Sr. Accountant

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Full Time Professional Vernon, Vernon, CA, US

5 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

Company:
Unity Meals

Location:

Vernon, CA (On-site)

Reports To:

VP of Finance Department:
Finance & Accounting Position Type:
Full-Time

Unity Meals is seeking a hands-on Senior Accountant with at least 5 years of progressive accounting experience, including strong cost accounting experience, contribution margin analysis, marginal income analysis, and product line P&L financial reporting.

Hands-on Net Suite ERP experience is a critical requirement for this role. The Senior Accountant must be comfortable working directly in Net Suite to review transactions, support the monthly close, analyze financial data, improve reporting, and ensure accounting records are accurate and complete.

This role will report directly to the VP of Finance and will work closely with Unity Meals’ third-party accountant to review accounting work, validate reconciliations, support month-end close, and ensure financial reporting is accurate, timely, and aligned with GAAP.

The ideal candidate understands how financial results connect to operations, production, labor, food cost, inventory, customer profitability, and cash flow. This person must be comfortable working in a fast-paced food service, food manufacturing, prepared meals, or similar operating environment.

Net Suite ERP Ownership & Reporting

• Use Net Suite ERP daily to process, review, analyze, and report financial information.
• Serve as a key internal Net Suite accounting user for the finance team.
• Review transaction coding, classifications, departments, customers, products, programs, locations, and accounts for accuracy.
• Support Net Suite-based month-end close activities, reconciliations, financial reports, saved searches, and dashboards.
• Identify Net Suite reporting gaps, data accuracy issues, workflow inefficiencies, and manual workarounds.
• Recommend and support improvements to Net Suite workflows, reporting, account structure, item costing, and financial controls.
• Ensure financial data in Net Suite is reliable, complete, and useful for leadership decision-making.

• Work closely with Unity Meals’ third-party accountant on monthly accounting activities.
• Review work prepared by the third-party accountant, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, schedules, and supporting documentation.
• Validate that accounting entries are accurate, properly supported, and recorded in the correct period.
• Follow up on open items, reconciling differences, missing support, and unresolved accounting questions.
• Help ensure the monthly close is completed accurately and on schedule.
• Escalate accounting issues, risks, and delays to the VP of Finance.
• Support stronger communication and accountability between Unity Meals and external accounting support.

• Support and improve cost accounting processes related to food, packaging, labor, freight, production, and overhead.
• Prepare contribution margin and marginal income analysis by customer to support pricing, customer profitability, production planning, and operational decisions.
• Partner with Operations, Procurement, Production, and Sales to identify cost drivers and margin improvement opportunities.
• Monitor standard costs, actual costs, yield, waste, spoilage, labor efficiency, and purchase price variances.
• Help develop stronger reporting around gross margin, contribution margin, cost per meal/unit, and customer profitability.

• Provide financial analysis to help leadership understand drivers of revenue, margin, labor cost, food cost, waste, and operating expenses.
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and rolling financial projections.
• Prepare ad hoc financial analysis for the VP of Finance and leadership team.
• Assist in evaluating pricing decisions, customer profitability, production changes, and cost reduction initiatives.
• Translate accounting results into practical business insights for non-finance leaders.

• Support stronger accounting processes, controls, and documentation.
• Identify and help resolve accounting process inefficiencies.
• Improve accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting.
• Support controls around inventory, purchasing, AP coding,…