Overview

The Senior Accountant plays a key role in supporting financial operations within a dynamic manufacturing environment. This position is a key leader of month-end close activities, performing detailed variance analysis, driving process improvements, and partnering cross-functionally to enhance operational efficiency and financial performance. The ideal candidate brings 3+ years of progressive accounting experience in a large-scale manufacturing setting, with a strong technical and analytical mindset and a focus on continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Support and actively participate in the monthly financial close process, including preparing/reviewing journal entries, closing various month-end ERP modules, and performing balance sheet reconciliations
• Play a key role in initiatives to reduce the duration of the month-end close process through process improvements and increased efficiency
• Validate accrual amounts vs. spend and recommend quarterly true-up adjustments
• Track, report, and analyze plant cost factors such as labor, overhead, and freight
• Perform monthly fluctuation analysis, manufacturing cost variance analysis, and price variance analysis
• Assist with physical inventory and cycle counting processes as appropriate.
• Audit and maintain fixed asset schedules; Works with project owners to ensure timely capitalization of equipment placed in service
• Validate capital spending with project owners to ensure accurate monthly reporting and assist with facilitating the quarterly capital review meetings
• Provide mentorship and guidance to other accounting staff to support team development and technical growth

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Ensure the integrity of the financial information generated
• Help to implement consistency and process improvements in inventory control

• Performs product line profitability analysis
• Analyze and review bills of material to ensure accurate product costing

• Occasionally act as a backup for Accounts Receivable

• Assist with tracking and reporting plant scrap and inventory material usage variances
• Assist with Book-to-Perpetual and Book-to-Physical variance analysis and root cause analysis

• Assist in performing post capital project audits to verify savings that are being realized
• Assist with preparing monthly and quarterly manufacturing census reports.
• Assist in the preparation of various reporting spreadsheets for tax or other government agencies
• Help ensure adherence to Hytrol’s accounting/internal control procedures.
• Perform special studies and ad-hoc analyses under the request and supervision of management

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of process controls in a manufacturing environment
• Ability to work in a team environment across all levels of the organization is essential
• Strong analytical, organizational, time management, and multi-tasking skills
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel are a must, and experience in other data analytics software is a plus
• The financial nature and scope of responsibilities require any successful candidate for this role to be a person who is detail-oriented

Education

This position requires a bachelor's degree in a related area, such as finance, accounting, business administration, economics, statistics, or mathematics.