Sr. Accountant

Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Sr. Accountant to support a food manufacturing operation in Johnson Creek, Wisconsin. This Long-term Contract position will focus on high-volume reporting, inventory-related analysis, and accounting follow-through that helps strengthen day-to-day operational visibility. The person in this role will partner closely with finance and operations to improve accuracy, resolve outstanding issues, and keep critical reporting deliverables on schedule.

Responsibilities:

• Produce recurring financial and operational reports that give stakeholders timely insight into plant activity, costs, and inventory movements.

• Manage the end-to-end accounting support for scrap and disposal activity, ensuring records are complete, reviewed promptly, and reflected accurately.

• Investigate accounts payable items and coordinate follow-up actions through final payment resolution.

• Analyze open purchase orders across systems, identify discrepancies, and drive closure of aged or unresolved items.

• Review order detail lines and correct coding or processing issues that affect reporting accuracy.

• Prepare and distribute routine scrap, repair and maintenance, inventory, and labor-related reports on daily, weekly, and recurring schedules.

• Monitor timekeeping and labor coding outputs to confirm costs are assigned to the appropriate cost centers.

• Maintain count documentation, update tracking logs, and verify that post-count activity is recorded correctly.

• Support ongoing tracking processes and reporting improvements tied to operational accounting needs and process stabilization.

• Strong experience with month-end close activities, including journal entries and general ledger support.
• Proficiency in account reconciliation and bank reconciliation within a high-volume accounting environment.
• Background preparing and analyzing inventory reports, preferably in a manufacturing or food processing setting.
• Hands-on knowledge of accounts payable research, issue resolution, and transaction follow-up.
• Ability to work independently while managing multiple recurring deadlines and ad hoc reporting requests.
• Advanced attention to detail with a focus on data accuracy, timeliness, and follow-through.
• Effective communication skills for working across finance, operations, and other internal teams.