: Responsibility for preparing and/or reviewing the timely completion of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Future: Partner with the CFO on the annual budgeting and quarterly reforecast process.
• Future: Monitor budget performance and provide clear, actionable insights to leadership.
• Conduct and/or support financial analyses to support business cases, cost savings initiatives, and operational improvements.
• Maintain a consistent and exceptional awareness towards safety
• Implement sound decisions, take responsibility for decisions, and evaluate the effects and effectiveness of the decisions
• Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve the "quote-to-cash" cycle.
• Uphold, support, and promote all company policies and procedures

Supervisory Responsibilities

Responsible for supervising the Accounting staff and expected to build and grow the department as the company grows. Until the team is further developed, this individual will carry a significant individual workload alongside supervisory duties.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, the individual in this position must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge, skills and ability required.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, management or related field required
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and/or MBA designation preferred
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including ownership of the month-end close; manufacturing or project-based industry experience strongly preferred; public accounting experience a plus
• Experience supervising and developing accounting staff
• ERP implementation or system conversion experience preferred
• Versatility and willingness to get in the details, problem solve and do the work as well as assess, lead and make decisions that impact accounting, finance and business decisions.
• Knowledge in the fields of management, engineering, production and automation, desired
• Strong management, presentation, and customer relationship skills
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite, and accounting/customer relations software
• Experience accounting for large projects using the percent complete method and managing the related accounting and activities for royalties, rep payments and service contracts