Fondomonte Arizona is recruiting for an Assistant Finance Manager/Farm Accounting for our Goodyear, Arizona office. The Assistant Finance Manager will have a solid working knowledge of General Accounting and strong financial analysis skills. The Assistant Finance Manager will support the Finance Team by managing financial reports, performing account reconciliations, maintaining the general ledger, preparing tax returns, assisting with the month-end closing process, audit preparations, and performing other accounting duties as assigned. 

We have a vertically integrated farming operation that includes growing, harvesting, and exporting of forage products.

Starting Salary of $85,000 per year plus bonus potential DOQ

This is an in-office position Monday - Friday 7:00-4:00

Responsibilities

• Assist with managing the month-end closing process and handling cash flow and internal financial reporting
• Provide management with accurate, reliable, and timely financial and management information regularly, in coordination with the location finance team and HO Finance team.
• Gather, consolidate, prepare, and interpret overseas farming operational KPIs/results. Perform the tasks of analyzing account variance and preparing a monthly business process review
• Coordinate with the operations team to finalize relevant & regular farming-related operational reports to ensure that information contained therein are realistic, fair and within expectations
• Coordinate with the operations team to provide, analyze, and submit Arable consolidated forecasts to help management better understand the current positions and trends, both financial and operational.
• Coordinate with the location finance team to provide, analyze, justify, and submit Arable annual budget to be used as a guide and basis for future operational performance evaluation.
• Assist in performing; end-to-end preparation of Withholding tax, Value-added tax, Income tax, and other tax returns and it’s supporting documents/schedules in compliance to Government agencies
• Assist with external and internal financial audits and reviews.
• To assist in the management of all accounting procedures and systems used by the organization
• To assist in the smooth running of the team and contribute to the training and development of the team
• Managing control of fixed assets through the company’s policies, assuring assets are commissioned, tagged, recorded, and verified as per set timetable.
• Provide relevant reporting and updates on the inventories as maintained and recorded within SAP and ARM’s systems. Coordinating and reconciling stock counts for inventories as required.
• Perform other duties as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience, (preferably in a finance-led discipline but not essential)
• Strong knowledge of general accounting 
• A proactive approach to driving insight, staying up to date with business trends, and ability to make connections across the segment
• Works independently with the ability to overcome major obstacles and recognize early when issues should be escalated
• Effectively communicates with all levels of technical and non-technical personnel, must possess the ability to simplify complex issues into simple messages
• Requires strong organizational, team-building, coaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to analyze and solve problems using learned techniques and tools with a solution-focused mindset.
• Analytical and statistical examination skills & the ability to coach this out of junior team members
• Ability to utilize judgment in the decision-making process and decisions related to job tasks
•  Ability to identify, address, and resolve employee-related issues
• Strong demonstrated proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel & MS Office to include Pivot tables
• SAP ERP system experience