Job Description

Description

Job Title: Accounting Manager

Department: Accounting/Finance

Reports to: Controller

FLSA Status: Exempt

SUMMARY: The Accounting Manager is responsible for overseeing the accounts receivable function, overseeing accounting staff, maintaining accounting records, and producing periodic and ad-hoc financial reports.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following: 

• Understands and follows established financial policies, procedures, controls, and reporting systems
• Prepares work timely with a high degree of accuracy and thoughtfulness
• Directs accounts receivable and accounting staff
• Collaborates with personnel outside of accounting on a regular basis
• Proactively identifies issues and proposes solutions
• Protects assets and mitigates risks by practicing internal controls
• Supports internal and external audits for responsible areas
• Regularly collects, analyzes, and summarizes information and trends and reports to management
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies
• Protects operations by keeping financial information and plans confidential
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related tasks as needed

Requirements

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:  

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting required
• Management experience required
• Internal control experience required, Sarbanes-Oxley experience preferred
• CPA preferred
• Manufacturing company experience preferred
• Public accounting auditing experience preferred

CRITICAL COMPETENCIES:

• Sense of ownership and pride in your performance and its impact on company’s success
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
• Well organized
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• High-level financial reporting and analysis
• Developing financial reviews
• Working closely with management or executive teams to share reports and analysis findings

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to respond to common inquiries from members of the business community. Ability to effectively present information to personnel of all level employees.

REASONING ABILITY: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee may be asked to occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus. 

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and risk of electric shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.