Accounting Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Accounting Manager

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Location: On Site - West Palm Beach, Florida

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About The Opportunity:

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Join a growing manufacturing business focused on producing high-quality products through reliable operations, strong quality standards, and continuous process improvement. As Accounting Manager, you will lead core accounting operations and play a key role in strengthening financial controls, inventory and cost accounting, and reporting.

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Responsibilities:

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• Lead and develop the accounting team, setting clear priorities, review standards, and coverage for essential processes.
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• Own the monthly, quarterly, and year-end close, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, fixed assets, payroll entries, and financial reporting.
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• Oversee inventory and manufacturing cost accounting, including standard costs, bills of material, work in process, overhead absorption, and production variances.
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• Manage billing, accounts receivable, credit and collections, accounts payable, cash applications, and vendor payment processes.
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• Support the Dynamics 365 Business Central implementation through finance data validation, configuration input, and post-launch stabilization.
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• Maintain effective accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls; ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP and support audit and tax requests.
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• Prepare management reporting and variance analysis, and support budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow planning, and special projects.
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• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Customer Service, and Sales to resolve transaction issues and improve financial processes.
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Must-Have Skills:

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• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, with 6+ years of progressive accounting experience.
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• At least 1 year of supervisory or team-lead experience and demonstrated ownership of the monthly close.
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• Manufacturing, contract manufacturing, consumer products, or other inventory-intensive industry experience.
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• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, general ledger accounting, financial statements, internal controls, and audit support.
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• Hands-on inventory and manufacturing cost accounting experience, including standard costing, bills of material, work in process, and variance analysis.
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• Experience leading or supporting an ERP implementation, system conversion, or finance process transformation.
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• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, SUMIFS, reconciliations, and analysis of large data sets.
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• Excellent communication, leadership, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with strong attention to detail and sound judgment.
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Nice-to-Have Skills:

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• CPA, CMA, or MBA.
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• Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central experience.
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• QuickBooks experience and familiarity reconciling legacy-system data to a new ERP.
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• Power Query or Power BI experience.
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• Experience with cash-flow planning, lender reporting, tax filings, and external audit coordination.
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