Assistant Accounting Manager

Grow your career in accounting with our Assistant Accounting Manager position – a great opportunity to gain hands‑on experience, develop key leadership skills, and grow with a dynamic team! This job is primarily responsible for assisting with accounting operations and reporting. Responsibilities may include but not be limited to recording, classifying, examining, and analyzing fiscal transactions and preparing financial reports, interpreting the general ledger and subsidiary ledgers, reviewing reports submitted by others, and handling general accounting issues.

The incumbent may be responsible for managing a staff or may work as an independent specialized accounting role.

• Protect company assets through judgment, monitoring internal control effectiveness, and maintaining complete and accurate fixed‑asset records.
• Assist management by supervising the operations of the accounting department, including control systems, transaction‑processing operations, and policies and procedures.
• Monitor and manage the company’s daily cash position to ensure liquidity.
• Prepare or assist in the preparation of income, sales, property, and state tax returns.
• Work with the manager to ensure timely and complete month‑end closing, financial reporting, account reconciliation, review of financial statements, forecasting, budgeting, and maintenance of fixed assets.
• Monitor business activities to maintain compliance with laws and internal guidelines.
• Review and approve credit applications and limits.
• Collaborate with the manager on property taxes, sales taxes, and commodity grain assessment remittances.
• Help add and/or maintain discount and premium codes and tables.
• Assist in audit preparations, including preparing reports and requested information, and may participate in the annual risk assessment process.
• May supervise and coach assigned staff, including recommendations for hiring, scheduling, training, promotion, performance‑related issues, and firing.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education

Required – Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.

Experience

Preferred – One Year Of Accounting Experience.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite; strong use of database and spreadsheet applications (Excel).
• Working knowledge of the theory and practice of accounting (fixed assets, receivables, cash processes, internal revenue code, tax, reconciliation, financial statements, and processes).
• Working knowledge of accounting and financial software programs, and automated data processing systems/programs.
• Knowledge of forecasting, statistical modeling, including variance analysis.
• Basic knowledge of sales and use tax.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to interpret data and present findings.
• Effective interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of people within and outside the organization.
• Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to remain flexible to changing priorities.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to effectively supervise and coach subordinates, including the ability to communicate regarding performance.
• Ability to prepare clear and concise reports.
• Ability to work effectively both autonomously and within a team environment.
• Ability to work extended hours; outside normal business hours, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• Ability to quickly and efficiently respond to rapidly changing environments.

Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Ability to stand or sit constantly/continuously. Hearing – perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Vision – close visual acuity is required to perform tasks such as preparing and analyzing data, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, extensive reading, visual inspection of…