Accounting Director

Description

About Twin City Foods, Inc

Twin City Foods is a leading Frozen Vegetable Producer committed to delivering high-quality, nutritious, and sustainably sourced frozen vegetables to consumers worldwide. With a focus on innovation, quality assurance, and environmental responsibility, we have established ourselves as a key player in the frozen food industry.


Twin City Foods is a family-owned business navigating a period of significant operational and financial transformation. The company is actively investing in systems modernization - including Planful and AP/AR automation - and strengthening its financial infrastructure to support the next phase of growth. The Director of Accounting is the closest finance partner to the CFO and plays a central role in that effort.

What We Are Looking For:

The Accounting Director is the controllership leader for Twin City Foods. This role carries full accountability for the accounting function - from daily cash operations and the monthly close through cost accounting, external compliance, and other selling P&L analytics. The Director sets direction, reviews and approves the work, and maintains controls; the Controller (with the full accounting operations team) and Senior Cost Accountant own day-to-day execution.

This is a working leadership role with direct CFO access: senior enough to represent the accounting function to lenders, auditors, and operational leadership without an intermediary, and close enough to the details to catch problems before they compound. The Director is expected to engage directly and confidently across all levels of the organization.

Beyond traditional controllership, the Director owns the analytical P&L framework for other selling revenue and costs - outbound freight, customer-billed storage, brokerage, and cash discounts. These categories have historically operated as a loss, and the Director is expected to build the models, track the trends, surface the drivers, and work with Sales and Operations leadership to move them toward break-even and beyond.

The role is being created as a dedicated controllership leadership position within a finance team that is actively modernizing its systems, processes, and analytical capabilities. TCF is building toward a more defined management system - one with clear KPIs, structured accountability, and continuous improvement as an operating discipline - and this Director is expected to be a driver of that culture within Finance.


The right candidate will treat the current state as an opportunity to build, not a baseline to manage. Candidate will be energized by the challenge of building a more capable, more analytical, and more proactive accounting function - and will see the complexity and pace as an opportunity. Candidates who are frustrated by bureaucracy, manual processes, and underutilized data should apply.

Work Location: On-siteat our Stanwood or Pasco Location.

Benefits of an Accounting Director

• Competitive Wages, Range $160,000-$190,000 per year, depending on experience.

• Exempt Position

• Excellent Benefit Package

o Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance.

o Flexible Spending Account

o Life, AD&D and LTD Insurance.

o Paid Holidays-10 paid holidays per year.

o Paid Time Off- 20 days per year, prorated based on month hired.

o 401K Retirement Plan.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Financial Close & Reporting

• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual close - set the calendar, direct the team, review the work, and ensure the final package is accurate and on time.

• Deliver variance explanations and insights to the CFO that go beyond the numbers - clear on what changed, why, and what it means operationally.

• Maintain GL integrity, chart of accounts discipline, and inter-period consistency.

• Ensure all accounting outputs meet GAAP, FASB, lender covenants, and internal reporting standards.

2. Banking, Cash & Borrowing Base

• Manage the day-to-day banking relationship with lender - account structure, authorization controls, and weekly Borrowing Base Certificate process.

• Review and sign the weekly BBC certificate; ensure the Controller maintains a reliable, auditable build process.

• Develop weekly 13-week cash flow projection.

• Maintain visibility into daily cash positioning; surface liquidity risks to the CFO proactively.

• Oversee AP payment runs, vendor payment terms, and disbursement controls; evaluate automation opportunities.

3. Cost Accounting & Manufacturing Finance

• Direct costing policy - standard cost setup, overhead allocation methodology, and seasonal absorption approach - in partnership with Operations.

• Review manufacturing variance reports from the Sr. Cost Accountant; ensure variances are explained operationally, not just calculated.

• Oversee inventory valuation, physical inventory, and cycle count programs; coordinate with Operations on yield and usage analysis.

• Partner with FP&A team on manufacturing and product cost inputs to forecasting and pricing support.

4. Other Selling P&L - Analytics & Business Interface

This is a distinctive element of the Director's scope. Other selling categories - outbound freight, customer-billed storage, brokerage fees, and cash discounts - have historically operated at a net loss to the company. The Director owns the financial stewardship of these categories with a mandate to move them toward break-even.

• Build and maintain the analytical framework for other selling revenue and costs: actuals vs. billed, trend analysis, category-level P&L, and driver identification.

• Partner with Sales and Operations leadership to understand billing practices, contract terms, and recovery rates; translate findings into actionable improvement opportunities.

• Work with FP&A to ensure other selling is accurately reflected in forecasts and monthly reporting.

• Track progress against break-even targets; present findings and recommendations to CFO and commercial leadership on a regular cadence.

• Work with Controller and AR Manager to flag structural issues - underpriced freight rates, unbilled storage, broker contract terms, high cash discount exposure - and support the business in addressing them.

