Staff Accountant

Staff Accountant

Calyx Containers | Salt Lake City, UT | Full-Time, On-Site | Reports to the Controller

Compensation is competitive and we share the full range in the first conversation.

Calyx Containers is a 10-year-old packaging company serving the cannabis industry from Salt Lake City. We design, manufacture, and source compliant packaging - rigid containers, flexible packaging, and labels - through a hybrid model that combines our own domestic digital manufacturing facility with an international sourcing and brokering network. This year we launched packOS, our new digital quoting and ordering platform, which is transforming how customers get from artwork to delivered product.

We are a manufacturing business, a sourcing business, and now a technology-enabled one.

You own accounts payable and accounts receivable end to end, and you support the monthly close. This role sits at the intersection of finance and the operating teams - purchasing, receiving, production, sales, customer service, and shipping - and you are the person who makes sure vendors get paid accurately and on time, customers get billed correctly, and every subledger reconciles and stands up to an audit.

This is a hands‑on seat with real ownership and room to grow. You report to the Controller, who will back you up on the harder calls, and you will work with the sales team on cash and collections. It is also a role where we expect you to make the work better, not just do it: when you find a manual workaround where the system has a native feature, we want you to say so and fix it.

• Process vendor invoices for raw materials, packaging components, equipment, freight, and general operating costs.
• Perform three-way matching of invoices against purchase orders and receiving reports, and resolve discrepancies with purchasing and receiving before anything is entered.
• Prepare and execute weekly and monthly payment runs via ACH, wire, and check.
• Reconcile vendor statements and clear outstanding balances.
• Maintain accurate vendor files, including W-9s, tax IDs, and payment terms.
• Support month-end close with AP accruals and related journal entries.
• Support annual 1099 filing and compliance with company policy and applicable tax and reporting regulations, with the Controller.

• Generate and issue accurate customer invoices from shipments, sales orders, and service agreements.
• Post and apply customer payments (check, ACH, wire, credit card) to open invoices.
• Monitor aging, follow up on past-due accounts, and escalates early rather than late.
• Coordinate with sales and customer service on billing issues, credits, and disputes; process credit memos, returns, and chargebacks.
• Reconcile customer accounts and keep records clean in Net Suite.
• Support collections strategy and customer credit review in an industry where counter party diligence genuinely matters.

• Participate in month-end close: reconciliations, journal entries, and support to the Controller on bank reconciliation.
• Prepare AP and AR reporting for leadership - aging summaries, payment schedules, and inputs to the weekly cash forecast.
• Support internal and external audits with clean, retrievable documentation.
• Find and fix the manual workarounds. If a process runs on a spreadsheet that the ERP could handle natively, propose the better way and build it.

• Day 30: You have run a full AP cycle and a full AR cycle, met purchasing, receiving, and customer service, and mapped how work actually flows into your queue.
• Day 60: Vendor and customer accounts are reconciled, aging is trending the right direction, and you have brought us your first process improvement.
• Day 90: The unapplied prepayment…