Accounting Manager

The Accounting Manager is responsible for leading and overseeing the day-to-day accounting operations supporting the organization's business entities. This position provides technical accounting leadership while ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial reporting, month-end close activities, internal controls, and compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and company policies.

The Accounting Manager serves as a strategic business partner to Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Human Resources, and executive leadership by providing financial analysis, supporting operational decision-making, identifying process improvements, and strengthening financial controls across multiple manufacturing entities.

This position is responsible for establishing departmental priorities, coordinating accounting activities, and fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement while supporting the organization's financial objectives.

• Lead and coordinate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close activities across multiple legal entities, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting.
• Coordinate and prepare weekly financial reporting packages, supporting schedules, and detailed financial analyses for executive leadership and the organization's international ownership group.
• Review, prepare, and approve complex journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and adjusting entries while maintaining the integrity of the general ledger.
• Prepare and analyze monthly financial statements, management reports, key performance indicators (KPIs), and variance analyses to support executive decision-making.
• Maintain responsibility for balance sheet reconciliations, account analysis, and timely resolution of accounting discrepancies.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to ensure accurate inventory accounting, cost accounting, inventory reconciliations, cycle count programs, and annual physical inventory activities.
• Partner with Finance leadership to develop annual operating budgets, periodic forecasts, cash flow projections, and financial analyses supporting strategic and operational decision-making.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, internal accounting policies, and applicable federal, state, and local financial reporting requirements.
• Coordinate internal audits, external audits, tax reporting, sales and use tax compliance, and other regulatory reporting requirements.
• Oversee fixed asset accounting, depreciation schedules, capital project accounting, and capitalization policies.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement process improvements that strengthen accounting operations, improve efficiency, enhance internal controls, and support ERP optimization, financial system enhancements, reporting automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to improve financial visibility, operational reporting, and overall business performance across multiple operating companies.
• Plan, prioritize, assign, and review accounting activities to ensure departmental objectives and reporting deadlines are consistently achieved.
• Provide technical guidance, coaching, mentoring, and leadership to accounting staff while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous professional development.
• Develop and maintain accounting policies, procedures, and documentation that promote consistency, compliance, and operational excellence throughout the enterprise.

• Employees may be required to perform additional duties outside the primary responsibilities described above in support of departmental objectives, special projects, acquisitions, ERP implementations, business integrations, and other organizational initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related discipline.
• Minimum of
  eight (8)years of progressive accounting experience.
• Minimum of three (3) years supporting manufacturing or multi-entity accounting environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex month-end close processes and financial reporting.
• Experience with inventory accounting, cost accounting,…