Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant

Calyx Containers | Salt Lake City, UT | Full-Time, On-Site

About Calyx: Calyx Containers is a 10-year-old packaging company serving the cannabis industry from Salt Lake City. We design, manufacture, and source compliant packaging - rigid containers, flexible packaging, and labels - through a hybrid model that combines our own domestic digital manufacturing facility with an international sourcing and brokering network. This year we launched packOS, our new digital quoting and ordering platform, which is transforming how customers get from artwork to delivered product. We are a manufacturing business, a sourcing business, and now a technology-enabled one.

The Role: You own accounts payable and accounts receivable end to end, and you support the monthly close. This role sits at the intersection of finance and the operating teams - purchasing, receiving, production, sales, customer service, and shipping - and you are the person who makes sure vendors get paid accurately and on time, customers get billed correctly, and every subledger reconciles and stands up to an audit. This is a hands-on seat with real ownership and room to grow. You report to the Controller, who will back you up on the harder calls, and you will work with the sales team on cash and collections. It is also a role where we expect you to make the work better, not just do it: when you find a manual workaround where the system has a native feature, we want you to say so and fix it.

What You Own:

• Accounts Payable
• Process vendor invoices for raw materials, packaging components, equipment, freight, and general operating costs.
• Perform three-way matching of invoices against purchase orders and receiving reports, and resolve discrepancies with purchasing and receiving before anything is entered.
• Prepare and execute weekly and monthly payment runs via ACH, wire, and check.
• Reconcile vendor statements and clear outstanding balances.
• Maintain accurate vendor files, including W-9s, tax IDs, and payment terms.
• Support month-end close with AP accruals and related journal entries.
• Support annual 1099 filing and compliance with company policy and applicable tax and reporting regulations, with the Controller.
• Accounts Receivable
• Generate and issue accurate customer invoices from shipments, sales orders, and service agreements.
• Post and apply customer payments (check, ACH, wire, credit card) to open invoices.
• Monitor aging, follow up on past-due accounts, and escalate early rather than late.
• Coordinate with sales and customer service on billing issues, credits, and disputes; process credit memos, returns, and chargebacks.
• Reconcile customer accounts and keep records clean in NetSuite.
• Support collections strategy and customer credit review in an industry where counterparty diligence genuinely matters.
• Close and Cross-Functional
• Participate in month-end close: reconciliations, journal entries, and support to the Controller on bank reconciliation.
• Prepare AP and AR reporting for leadership - aging summaries, payment schedules, and inputs to the weekly cash forecast.
• Support internal and external audits with clean, retrievable documentation.
• Find and fix the manual workarounds. If a process runs on a spreadsheet that the ERP could handle natively, propose the better way and build it.

Your First 90 Days

• Day 30: You have run a full AP cycle and a full AR cycle, met purchasing, receiving, and customer service, and mapped how work actually flows into your queue.
• Day 60: Vendor and customer accounts are reconciled, aging is trending the right direction, and you have brought us your first process improvement.
• Day 90: The unapplied prepayment backlog in NetSuite is cleaned up and documented, your subledgers tie without drama, and close support from your side is routine.

Who You Are

• Detail-obsessed and organized. You are the person who notices that a receipt quantity does not match the bill, and you chase it down before you enter anything.
• An owner of open items. You follow through without being reminded, and you raise problems early rather than at close.
• A builder of better processes. When you see a manual step that a system could do, you say so and then go do something about it.
• Genuinely excited about AI-enabled productivity. Leadership here uses AI daily to compress analysis, reporting, and documentation, and we expect the same appetite from you. You see it as leverage, not a threat.
• A clear communicator with people outside finance. You will talk to vendors, customers, and the production floor, and you can do it plainly and warmly.
• Comfortable in a company that is changing. New platform, scaling facility, new ways of working - you see that as the interesting part.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of AP/AR or general accounting experience. Manufacturing, packaging, or consumer products experience is a plus, not a requirement.
• Hands-on experience in an ERP system. NetSuite experience is a strong plus; if you have worked in another ERP and learn systems fast, tell us.
• Working knowledge of three-way match, month-end close basics, and general accounting principles. We will teach you 1099 filing if you have not owned it before.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort reconciling high-volume transaction detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication for working with vendors, customers, and internal partners.
• Comfort using AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) in real accounting work - reconciliations, documentation, vendor and customer correspondence - or a demonstrated hunger to get there fast.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field; equivalent relevant work experience may be substituted.

Schedule and Benefits: Full-time, on-site, salaried. Some extra hours during month-end close. Benefits include unlimited PTO, health, dental, and vision coverage, 401(k), HSA, FSA, and company-paid AD&D insurance.

Why This Role, Why Now: Calyx just turned ten. We are scaling a domestic manufacturing operation and launching the platform that feeds it, and the finance function behind all of it is being rebuilt right now. You will have real ownership of AP and AR, a direct line to the Controller and the President, and a standing invitation to make the work better rather than just keep it moving. This is a role that grows with the person in it.

To apply, send your resume to View email address on click.appcast.io with the subject line "Staff Accountant." Cover letter is encouraged. Calyx Containers LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other protected status.