Accounting Manager

Alta Medical Specialties, LLC; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Alta Medical Specialties is seeking an Accounting Manager to ensure accurate, timely books including month-end close, reconciliations, and financial reporting. This hands-on role offers growth into broader responsibilities while partnering with operations and leadership in a fast-paced environment.

You will own the close, participate in year-end activities, and help maintain internal controls, with opportunities to lead an accounting team in the future. On-site in Salt Lake City, UT.

Qualifications

• This role requires 3–5 years of corporate accounting experience with ownership of significant parts of the close.
• Strong working knowledge of GAAP and accrual accounting is required.
• Experience with inventory accounting is strongly preferred.
• Hands-on NetSuite experience as primary GL system (journal entries, reconciliations, reports).

Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly close with journal entries, accruals, and close calendar ownership.
• Own reconciliations for cash, receivables, payables, inventory, and intercompany balances.
• Prepare monthly financial statements and analysis for leadership and partners.
• Partner with Operations on inventory valuation, COGS, and ledger reconciliation.
• Serve as NetSuite SME for all accounting functions.
• Support year-end close and compliance tasks with CPA and lenders as needed.
• Maintain and improve accounting processes and internal controls.
• Mentor and potentially build an accounting team over time.

Skills

Excel proficiency

GAAP knowledge

Financial analysis

Reconciliations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

NetSuite

Excel

Job description

The Accounting Manager is responsible for the accuracy and timeliness of the company's books, including the month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, and financial reporting. This is a hands-on role with broad ownership and room to grow into additional responsibilities over time.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Month-End Close: Lead the monthly close, including journal entries, accruals, and ownership of the close checklist and calendar, delivering accurate results on a consistent timeline.
• Balance Sheet Integrity: Own reconciliations for cash, receivables, payables, inventory, prepaid and accrued accounts, and intercompany balances; investigate and resolve variances.
• Financial Reporting: Prepare monthly financial statements and supporting analysis for leadership and the partners, with clear explanations of what moved and why.
• Inventory & Cost Accounting: Partner with Operations on inventory valuation, cost of goods sold, and the reconciliation of physical and cycle counts to the general ledger.
• NetSuite Ownership: Acts as the Subject Matter Expert SME for all Accounting functions in NetSuite
• Year-End & Compliance: Support year-end and recurring compliance work, including coordination with the outside CPA firm, partner capital and distribution tracking, sales and use tax, 1099s, and lender or audit requests.
• Controls & Process Improvement: Own and maintain the existing documented accounting processes, support process improvements, and maintain internal controls.
• Growing Leadership: Review and coach the work of others who touch accounting, with the opportunity to build and lead an accounting team over time.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3-5 years of corporate (industry) accounting experience, including time as a Senior Accountant or equivalent with ownership of significant parts of the close.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• NetSuite experience is required — hands-on use as a primary general ledger system, including journal entries, reconciliations, saved searches, and financial reports.
• Solid working knowledge of GAAP and accrual accounting.
• Experience with inventory accounting is strongly preferred.
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel proficiency.

PREFERRED

• CPA, or progress toward licensure.
• Experience in distribution, wholesale, or medical/pharmaceutical supply.
• Multi-entity accounting and intercompany reconciliation experience.
• Familiarity with partnership/LLC accounting, including capital accounts and distributions.
• Exposure to Power BI or similar reporting tools.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• On-site, Salt Lake City metro area.
• This role works closely with Operations, Sales, and leadership, with heavier workload expected around month-end close and year-end.

ABOUT ALTA MEDICAL SPECIALTIES

Alta Medical Specialties is a B2B medical supplies distributor headquartered in Salt Lake City, serving hospitals and pharmacies across nine states. We are a growing, hands-on team where decisions get made quickly and the people making them see the results directly.