Accounting Manager

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About Us

The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST) is a personal care company dedicated to creating cleanly-formulated and sustainably-designed products spanning categories across diapers, wipes, baby personal care, beauty, apparel, household care and wellness. Launched in 2012, the Company is on a mission to challenge ingredients, ideals, and industries through the power of the Honest brand, the Honest team, and the Honest Standard. For more information about the Honest Standard and the Company, please visit www.honest.com.

Our Mission

We're on a mission to empower people to live happy, healthy lives. We're a wellness brand with values rooted in consciousness, community, transparency, and design. Every day and in every way, we hold ourselves to an Honest standard. We believe that it is our responsibility to do our part to help create a healthy and sustainable future for all. 

The Role

The Honest Company has kicked off a search for an Accounting Manager! We’re looking for a highly-organized, accountable (pun intended) team player who operates with efficiency, urgency, and discipline. This role is a great opportunity for current Senior Accountants with leadership ambitions to step into a management role with guidance and support.

What you’ll do:

• Direct and oversee all accounting, reporting and analysis related to inventory, gross margin, and weighted average costs
• Prepare and review monthly journal entries related to inventory and cost of goods sold, accruals for inventory in transit and amortization of capitalized overhead
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams like operations, logistics, sourcing, and sales to ensure accurate financial reporting
• In conjunction with the monthly financial close, ensure that inventory is properly valued and appropriately reserved under US GAAP (including an evaluation of slow moving, excess and obsolete inventories), liabilities related to inventory purchases are properly stated, gross margins are accurate and any significant variances between budgeted and actual margins are investigated and explained to management
• Provide support in other general accounting areas as needed, including prepaid expenses, accruals, and other GL responsibilities to ensure overall accuracy and completeness of the financial statements
• Support quarterly reviews and year-end audit by preparing schedules that support capitalized overhead and excess and obsolescence reserves
• Participate in month-end close deliverables and coordinate with Finance team on variance analysis
• Act as primary finance liaison in physical inventory counts, review monthly cycle count results, and investigate variances as needed
• Prepare and/or review monthly reconciliations for all inventory related accounts
• Oversee work of Staff Accountants and Senior Accountants to ensure close and audit timelines are met
• Work with team to identify and create efficiencies in general accounting functions
• Document key controls and processes and work with SOX team to perform periodic testing of inventory transactions
• Create and/or prepare ad hoc reports for senior management
• Manage and prioritize job tasks in order to meet strict deadlines
• Encourage a teamwork mentality and establish individual goals/objectives

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, business or finance
• 6+ years of accounting experience
• Experience leading or mentoring others (formal supervisory experience a plus but not required)
• Solid understanding of US GAAP, general accounting processes and internal controls, and financial analysis tools and techniques
• Proficient in Excel formulas and pivot tables; and experience with top tier ERP and related reporting applications
• Advanced analytical problem solving skills
• Strong team player who works well in a in a fast paced, changing environment

Bonus points for:

• Public accounting experience
• CPA (or working towards it) is strongly preferred
• Experience in a public company environment
• Experience with JD Edwards
• Supervisory experience 

Compensation

The pay range for this role is $122,000 - $152,000. Actual compensation is based on many factors including but not limited to depth of experience, skill level, ability, knowledge, education, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. 

The total rewards package for this position may also include base, annual incentive plan, benefits, retirement plan, equity, and Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Benefits & Perks

At Honest, we’re all about investing in our people. We’re dedicated to providing a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and balance. Check out our benefits and perks we offer to help you thrive both in and out of the office:

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness 🏥: We’ve got you covered with top-tier health, dental, and vision plans to keep you and your family feeling great.
• 401k with Company Match 💰: Your future matters to us. We match your 401k contributions to help you secure a strong financial future.
• Wellness & Fitness 💪: Stay healthy with a monthly fitness reimbursement and, for those in our Playa Vista office, an onsite gym to keep you active and energized.
• Work-Life Balance ⚖️: We value your time. We provide a generous and flexible vacation policy to relax, recharge, and spend time on what matters most.
• Family-Friendly Leave 👶: Growing your family? We offer generous maternity and paternity leave to support you during this exciting journey.
• Education Reimbursement 🎓: We’re committed to your growth—whether it’s for professional development or a new passion, we offer education reimbursement to help you learn and level up.
• Pet Insurance 🐾: We love your furry family members too! Our pet insurance ensures your pets are taken care of, because they’re part of the family.
• Employee Discounts 🛍️: Treat yourself and your loved ones to Honest products with exclusive employee discounts.

California Privacy Rights Notice for Californian Job Applicants and Prospective Talent

Effective Date: January 1, 2020

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), The Honest Company, Inc. (“Honest” or “us” or “we”) is required to inform California residents who are our job applicants or prospective talent (together “job applicants” or “you”) about the categories of personal information we may collect about you and the purposes for which we use this information.  Click here if you are a California resident to read disclosures required by the CCPA. Note this notice applies only to personal information that is subject to the CCPA. 

Categories of Personal Information We Collect. We may collect the following categories of personal information about our job applicants, who are California residents:

• Name
• Signature
• Social Security Number
• Email and mailing address
• Telephone number
• Education
• Employment history

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• Processing evaluating your application to determine your qualifications for the role to which you’ve applied, and communicating with you about your application, including to check references or your background, and communicate with you about other jobs that may interest you.
• Other business purposes as identified in the CCPA, which include:
• Auditing related to our interactions with you; 
• Legal compliance
• Detecting and protecting against security incidents, fraud, and illegal activity;
• Debugging;
• Performing services for us, such as analytics;
• Internal research for technological improvement; and
• Internal operations.

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