Accountant (Hybrid)

• Understand stakeholder deliverables, financial flows, operational drivers, and cross-functional handoffs.

• Prepare journal entries and reconcile assigned balance sheet accounts, including travel and purchase cards, prepaid expenses, accounts receivable, and intercompany transactions, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Support month-end and year-end close processes by ensuring accurate, timely reporting and maintaining current documentation for accounting policies and procedures.

• Support Cross Training across the General Accounting Team.

• Partner with Cashdesk on any Cash Related Reconciliations.

• Support biannual D365 Update Testing.

• Partner with Technical Accounting on complex or emerging matters.
• Support internal and external audits through timely documentation, analysis, and issue resolution.

• Collaborate with IT and operations to automate routine tasks.

• Identify and implement efficiencies in accounting processes.

• Share learning, maintain current process documentation, learn new tools and processes, and contribute constructively during process redesign and system implementation.

• Use reporting and visualization tools, maintain data integrity and standard definitions, and identify repeatable work suitable for automation or AI-enabled improvement.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree OR equivalent experience.

Experience

• 4-5 Years of relevant experience.
• Experience supporting general accounting activities, such as journal entries, account reconciliations, financial close, or financial reporting.
• Experience following internal controls and maintaining clear, accurate process documentation.
• Experience supporting audit requests or providing documentation and analysis for internal or external review.
• Experience in a food, ingredients, or manufacturing environment is beneficial but not required.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Working knowledge of GAAP and foundational financial accounting principles.
• Working proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, lookups, and data analysis.
• Ability to learn and effectively use Microsoft D365 or other enterprise resource planning systems; familiarity with SAP, Oracle, or Great Plains is beneficial.
• Ability to apply GAAP, accounting policies, and internal controls to routine transactions and recognize when issues require escalation.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate variances, identify root causes, and recommend practical solutions.
• Ability to organize work, manage competing priorities, and meet recurring close and reporting deadlines with accuracy.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain accounting information and resolve questions with finance and business partners.
• Ability to collaborate across functions, share knowledge, and support consistent accounting processes and team deliverables.
• Ability to maintain accurate documentation, protect data integrity, and identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, or automate routine work.

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Travel

~10% travel required

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