Senior Plant Accountant: Impactful, Hands-On Finance

Pmg Sm; Madison (NC); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Pavement Maintenance Group in Madison, NC is seeking a Senior Plant Accountant to connect accounting with inventory, production, purchasing, and plant activity. The role offers hands-on involvement in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

You will own monthly close, cost accounting, and financial reporting while partnering with operations leadership to influence decisions on pricing, margins, and budgets.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent experience.
• Progressive accounting experience with strong general-ledger, journal-entry, reconciliations, and financial statements.
• Manufacturing, inventory, cost accounting, or related physical-product experience preferred.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort with ERP and reporting systems.
• Practical investigative mindset with questions when numbers don’t add up.
• Strong communication, accuracy, follow-through, and deadline management.
• Curious, collaborative, low-ego approach and willingness to help where needed.
• Willingness to work onsite and participate in physical inventory activities.

Responsibilities

• Managing monthly financial close, journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, reporting, and variance explanations.
• Supporting accounts payable, accounts receivable, and cash reconciliations.
• Maintaining accurate inventory and manufacturing costs.
• Participating in physical inventories and cycle counts.
• Investigating inventory, material, usage, scrap, production, and purchasing variances.
• Maintaining fixed assets and other financial records.
• Assisting with pricing, margin analysis, budgets, forecasts, and operational reporting.
• Partnering with production, purchasing, sales, payroll, and plant leadership.
• Reviewing timecards and coordinating accurate regional payroll submissions.
• Support audits, compliance, internal controls, and process improvements.
• Looking beyond the spreadsheet to solve problems at their operational source.

Skills

Excel skills

ERP systems

Communication

Analytical mindset

Onsite work

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Job description

Pavement Maintenance Group in Madison, NC is seeking a Senior Plant Accountant to connect accounting with inventory, production, purchasing, and plant activity. The role offers hands-on involvement in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

You will own monthly close, cost accounting, and financial reporting while partnering with operations leadership to influence decisions on pricing, margins, and budgets.