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Title: Senior Accountant
Location: Fort Mill, SC (Greater Charlotte Metro) — 100% Onsite
Company: McClancy Food & Flavors
Target Start: December 15–16
Duration: Interim with strong potential to convert to permanent in Q1
About The Company
We are working with a long-established manufacturer undergoing strategic transformation following a recent private equity acquisition. The business is transitioning from a historically family-operated structure to a more rigorous, data-driven, and audit-ready finance environment, facing multiple concurrent initiatives including increased reporting requirements, year-end preparation, and a future ERP upgrade.
Position Overview
Due to rapid organizational change and a critical resource gap, the company seeks an experienced, highly self-sufficient Senior Accountant to immediately support month-end close, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset processes, and recurring reporting. The successful candidate will work side-by-side with the Head of Finance and be instrumental in stabilizing daily accounting operations during this period of growth and modernization.
This role requires strong independence, speed, and comfort navigating legacy ERP systems with limited handholding.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Fort Mill, SC (Greater Charlotte Metro) — 100% Onsite
Company: McClancy Food & Flavors
Target Start: December 15–16
Duration: Interim with strong potential to convert to permanent in Q1
About The Company
We are working with a long-established manufacturer undergoing strategic transformation following a recent private equity acquisition. The business is transitioning from a historically family-operated structure to a more rigorous, data-driven, and audit-ready finance environment, facing multiple concurrent initiatives including increased reporting requirements, year-end preparation, and a future ERP upgrade.
Position Overview
Due to rapid organizational change and a critical resource gap, the company seeks an experienced, highly self-sufficient Senior Accountant to immediately support month-end close, bank and balance sheet reconciliations, fixed asset processes, and recurring reporting. The successful candidate will work side-by-side with the Head of Finance and be instrumental in stabilizing daily accounting operations during this period of growth and modernization.
This role requires strong independence, speed, and comfort navigating legacy ERP systems with limited handholding.
Key Responsibilities
- Daily reconciliation of two bank accounts and related GL activity
- Prepare and manage fixed asset schedules, prepaid roll-forwards, and amortization
- Download, clean, pivot, and map expense data (Amex / Truist / expense tools)
- Support month-end close, balance sheet reconciliations, and reporting deliverables
- Upload processed data and support transactional accuracy within Microsoft NAV/NA ERP
- Collaborate directly with the Head of Finance to ensure continuity and operational control during transformative enterprise initiatives
- Bank Reconciliations – 25%
- Fixed Assets / Prepaids – 20%
- Expense Data Downloads Uploads – 25%
- Month-End Close / Reconciliations – 30%
- 4–6 years of corporate accounting experience (or equivalent hands-on)
- Proven experience handling month-end close from start to finish
- Intermediate–advanced Excel skills (VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, SUMIF)
- Ability to learn and navigate legacy ERP systems with minimal training
- Demonstrated success working independently in lean teams
- Experience in a private equity-backed, high-growth, or transformation environment
- Manufacturing / food & beverage / industrial industry exposure
- System implementation or ERP upgrade involvement (future program planned)
- Analytical, curious, proactive, and confident challenging outdated practices
- Thrives in fast change and ambiguity
- Comfortable being the “go-to” resource with high visibility
- Hands-on, practical, and highly resourceful problem-solver
Salary : $85,000 - $95,000