Sr. Accountant

Job Description

Job Description

Summary: 

The Senior Accountant will serve as the primary day-to-day accounting resource for Cardinal Aggregates, Inc. and will be responsible for accurate accounting, timely close activities, and financial and operational reporting across the company's quarry, portable crushing, and trucking operations. This position will manage a broad range of accounting responsibilities, including general ledger activity, account reconciliations, job and project accounting, inventory, fixed assets, accounts receivable, cash receipts, royalties, and required operational reporting.

The candidate will work closely with the Miller Bros Const., Inc. Controller, Cardinal leadership, operations, Accounts Payable, Payroll Manager, Data Analyst, and other accounting personnel.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Complete Cardinal's month-end and year-end accounting activities and complete assigned close tasks accurately and on schedule.
• Prepare and post journal entries, reclassifications, and other general ledger activity in accordance with company procedures.
• Prepare bank reconciliations, research and resolve reconciling items promptly.
• Maintain fixed asset records, including additions, disposals, depreciation, and construction-in-progress activity.
• Prepare monthly inventory adjustments and help ensure quarry and other material inventories are accurately recorded.
• Maintain work-in-progress at month end.
• Prepare and maintain project records for portable crushing, quarry, and trucking operations.
• Prepare month-end financial reports and supporting schedules, analyze variances and trends, and communicate significant items to the Controller and Cardinal leadership.
• Maintain accounts receivable records, apply cash receipts, and follow up on account discrepancies or outstanding items.
• Support accounts payable activities as needed.
• Prepare and maintain sales and use tax, severance tax, royalty, and other required accounting or compliance schedules and filings.
• Provide MSHA payroll reports to management and safety operations.
• Assist with annual budgets, forecasts, audit requests, tax support, and other financial analysis for Cardinal.
• Maintain clear accounting procedures and supporting documentation and help ensure Cardinal's processes follow company internal control and segregation-of-duties expectations.
• Identify recurring accounting or reporting issues, develop practical long-term solutions, and provide ongoing accounting guidance to Cardinal personnel while coordinating with the shared corporate accounting team.
• Perform additional tasks and special projects as assigned.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field preferred; an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.

Experience:

• Progressively responsible accounting experience, including month-end close, journal entries, account reconciliations, financial reporting, generally accepted accounting principles, and internal controls.
• Construction, job cost, aggregate, mining, manufacturing, or transportation accounting experience is preferred;
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to explain results, identify unusual activity, resolve discrepancies, and report on business lines with different operating and accounting characteristics.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel and general ledger or ERP systems; experience with job cost and reporting tools is preferred.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to work independently, manage recurring deadlines and shifting priorities, follow issues through to completion, and recognize when an item should be escalated.
• Ability to communicate effectively with accounting personnel, management, operations, customers, vendors, and other parties while providing professional and useful service.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment when working with accounting, employee, customer, vendor, and financial information.

Environment or Physical Working Conditions –

• Ability to work with occasional exposure to dirty and dusty conditions and extremes of weather.
• Ability to work under conditions of frequent exposure to dusty conditions and the full range of weather conditions.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the associate(s) incumbent in this position. A review of this Job Description has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of the fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform each job duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.

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All phases of employment including, but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, selection for training, promotion, demotion, discipline, rates of pay or other compensation, transfer, layoff, termination, recall, use of all facilities, and participation in all company-sponsored activities, will be administered so as to further the principle of equal employment opportunity.