Accounting Manager

Wisconsin Steel & Tube Corporation; Wisconsin; On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Wisconsin Steel & Tube Corporation is seeking an Accounting Manager in Milwaukee, WI to lead day-to-day accounting operations, ensure timely close cycles, and maintain accurate financial reporting. You will partner with operations and executives to improve profitability, working capital, and overall business performance.

This exempt, salary-based role oversees general ledger integrity, internal controls, and accounting policy implementation, while guiding a team toward enhanced efficiency and

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes with timelines and reconciliations.
• Prepare or review monthly financial statements and supporting schedules for accuracy and timeliness.
• Maintain general ledger integrity and chart of accounts.
• Review journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, intercompany transactions, and balance-sheet support.
• Ensure transactions comply with GAAP and company policies; maintain close documentation.
• Oversee inventory accounting including valuation, cycle counts, and reserves; analyze variances with operations.
• Review profitability by product/customer/operating unit and communicate trends to management.
• Oversee fixed assets, depreciation, capital projects, disposals, and construction-in-progress.
• Supervise accounting staff; establish goals, provide feedback, and arrange training as needed.
• Partner with sales, operations, purchasing, HR, and executives to explain financial results and support business decisions.
• Promote accountability, accuracy, continuous improvement, and responsive internal service.

Job description

Description

Summary: The Accounting Manager is responsible for leading the company’s day-to-day accounting operations and maintaining the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial information. This position owns the monthly and annual close processes, financial statement preparation, account reconciliations, internal controls, and compliance activities. The Accounting Manager also develops and supports the accounting team, partners with operating leaders, and provides financial analysis and recommendations that improve profitability, working capital, and business performance.

Accounting and financial reporting

• Lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes, including establishing timelines, assigning responsibilities, reviewing reconciliations, and resolving reporting issues.
• Prepare or review monthly financial statements and supporting schedules to ensure completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timely delivery.
• Maintain the integrity of the general ledger and chart of accounts.
• Review journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, reserves, intercompany transactions, and balance-sheet support.
• Ensure accounting transactions are recorded consistently with company accounting policies and applicable generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
• Maintain supporting documentation and an effective financial close checklist.

Manufacturing and inventory accounting

• Oversee inventory accounting, including inventory valuation, costing methodologies, cycle-count and physical-inventory reconciliation, obsolete and slow-moving inventory reserves, and related internal controls.
• Partner with operations to analyze purchasing, material usage, scrap, freight, processing costs, margins, and other manufacturing or distribution variances.
• Review product, customer, branch, and operating-unit profitability and communicate significant trends or exceptions to management.
• Ensure appropriate accounting and control over fixed assets, capital projects, disposals, depreciation, and construction-in-progress balances.

Position Accounting Manager FLSA Classification Exempt (Salary)

Reports To Chief Financial Officer Location Milwaukee, WI

Department Finance Date Effective:

Internal controls and process improvement

• Develop, document, implement, and monitor accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Identify opportunities to improve accounting processes, reporting accuracy, close efficiency, system utilization, and segregation of duties.
• Evaluate recurring manual processes and recommend practical automation or standardization.
• Support accounting-system implementations, upgrades, integrations, and data-quality initiatives.
• Maintain adequate documentation and cross-training to promote continuity of critical accounting functions.

Treasury, working capital, and compliance

• Support daily cash management, cash forecasting, banking activity, borrowing-base reporting, and debt or covenant reporting, as assigned.
• Monitor accounts receivable, accounts payable, inventory, and other working-capital trends and escalte material concerns.
• Coordinate information required for income, sales and use, property, payroll, and other tax filings.
• Coordinate annual audits, reviews, benefit-plan audits, and other external examinations, including preparation of schedules and resolution of requested items.
• Maintain calendars and supporting documentation for recurring financial, tax, debt, and regulatory reporting requirements.

Leadership and business partnership

• Supervise, coach, and develop assigned accounting and finance employees, including establishing goals, providing ongoing feedback, conducting performance discussions, and identifying training needs.
• Establish clear responsibilities, deadlines, review procedures, and backup coverage throughout the accounting function.
• Partner with sales, operations, purchasing, human resources, and executive management to explain financial results, address accounting issues, and support business decisions.
• Communicate accounting requirements in a practical manner to non-financial employees.
• Promote a culture of accountability, accuracy, continuous improvement, and responsive internal service