Senior Accountant

Overview

Morton Salt is an iconic company with a strong heritage and a bright future. Since 1848, we have been improving lives and enhancing everyday moments – at home, at work and virtually everywhere in between. We help unlock the flavors in food, make roads and sidewalks safer, improve the water in baths, pools, and homes, and keep businesses and industries running.

We are a dedicated team who constantly strives to do better together, and we are passionate about building a sustainable future for our company, the communities in which we operate, and the world around us. By joining our team, you will contribute to producing and delivering every form of salt that enhances everyday life.

• Intercompany Transactions: Manage, update, and ensure accuracy for intercompany activities between related entities. Organize, control, coordinate, and execute the monthly reconciliation of all intercompany balances. Collaborate daily with plant controllers and other corporate departments for ongoing account transactions and reconciling items.
• Month End Close: Ensure all closing transactions are completed on time and in accordance with the month-end calendar, including bank reconciliations and gathering month-end information from key stakeholders. Follow up on discrepancies or missing documentation and assist the controller with month-end reporting data.
• Account Reconciliation and Analysis: Monthly, prepare account reconciliations and upload to One Stream, ensuring balances are explained and supported to facilitate management review and timely resolution of unreconciled items.
• Lease management: Track and reconcile leases on a monthly and quarterly basis and report to the corporate lease accounting team.
• Payroll and vacation accruals: Prepare journal entries for weekly payrolls and monthly payroll, retirement, and vacation accrual entries with supporting documentation.
• Rebates: Manage customer rebate accruals and validate deductions and credits issued monthly, quarterly and annually.
• Internal Control and Audit: Maintain proper internal controls for accounting duties, including documentation for journal entries and reconciliations. Assist with internal and external audit requests by collecting and organizing supporting documentation.
• Census and Statistical Reporting: Create and complete templates for quarterly and annual census and statistical reporting for US and Canada governmental agencies. Prepare support calculations for balance sheet and income statement items. Develop ad hoc reports as required and present results for internal management and submission.
• Other regulatory reporting: Create data sets for Canadian and US EPR/bluebox reporting and for Federal Plastic Registry reporting in Canada as required.
• Annual budget: Assist with preparation of annual budgets for SG&A.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• Minimum of five years in a corporate accounting function at a large or medium-sized company (public or private). Working understanding of inventory management required.
• Strong organizational and time management skills to meet deadlines.
• Effective written and spoken communication skills.
• Team player capable of multi-tasking and delivering results within deadlines.

• Willingness to learn and provide assistance beyond job description.
• Experience with Dynamics NAV software.
• Experience with One Stream account reconciliations.
• Experience working in a multi-currency environment (Canada specifically).

At Morton Salt, we work best when we work as a team, when we treat one another with dignity and respect, and value the unique contributions of others. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, national origin, sex, religion, color, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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