5. Audit, Tax Interface & Compliance

• Serve as primary coordinator for the external audit - manage the PBC calendar, direct audit prep, and serve as the CPA firm's main finance contact.

• Review the annual tax return with external CPA; identify questions and flag tax efficiency opportunities for CFO consideration.

• Oversee property tax filings, personal property appraisals, and state/local compliance calendars.

• Support lender field exams and borrowing base audits; maintain internal controls documentation.

• Coordinate annual updates to shareholder ownership computations.

6. Insurance Program Management

• Manage the annual commercial insurance renewal cycle across all lines - property, equipment, product liability, workers' compensation, and D&O.

• Coordinate with brokers and internal stakeholders to compile supporting schedules, valuations, and loss history.

• Ensure coverage adequacy is reviewed annually relative to asset base, headcount, and operational changes.

7. Grower Accounting

• Oversee grower payment processing, contract reconciliation, and seasonal settlement accounting.

• Ensure accuracy of grower obligation accruals and final settlements; coordinate with Operations on volume and quality adjustments.

• Serve as the finance point of contact for grower audit requests and escalated inquiries.

8. Systems, Data Integrity & Automation

• Own accounting data flow integrity between Adage ERP, Planful, and reporting outputs; identify and close reconciliation gaps.

• Interface with IT on report builds, SQL-based data queries, and automation initiatives that affect accounting accuracy or efficiency.

• Sponsor and drive adoption of AP/AR automation tools and process improvements; maintain human oversight on automated outputs.

• Actively seek opportunities to apply AI and automation in ways that reduce manual effort without sacrificing control.

9. Leadership & Team Development

• Directly lead two direct reports - Controller and Sr. Cost Accountant - with full accounting operations team (AR Manager, Treasury Specialist & AP Team Lead, and Accounting Specialists) reporting through the Controller; set expectations, develop capability, and hold the team accountable.

• Build a team culture of accuracy, ownership, and continuous improvement.

• Lead and leverage a highly experienced Controller - this role includes a seasoned accounting professional with deep institutional knowledge; the Director is expected to draw on that expertise, not work around it.

• Run the accounting function with a defined management system - clear KPIs for each role, explicit ownership of recurring processes, and a regular cadence of review; surface problems early and drive to root cause rather than workaround.

• Serve as the accounting function's voice in cross-functional discussions with Operations, Sales, and IT.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.

• 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 3 years leading a team or function.

• Strong working knowledge of GAAP in a manufacturing or processing environment.

• Hands-on experience with standard cost accounting, manufacturing variance analysis, and inventory valuation.

• Demonstrated ownership of a monthly close process.

• Experience managing external audit relationships and coordinating audit preparation.

• High proficiency with ERP systems and financial reporting tools; strong Excel skills.

Strongly Preferred

• CPA or CMA (active or inactive)

• Experience in food manufacturing, agricultural processing, or other seasonal / batch-process manufacturing.

• Experience working in Standard Cost environment.

• Familiarity with ABL or seasonal credit facilities and borrowing base reporting.

• Experience with SQL and AP/AR automation platforms.

• Background in a family-owned or closely held business environment.

• Experience with Planful, Adage, or comparable ERP/CPM platforms.

Competencies & Attributes

• Analytical ownership - Builds the model, owns the narrative, drives the insight - not a reporter of what others produce

• Direct communicator - Directly engages the CFO and senior leadership; clear and concise under pressure

• Change orientation - Improves processes while respecting legacy expertise; energized by building

• High adaptability - Comfortable in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and ambiguity is normal

• Accountability mindset - Takes full ownership of outcomes across the team; closes loops without prompting

• Business curiosity - Genuinely interested in understanding what drives the numbers, not just recording them

• Continuous improvement mindset - Identifies root causes rather than treating symptoms; brings structured problem-solving to process gaps, control weaknesses, and recurring variances - not satisfied with workarounds or inherited processes that no longer serve the business

• Management system orientation - Understands the value of operating with defined KPIs, clear ownership, and regular cadence; has worked within - or helped build - a structured operating rhythm and knows why it matters

• Seasonal IQ - Understands or quickly learns the cash, cost, and volume dynamics of a seasonal processing business

Essential Physical Abilities:

• Ability to sit at an office desk with sufficient vision and physical dexterity to use PC desktop system for up to eight hours.

• Ability to use standard functions of office equipment (PC, calculator, fax, printer, scanner, copier, smart phone, etc.).

• Ability to lift and handle objects weighing up to 40 pounds for use in day-to-day job functions.

• Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes which permit the employee to have access to various work sites throughout the facilities.

• Ability to travel to other TCF company locations for training or meetings may require overnight stay on rare occasions.

*Selected employees will be required to pass a background check, pre-employment drug screen and E-Verify*

Twin City Foods, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or age. For more information about our commitment to equal employment opportunity, please see this government poster: "Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal."

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