Sr Accountant

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats™, PEBBLES™, Grape-Nuts™ and Malt-O-Meal™ cereal and Peter Pan™ peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™ and 9

Lives™ dog and cat food. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea:
To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit  and follow us on Linked In or Facebook for the latest news.

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.

As a Senior Accountant at Post Consumer Brands, you will play a key role in delivering accurate, timely, and meaningful financial information that supports business decisions across the organization. This position partners closely with operations, finance, tax, internal audit, and other cross-functional teams to ensure accounting activities are completed with integrity, precision, and compliance with U.S. GAAP.

Working in a fast-paced consumer products and manufacturing environment, you will independently manage complex accounting activities, strengthen internal controls, drive process improvements, and help build scalable accounting operations that support continued growth.

• Lead assigned monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities, including journal entries, account reconciliations, financial analyses, and supporting schedules.
• Analyze financial results, investigate variances, and resolve discrepancies by understanding underlying business activity and system transactions.
• Research and apply U.S. GAAP guidance to complex accounting matters and develop well-supported accounting recommendations.
• Partner with operations, plant teams, finance, tax, and internal audit to evaluate accounting and reporting implications of business activities.
• Maintain the integrity of balance sheet and income statement accounts through timely reconciliation and resolution of reconciling items.
• Prepare documentation supporting accounting conclusions, estimates, judgments, and nonroutine transactions.
• Execute and strengthen Sarbanes-Oxley compliance through effective control execution, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Support audit and tax requirements by preparing requested information and collaborating with internal and external auditors.
• Identify opportunities to standardize, automate, and simplify accounting processes while maintaining strong internal controls.
• Contribute to system implementations, integrations, and other cross-functional initiatives that support organizational growth.

• Make a visible impact on financial reporting and business decision-making across a leading consumer brands organization.
• Partner with diverse teams across manufacturing, operations, finance, tax, and audit functions.
• Apply professional judgment and technical accounting expertise to meaningful business challenges.
• Help shape scalable processes and leverage technology, including AI tools, to improve efficiency and…