Senior Accountant

Senior Accountant

General Fasteners Company located in Livonia, MI is looking to hire a full-time Senior Accountant. Would you like to join a stable and growing local company where there is potential for career growth? If so, please read on! This Senior Accountant position earns a competitive starting wage, and we also offer great benefits and perks, such as 10 paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), a 401(k) option, flexible spending accounts (FSAs), life insurance, a down-to-earth casual environment, and a positive team-oriented culture. Our full-time employees also have access to medical, dental, vision, and other insurance options.

JOB SUMMARY: The Senior Accountant plays a pivotal role in month-end close activities, technical accounting research, and analyzing financial information and the preparation and review of financial reports and statements, ensuring compliance with U.S. GAAP and company policies. The role leads the use of AI and automation in transactional accounting, shares ownership and administration of the OneStream platform, with a focus on consolidation and close, and prepares reports for management review.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Lead and perform key month-end close activities, including journal entries and account reconciliations within month end calendar deadlines
• Balance sheet and P/L Reviews to ensure accuracy and compliance
• Design, deploy and maintain AI and automation solutions for transactional accounting, such as journal entry preparation, reconciliations, and flux analysis, including review controls over AI-assisted work
• Share ownership and administration of OneStream with the FP&A team, focused on consolidation, intercompany eliminations, foreign currency translation, account reconciliation and close workflows
• Complete sales/use tax and personal property tax filings and support income tax provisions and third-party tax compliance
• Manage fixed assets and CAPEX tracking, along with lease accounting under ASC 842
• Analyzing Financial data to identify trends and issues with resolutions and or recommendations
• Review supporting data and analysis as required for bank, year-end, and tax audits
• Budget preparation and monitoring working with departments to stay within due dates
• Assist in the preparation of management reporting packages, variance analyses, and KPI dashboards for leadership
• Perform research on complex accounting issues
• Support special projects such as system implementations and process improvements
• Perform ad-hoc analysis as required by Controller, Director of Finance, or CFO

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES:

• Experience with Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Experience with Epicor and OneStream
• Experience using automation or AI tools in accounting processes preferred
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy while meeting deadlines
• Must be self-directed and possess a high level of personal organization and drive
• Possess excellent communication skills including verbal, written and interpersonal
• Interact well with employees at all levels within the organization and be able to build and maintain positive working relationships
• Willingness and ability to be flexible and adapt to changing job requirements
• Possess knowledge of GAAP principles
• Possess a strong level of problem-solving skills

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting required
• 3+ years of related experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT: The physical demands and work environment described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to type, file and/or lift up to 20 lbs. The employee is frequently required to hear and speak. The employee is required to sit, stand, move about, and use hands and arms to reach, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

OTHER FUNCTIONS: Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time, with or without notice. This job description is not intended to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this position.

ABOUT GENERAL FASTENERS COMPANY Founded in 1952, General Fasteners Company is a full-service distributor of Fasteners and Assembly Components. We excel at providing great products, superior customer service, customized Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) programs, product testing, and engineering solutions for our valued customers. Our company culture plays a large part in our success. With 11 locations in North America, General Fasteners Company continues to provide these services to numerous companies throughout North America. General Fasteners Company continues to find new and innovative ways to service our customers as we carry on the traditional values on which our company was founded. After 70 years, we continue to be a privately held Michigan corporation dedicated to helping our customers reach their strategic goals through inventory solutions. We believe that happy, talented employees add value to our company. We do our best to hire friendly, down-to-earth people who make good team members. We also promote a healthy work-life balance and personal development.