Position Summary:
The Senior Accountant's responsibilities include financial reporting, analysis, budgeting, and forecasting. The Senior Accountant will be an integral part of the finance team and provide a wide range of experience in financial analysis, forecasting, budgeting, finance, accounting, and internal controls.
Essential Functions:
· Assist the accounting team with the financial close process, and monthly reporting and analysis
· Provide margin analysis across multiple jobs & product lines to assess areas of risk and opportunities
· Assist with developing efficiencies and standardization of processes/new systems
· Prepare and analyze actual financial results with appropriate comparison to historical performance and budget
· Monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends and analyzing causes of unexpected variance
· Assist in the preparation of month-end reporting and other various presentations
· Assist with budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analyzing efforts
· Assist with the development of modeling tools for month-end, forecasts, and budgets
· Assist with the preparation of periodic cash flows, business activity reports, and financial position forecasts
· Assist with the development and maintenance of financial models used to analyze and support strategic initiatives
· Prepare and analyze complex financial and operational data and provide accurate and timely financial recommendations for decision-making purposes
· Analyze and interpret information to develop actionable recommendations that impact the business
· Understand knowledge of current internal and external trends and manage data to gain insights to eliminate waste and increase operating performance
· Provide insights and recommendations on cash flow, cost identification and allocation, and risk management
· Ensure accuracy and timely completion of all ad-hoc analyses and reports, metrics, and dashboards
· Assist with documenting processes and procedures
· Other duties as assigned
Knowledge and Critical Skills/Expertise:
· Familiarity with the use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
· Intermediate / Advanced Excel competency is required
· Excellent communication and organization skills
· Able to maintain a high degree of confidentiality
· Proactive with the ability to multi-task and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
· Delivers quality results with accuracy
· Goal-oriented, high-energy self-starter
· Build relationships & collaborate across multiple teams.
· Ability to apply accounting principles to the maintenance of all Accounts and Finance records
· Ability to make involved and varied arithmetic computations rapidly and accurately
· Able to tabulate statistical data and compile necessary reports
WORK ENVIRONMENT
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.
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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and reach with hands and arms.
Environmental Safety Requirements:
Safety Awareness
· All safety-related training is provided and tracked by the EHS Director
· Job-specific training modules deemed necessary by the employee’s Manager or Director will be required of all employees on an ongoing basis
· OTHER DUTIES
· Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.