Senior Accountant

Engage Search Partners, LLC; New Jersey; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full suite of benefits

401(k) with match

Job summary

Engage Search Partners, LLC is seeking a career-minded Senior Accountant in Camden County, NJ, to grow into a Controller role within a few years. This is an on-site opportunity with a private-equity-backed growth-focused client, offering a full benefits suite and 401(k) with a match.

Responsibilities include standardizing monthly close, ensuring accuracy of all financial statements, and leading a transactional accounting team while liaising with CFO and senior leadership on results and variances.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years public accounting or corporate accounting experience.
• 1-2 years of experience performing the accounting close and financial reporting process for a for-profit organization.
• Willing to stretch beyond a narrow job description and take ownership of problems through completion.
• More interested in gaining meaningful experience and making an impact than simply maintaining a comfortable routine.
• Receptive to coaching, constructive feedback, and increasing levels of responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience streamlining the financial close processes, ensuring proper controls, and accurate reporting and compliance

Responsibilities

• Responsible for building standardization and consistency around the monthly financial close and financial reporting process.
• Ensure the accuracy of the income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows.
• The Senior Accountant will oversee the transactional accounting team ensuring that transactions are hitting the GL correctly for AP, AR and Payroll.
• Technical Accounting: staying up to date with recent changes to GAAP impacting revenue recognition (ASC 606), lease accounting (ASC 842), and exposure to joint ventures.
• Train and develop transactional accounting team
• Work closely with CFO and Corporate Senior Leadership during monthly and quarterly financial review meetings – analyzing financial results, cost drivers, monitoring inventory levels, and budget-to-actual variances.
• Provide senior management team with flash reports, KPIs, and other financial metrics as requested

Skills

Public accounting

Corporate accounting

Financial reporting

Monthly close

Job description

The Client:

Our client is one of the Philadelphia area's fastest-growing companies for the past 10-years. This is a privately held company which has tripled it's revenue in the past 5-years, and is in the middle of explosive growth. Global manufacturing business with a fantastic corporate culture and excellent benefits. The ownership is expanding their operations and will soon open up a new facility vertically integrating the manufacturing of a key raw material through a joint venture deal. This will greatly reduce their raw material costs and give our client more control over the quality of their materials.

Location:

Camden County, South Jersey - This position is onsite.

Position:

Senior Accountant

Compensation and Benefits:

Full Suite of Benefits, 401(K) with a Match

Summary:

The CFO is looking for a career-minded Accountant that wants to be Controller in a short period of time. This is not an opportunity for the candidate that wants to work-from-home and turn-off their computer at 5:00 p.m. We are looking for someone who wants to learn, who wants to be challenged, who wants to obtain the skills and experience needed to be a Controller for a $300-400M complex entity.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building standardization and consistency around the monthly financial close and financial reporting process.
• Ensure the accuracy of the income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows.
• The Senior Accountat will oversee the transactional accounting team ensuring that transactions are hitting the GL correctly for AP, AR and Payroll.
• Technical Accounting: staying up to date with recent changes to GAAP impacting revenue recognition (ASC 606), lease accounting (ASC 842), and exposure to joint ventures.
• Train and develop transactional accounting team
• Work closely with CFO and Corporate Senior Leadership during monthly and quarterly financial review meetings – analyzing financial results, cost drivers, monitoring inventory levels, and budget-to-actual variances.
• Provide senior management team with flash reports, KPIs, and other financial metrics as requested

Requirements:

• 2-4 years public accounting or corporate accounting experience
• 1-2 years of experience performing the accounting close and financial reporting process for a for-profit organization
• Willing to stretch beyond a narrow job description and take ownership of problems through completion.
• More interested in gaining meaningful experience and making an impact than simply maintaining a comfortable routine.
• Receptive to coaching, constructive feedback, and increasing levels of responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience streamlining the financial close processes, ensuring proper controls, and accurate reporting and compliance