Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant

MaxPak/TRG Lakeland, an affiliate of Schwarz Partners, is currently seeking a Staff Accountant to support our Lakeland, FL facility. The Staff Accountant supports the financial operations of the company by maintaining accurate records, preparing financial reports, and reviewing and auditing financial transactions including special customer invoicing and purchases. This role is essential in ensuring compliance with internal controls and external regulations, particularly within a manufacturing environment.

MaxPak/TRG Lakeland truly values our employees as our greatest asset and we strive to support both you and your family at work and in life.

Essential Job Functions for This Position:

• Reconciliation of General Ledger accounts as assigned.
• Prepare specialized invoices for customers outside of the normal billing/shipping process including such transactions as customer pre-payments, cash-in-advance accounts, and tooling invoices
• Maintain records and schedules for Fixed Asset/Capital projects, and specialty spending projects (examples: Maintenance Special Projects, IT Special projects, Customer support projects)
• Maintain and prepare records and schedule for pre-paid expense (including Insurance and other expenses identified as pre-payments), and other Accrued expense schedules as assigned
• Maintain schedule of Roll Stock purchases to reconcile open, in-transit, and received orders for Roll Stock including approval of invoices to pay invoices related to Roll Stock purchases
• Ensure compliance with GAAP and company policies
• Provide some technical direction to other accountants and/or clerical staff doing bookkeeping
• Provide special project assistance to Director of Finance, or Controller
• Additional duties as assigned
• Regular and predictable attendance

Required Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, related field.
• Strong understanding of GAAP and financial reporting.
• Proficiency in ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, NetSuite) and Microsoft Excel

Preferred Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
• 2+ years of accounting experience, preferably in a manufacturing or industrial setting
• Experience with cost accounting and inventory management

Required Skills & Abilities:

• Detail-oriented with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to utilize accounting processes, plus add, subtract, multiply, divide in all units of measure. Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, costs, proportions, and volumes.

Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with lean manufacturing principles
• CPA or progress toward certification is a plus but not required

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee must have the ability to stand, walk, talk, sit for extended periods of time, and do prolonged computer work requiring vision exertion. Occasionally lift boxes of accounting records up to 30 Lbs.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to a regular office environment with climate control. Occasionally exposed to the warehouse area that is not climate control. The noise level in the warehouse area is usually loud.

As an Industry Leader, We Offer:

• Year-round employment for job stability.
• Unlimited opportunities for growth, training, and career advancement.
• Exceptional pay and great, affordable benefits (including life, medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match and more!).
• 10 paid holidays & paid vacation time.

Recent graduates are welcome to apply! If you would like to be part of a forward-thinking team with a family feel, culture of excellence, and customer-focused reliability, we want you to be a part of our team!

Our organization is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.