Senior Accountant - Americas

• Location 101 Gordon Drive,Exton, PA, 19341,United States

United Safety and Survivability Corporation is committed to delivering the most innovative and reliable safety and survivability solutions our customers can trust to protect life and property. As the global leader in our industry, we push boundaries by utilizing innovation to highly engineer and produce the next generation of safety and survivability technologies.

At United Safety we’re solving our industry's most important problems with talented individuals who share our passion to change the world. Our culture is fast-paced, energetic and innovative. We work to build an inclusive environment in which everyone, regardless of gender, race, religion, age, or background, can do their best work. We are fully committed to continuous growth and advancement; we will reinvest profits and resources into our employees, our processes and product innovation.

Job Title:
Senior Accountant - Americas

Summary: The Senior Accountant – Americas, will own general accounting, month-end close, and financial reporting while providing hands‑on leadership and review across the accounting function. This person is equally comfortable reviewing the work of others and rolling up their sleeves on complex reconciliations, technical accounting questions, and close-cycle escalations directly.

This individual will own the full close cycle end-to-end, drive process discipline and reporting accuracy, and serve as a key technical resource for the accounting team. The role is a critical cross-functional partner to FP&A, Treasury, Operations, and the Corporate Controller, and plays a central part in ensuring the accounting function runs as a high-performing, well-controlled operation that scales with business growth.

As the Senior Accountant
-Americas, you will:

• Lead and review the work of staff accountants during month-end and year-end close, while actively performing complex close activities directly
• Execute the expectations for the close calendar and provide regular coaching, feedback, and development support to junior team members
• Own the month-end closing calculations, journal entries, and reconciliations per policy and the closing schedule, identifying issues early and escalating as needed
• Serve as an escalation point for complex reconciliation discrepancies, technical accounting questions, and exception handling — resolving them directly when needed
• Support onboarding and training of new accounting staff, including hands‑on training in close procedures and ERP workflows
• Maintain, analyze, and review all general ledger accounts and subledgers, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of open items
• Review and approve journal entries prepared by staff, ensuring proper support and appropriateness
• Own fixed asset management, intercompany accounting, and tracking of prepaids and accrued expenses
• Support AR and AP accounting and reconciliation of subledgers and owning the reconciliation of the RNI account
• Execute and review daily cash reconciliations, monthly commissions, royalty payments, sales and use tax filings, and intercompany transactions
• Execute and review FX revaluation postings and FX gain/loss analysis
• Own analysis and reconciliation of inventory, purchase price variance (PPV), revenue recognition, inventory labor and overhead capitalization, standard cost analysis and yearly rolls
• Own monthly trial balance account analysis and variance commentary; lead preparation of financial statements and management reports
• Deliver regular reporting to Finance leadership, including account‑level analysis, variance explanations, and open‑item tracking
• Prepare and present complex accounting information to the accounting team and cross‑functionally to non‑finance stakeholders
• Partner with FP&A on forecast-to-actual variance analysis and reporting cadence
• Serve as a key internal resource for ERP system usage within the accounting function, supporting configuration questions, workflow issues, and user troubleshooting
• Identify, design, and implement process improvements that increase close efficiency, reduce manual effort, and strengthen controls
• Develop standard operating procedures…