Accounting Manager

Gummy Works is dedicated to “manufacturing perfection, one gummy at a time,” delivering high-quality, delicious, and nutritious gummy vitamins that support customer health and wellbeing. As gummy specialists, the company focuses on using premium ingredients and reliable production methods to create effective, enjoyable products. Gummy Works continuously innovates its manufacturing processes to improve product consistency, safety, and performance. The team is also committed to exceptional customer service, ensuring that every product and interaction reflects their standards of quality and care.

The Accounting Manager leads the day-to-day accounting operations of a growing contract manufacturing business and ensures the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of the company’s financial records. This role owns the monthly close, general ledger, billing, accounts receivable, credit and collections, accounts payable oversight, inventory accounting, manufacturing cost accounting, and related financial controls. The position is also a key finance support in the company’s migration from Quick Books to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, with responsibility for data validation, configuration support, and post-implementation stabilization across finance-related modules.

• Lead daily accounting operations and establish deadlines, review standards, and service expectations across the accounting function.
• Supervise, train, and develop accounting staff; review work product, provide coaching, and ensure appropriate cross-training and coverage for critical processes.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Customer Service and Sales to resolve transaction issues and improve end-to-end processes.
• Maintain accounting policies, standard operating procedures, and approval matrices that support segregation of duties and scalable growth.
• Own the full monthly, quarterly, and year-end close process, including the close calendar, task assignments, review checkpoints, and timely escalation of issues.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, prepaid expenses, fixed assets and depreciation, intercompany activity, payroll entries, and other supporting schedules.
• Ensure all completed production orders, shipments, receipts, inventory adjustments, and customer invoices are recorded in the appropriate accounting period.
• Prepare monthly financial statements and management reporting packages, including variance analysis, working-capital metrics, and explanations of business drivers.
• Drive continuous improvement in close speed, accuracy, documentation, and analytical quality.
• Support the Controller with budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow planning, lender reporting, tax filings, and special projects.
• Own inventory accounting for raw materials, work in process, finished goods, packaging, and supplies across warehouses and production locations.
• Review production orders, bills of material, routings, labor and overhead absorption, subcontracting costs, scrap, yield, rework, and purchase price and production variances.
• Maintain and periodically review standard costs, landed-cost assumptions, overhead rates, and item costing inputs in partnership with Operations and Supply Chain.
• Reconcile inventory subledgers to the general ledger; investigate negative inventory, unusual adjustments, aged or slow-moving items, and margin anomalies.
• Coordinate cycle counts and physical inventories, validate count results, review adjustments, and strengthen inventory safeguarding controls.
• Oversee timely and accurate customer billing, including deposits, customer-specific pricing, freight, pass-through charges, and other contract terms.
• Maintain customer deposit schedules and ensure deposits,…