Plant Accountant

Summary : The Senior Accountant provides ownership of general ledger integrity and key close activities to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting. This role partners cross-functionally to strengthen financial controls, oversee key finance operations (including corporate card administration and expense reporting governance), and provide increased tax oversight across sales/use tax, income tax, and property tax compliance. The position leads complex journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and analyses supporting Balance Sheet and P&L reporting; identifies and resolves accounting and compliance issues; Owns general ledger accuracy by reviewing daily transactions, resolving posting issues, and ensuring completeness and adherence to accounting policies. Leads bank activity oversight, including daily cash posting/reconciliation and timely completion and review of monthly bank reconciliations with appropriate supporting documentation. Leads assigned components of the monthly/quarterly/annual close, including preparation and review of complex journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations; performs variance analysis and drives issue resolution. Manages intercompany accounting activities for assigned entities, including reconciliation, dispute resolution, and timely communication with intercompany affiliates to meet close timelines. Oversees fixed asset accounting for assigned locations, coordinating capitalization, disposals, and transfers; posts depreciation, reviews supporting detail, and completes monthly reconciliations to ensure policy compliance. Provides analysis and inputs to support weekly cash flow and liquidity reporting; identifies trends and risks and partners with Finance stakeholders on mitigation actions. Supports budgeting and forecasting by ensuring accurate cost center/internal order governance, validating mappings in the general ledger, and partnering on reporting requirements and management insights. Prepares and reviews audit schedules and workpapers; serves as a primary contact for assigned areas during quarterly reviews and annual audits; Leads process improvement initiatives (automation, standard work, and close optimization), mentors junior staff, and performs special projects and analyses as assigned. Provides higher-level ownership of corporate credit card administration, including policy governance, cardholder onboarding/offboarding, spending limit and merchant category controls, compliance monitoring, and issue resolution in partnership with AP/Treasury. Oversees Concur Expense Reporting processes and controls, including workflow configuration governance, user guidance/training, audit rules/exception monitoring, and timely escalation/resolution of compliance concerns. Leads and/or oversees tax compliance activities, including sales and use tax preparation/support, property tax filings, and coordination of income tax deliverables with internal/external providers; ensures accurate data, supporting documentation, and on-time submissions. Applies current AI tools and automation techniques to improve close, reconciliation, expense, and tax processes; S. and international stakeholders; ability to explain accounting impacts to non-accounting partners ability to research accounting matters, identify root causes, and recommend/implement solutions to improve reporting accuracy ERP experience (SAP preferred) and ability to support process improvements, controls, and reporting enhancements Strong tax knowledge with ability to oversee and/or support compliance activities across sales/use tax, income tax, and property tax; Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, data validation) required; ability to work efficiently with large data sets; comfort leveraging automation and AI-enabled tools to streamline reporting, reconciliations, and documentation Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field from an accredited college or university (required) ~6+ years of progressive accounting experience (manufacturing environment preferred), including month-end close, reconciliations, audit support ~ Demonstrated experience supporting or overseeing tax compliance activities (sales/use tax, property tax, and/or income tax deliverables) ~ CPA/CMA preferred