Accounting Manager

Accounting Manager

Location:

Lenexa, KS, US

Experience:

Manager

Salary: $125,000 - $140,000 per year

• Oversee day-to-day accounting operations for manufacturing and related business units
• Manage monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes to ensure timely and accurate financial reporting
• Review and approve journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules
• Ensure accurate general ledger maintenance across manufacturing, inventory, and operational cost centers
• Coordinate with AP and AR functions to maintain accurate cash flow and working capital reporting

• Own standard cost and actual cost accounting processes for manufactured goods
• Maintain and reconcile inventory accounts, including raw materials, WIP, and finished goods
• Track and analyze variances related to labor, material, overhead, and production efficiency
• Partner with operations and production leadership to ensure accurate routing, BOMs, and labor allocations
• Support physical inventory counts and cycle count programs; investigate and resolve variances
• Assist with inventory valuation, obsolescence analysis, and reserves

• Prepare internal financial statements and management reporting packages
• Provide clear analysis of manufacturing margins, cost drivers, and operational performance
• Assist the head of finance with budgeting, forecasting, and cost control initiatives
• Support external reporting needs, including lenders, auditors, and insurance providers
• Develop scalable reporting tools and metrics to support growth and operational decision-making

• Ensure accounting practices comply with GAAP and internal control standards
• Support year-end audit and tax preparation processes by providing schedules and documentation
• Maintain strong internal controls over inventory, revenue recognition, and cost accounting
• Assist with sales/use tax, property tax, and manufacturing-related compliance reporting as needed
• Document and continuously improve accounting processes as the organization scales

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5+ years progressive accounting experience, including manufacturing or cost accounting
• Strong understanding of inventory accounting, standard costing, and variance analysis
• Experience working within ERP systems in a manufacturing environment
• Proven ability to manage close processes and meet reporting deadlines

• Manufacturing and cost accounting expertise
• Inventory and margin analysis
• Process improvement and documentation
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Attention to detail with big-picture financial thinking
• Professional judgment and discretion

We are a privately held, fast-growing manufacturer scaling our operations and investing heavily in the finance and systems backbone that will support that growth. We build products in a hands‑on manufacturing environment and are at an inflection point: standing up our accounting function, modernizing our ERP, and creating scalable processes that will carry us through a period of significant expansion. We value people who take ownership, find a way through problems, and are simply good to work with.

• Fully remote: work from almost anywhere in the US, with only occasional travel
• Build, don't maintain: own and design the close, reconciliations, and cost processes from the ground up
• Real growth story: leadership is targeting aggressive multi‑year growth, so your work compounds
• Clear runway: a genuine path to grow into a Controller seat as the function and team scale
• Shape the systems: help support a greenfield ERP implementation and a cash‑to‑accrual transition
• Direct access to leadership: report straight to the CFO, with no layers in between
• People‑first culture: high standards paired with flexibility, where being a good person and a hard worker matters as much as technical skill