Accountant, Financial Reporting, Financial Analyst

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Opportunity for advancement
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Accurate Paper Box is seeking a high performing Staff Accountant AND Financial Analyst to own both the integrity of our financial reporting and the improvement of our financial performance.

This is a hands on role responsible for maintaining clean, accurate books while also driving financial visibility, margin analysis, and operational insight. We are a growing manufacturing company with a small, high accountability team. Each team member is expected to take initiative, operate with urgency, and improve the business beyond their defined tasks.

This position requires both precision and analytical depth. The ideal candidate is highly detail oriented, proactive, comfortable holding others accountable, and capable of identifying opportunities to strengthen financial systems and profitability.

Accounting Ownership

• Manage accounts payable and ensure accurate expense coding
• Manage accounts receivable including active follow up on past due balances
• Maintain accurate general ledger in Quick Books Online
• Perform monthly bank and credit card reconciliations
• Record journal entries and accruals
• Support and participate in month end close
• Prepare financial statements including profit and loss and balance sheet
• Ensure books are accurate and ready for external CPA review

Financial Analysis and Margin Improvement

• Analyze job level profitability and margin trends
• Identify cost drivers and areas of margin leakage
• Support leadership with financial insights that inform decision making
• Build and maintain analytical reports in Excel
• Develop KPI dashboards to improve operational visibility
• Perform variance analysis and trend analysis

Operator analysts who generate insight and drives change, not merely reports on it.
Find it, report it, fix and improve it

ERP and Systems Optimization

• Work within ERP systems to ensure accurate data flow into accounting
• Reconcile ERP data with Quick Books and identify inconsistencies
• Evaluate and improve reporting architecture
• Improve data cleanliness and tracking accuracy
• Recommend system and workflow improvements

Accountability and Initiative

• Proactively follow up with customers on outstanding receivables
• Follow up internally when information is required to complete financial tasks
• Identify inefficiencies and propose solutions
• Operate with a high level of ownership and personal responsibility

• 3 to 7 years of hands on accounting experience
• Strong working knowledge of Quick Books Online
• Experience working within an ERP system
• Direct experience managing accounts payable and accounts receivable
• Experience completing monthly bank reconciliations independently
• Strong understanding of debits and credits
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel including pivot tables and lookup functions
• Demonstrated experience improving a financial process or reporting structure
• Ability to work independently and operate with initiative

• Experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with inventory accounting and cost tracking
• Experience building dashboards or financial analysis tools
• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Analytics, Finance, or related field

• Detail oriented and structured
• Comfortable having direct conversations regarding overdue payments
• Analytical and naturally curious about business performance
• Process driven and improvement focused
• Takes ownership rather than waiting for instruction
• Motivated by improving systems and financial outcomes
• Those who take massive, intentional, deliberate action, all the time!