Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager - Dalton, GA

The Accounting Manager reports directly to the company's president. Direct reports include the Accounting Specialist and the HR & Benefits Administrator.

Responsibilities

• Manage the company's financial and accounting activities.
• Serve as a member of the management teams.
• Maintain the integrity of the companies' financial statements, as well as, support management on business decisions.
• Perform month-end closing duties including preparing journal entries, reviewing financial accounts, and performing account reconciliations.
• Prepare monthly cost center report packages.
• Prepare monthly company financial reports.
• Prepare monthly forecasts.
• Evaluate opportunities for cost-saving initiatives.
• Perform other related analytical duties as required.
• Serve as the point person for banking, accounting, and tax relationships with third parties.
• Provide various other ad hoc reports as needed.
• Hire, train, and retain skilled accounting & HR staff

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of job-specific work experience required.
• CPA is a plus
• In-depth understanding of GAAP, financial accounting principles, and practices, specifically as they apply to costing, capital expenditure, budgeting, and internal reporting.
• Excellent oral, written, presentation, and interpersonal communications skills; ability to effectively exercise tact, discretion, judgment, and diplomacy when interacting and/or negotiating with internal and external customers, and senior management.
• Ability to present and explain business and financial information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills.