What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Accountant position at Value Windows & Doors?
About The Role
The Senior Accountant holds a crucial role in upholding the financial integrity of a dynamic manufacturing and distribution organization operating with multiple subsidiaries. This multifaceted position encompasses a spectrum of duties, including reconciling account balances, ensuring precision in the preparation of financial reporting, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams, and actively contributing to the month-end closing, year-end closing, as well as annual financial audit. Performs other related duties as assigned.
What You’ll Do
Reconciliation and Balancing:
You’ll play a key role in strengthening customer trust by ensuring high‑quality service outcomes and leading a team committed to excellence. This is a great opportunity for a proactive leader who enjoys solving problems, developing people, and improving processes.
Additional Information:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
You are welcome to visit our website: www.valuewds.com
The Senior Accountant holds a crucial role in upholding the financial integrity of a dynamic manufacturing and distribution organization operating with multiple subsidiaries. This multifaceted position encompasses a spectrum of duties, including reconciling account balances, ensuring precision in the preparation of financial reporting, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams, and actively contributing to the month-end closing, year-end closing, as well as annual financial audit. Performs other related duties as assigned.
What You’ll Do
Reconciliation and Balancing:
- Conduct balance sheet reconciliations on each entity level and the consolidated level, diligently addressing any discrepancies in assets, liabilities, and equity accounts.
- Execute reclassification entries with precision and internal notes, including current and long-term liabilities, ROU balances, and monthly lease transactions.
- Reconcile bank accounts and credit card statements to ensure accuracy and data integrity.
- Prepare documentation for unusual items and exceptions in reconciliations.
- Prepare estimates, amortizations, and significant judgments financial records; Accounts Receivable Allowances, Inventory allowances, Warranty Claims, Rebates, Accruals, Deferrals, Prepaids.
- Record approved inventory adjustments, transfers, and revaluation reports.
- Conduct balance sheet reconciliations on each entity level and the consolidated level, diligently addressing any discrepancies in assets, liabilities, and equity accounts.
- Execute reclassification entries with precision and internal notes, including current and long-term liabilities, ROU balances, and monthly lease transactions.
- Reconcile bank accounts and credit card statements to ensure accuracy and data integrity.
- Prepare documentation for unusual items and exceptions in reconciliations.
- Prepare estimates, amortizations, and significant judgments financial records; Accounts Receivable Allowances, Inventory allowances, Warranty Claims, Rebates, Accruals, Deferrals, Prepaids.
- Record approved inventory adjustments, transfers, and revaluation reports.
- Maintaining the Fixed Assets ledger, ensure detailed record-keeping and timely updates to the status of each asset.
- Management of asset-related updates and meticulously recording journal entries for various asset transactions such as acquisitions, disposals, transfers, exchanges, leases, depreciations, amortizations, and trade-ins.
- Stay on top of Fixed Assets inventory, track discrepancies, and publish monthly asset status report for internal review.
- Review weekly and monthly A/R, customer deposits, vendor prepayments, and A/P reports, and ensure seamless reconciliation with the general ledger.
- Correct reporting of AR (Accounts Receivable) and AP (Accounts Payable) aging schedules.
- Maintains accuracy of COA coding for all GL entries including expenses, liabilities, and assets in A/P.
- Assist with AP, AR, and banking transactions, record keeping, or entries when needed.
- Record account transfers, and ZBA transactions.
- Attain approval and record missing ledger transactions while coordinating with AP and AR staff.
- Credit card transactions coding and classification.
- Play a pivotal role in meticulously preparing entities and consolidated financial statements and budget reports as per predetermined schedules by the Controller.
- Recording and reconciling the intercompany elimination entries, journals, balances, and reports.
- Provide integral support during the month-end close process, alongside adeptly executing corresponding journal entries.
- Offer essential assistance during both internal and external audits, thereby actively contributing to the meticulous process of financial and management reporting.
- Facilitate transaction processing by fostering effective collaboration with cross-departmental teams, thereby ensuring the fluidity of financial operations.
- Engage in astute division profitability analysis and generate insightful monthly job analysis reports that are informative for strategic decision-making.
- Skillfully manage foreign exchange transactions transacted by the Treasury department, if any, and properly record and report in accounting books.
- Collaborate closely with the cost accountant to generate comprehensive reports related to Work in Progress (WIP), variance costing, cost center reports, product segment reports and others.
- Ensure the accuracy and integrity of data in these reports to provide valuable insights into manufacturing costs, breakeven points, flow-through, and profitability.
- Prepare financial reports, perform account reconciliations, maintain the general ledger, assist with audit preparations, and execute other accounting duties as assigned.
- Execute core accounting functions and programs related to the monthly closing process, WIP schedules and account reconciliations.
- GL accounts maintenance, creation, and update.
- Investigate and resolve audit findings, account discrepancies, and issues of non-compliance.
- Extract and analyze sales, cost data, and provide operational insights to the management team.
- Translate payroll data and employee benefits to GL journal entries.
- Intercompany transaction entries; meticulously record intercompany eliminating entries and maintain oversight over intercompany transfers, and due to / due from balances.
- Coordinate external audits and tax-related activities with the company's CPA firm.
- Offer integral support to the accounting department, and proactively nurture junior team members through mentorship.
- Provide support in critical processes of budgeting and forecasting for each plant and each department.
- Leverage financial acumen to contribute to the creation of accurate and insightful budget reports, enabling strategic decision-making for the organization's financial future.
- Investigate and document significant variances from the budget and prior periods.
- Employ an analytical mindset to conduct variance analysis, and promptly address and rectify transactions with incorrect cutoff periods, ensuring data integrity.
- Employ effective communication skills to engage with customers and vendors, and proactively resolve intricate accounting matters.
- 6 years of relevant GL / Senior Accountant or Technical Accountant work experience required.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related field required.
- Oracle NetSuite experience / proficiency.
- Command of MS Excel, including advanced skills in VLOOKUP and Pivot Tables.
- Profound knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Adeptness in navigating financial accounting statements and a comprehensive understanding of financial consolidation and eliminations.
- Technical accounting and GL reconciliation skills.
- Expertise in general ledger functions, able to handle both month-end and year-end closing processes independently.
You’ll play a key role in strengthening customer trust by ensuring high‑quality service outcomes and leading a team committed to excellence. This is a great opportunity for a proactive leader who enjoys solving problems, developing people, and improving processes.
Additional Information:
We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Paid time Off (PTO)
- Company Paid Holidays
- Employee Discount to company products
You are welcome to visit our website: www.valuewds.com
Salary : $90,000 - $110,000