The Senior Accountant will play a key role in overseeing the financial activities of our company, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and efficiency across all accounting functions. Reporting to the Controller, this position requires a detail-oriented professional with strong analytical skills and the ability to manage complex financial data for multiple locations.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Reporting & Analysis:
- Prepare and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements for accuracy and compliance with GAAP.
- Consolidate financial data from all 11 locations, ensuring accurate and timely reporting.
- Assist in the preparation of annual budgets and forecasts and monitor performance against budgets.
- Provide detailed variance analysis and financial insights to senior management.
General Accounting:
- Oversee and manage the general ledger, ensuring all transactions are recorded accurately.
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts, including cash, inventory, and fixed assets.
- Manage the month-end and year-end close processes to ensure timely financial reporting.
- Review and approve journal entries and account reconciliations.
Compliance & Audit:
- Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, including GAAP and company policies.
- Prepare documentation and support external audits, responding to audit inquiries as needed.
- Maintain and enforce internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure the accuracy of financial information.
Multi-Location Oversight:
- Collaborate with accounting staff at each location to ensure consistency and accuracy in financial reporting.
- Provide guidance and support to location managers on financial matters, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Monitor and manage inter-company transactions, ensuring proper documentation and reconciliation.
Tax & Regulatory Filings:
- Assist with the preparation of federal, state, and local tax filings.
- Ensure timely and accurate filing of all regulatory reports and tax returns.
Process Improvement:
- Identify opportunities to streamline accounting processes and improve efficiency.
- Implement best practices in financial management and reporting.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. CPA or CMA certification is preferred but not required.
- Experience: At least 5-7 years of progressive accounting experience, with a focus on multi-location or multi-entity organizations. Experience in a company with similar revenue size is a plus.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in accounting software (e.g., QuickBooks, NetSuite) and Microsoft Excel. Strong understanding of GAAP and financial reporting standards.
- Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze complex financial data and provide actionable insights.
- Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
- Attention to Detail: High level of accuracy and attention to detail, especially in financial reporting and reconciliations.
- Leadership: Ability to mentor and guide junior accounting staff, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
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What We Do
Building Industry Partners (“BIP”) is the leading private equity investment firm focused on the U.S. building industry. Founded by Matt Ogden in 2008, BIP is headquartered in Boston, with operating partners and advisors across the U.S.
Our purpose is to build exceptional and enduring businesses, generate world class investment returns, and contribute to elevating the building industry and its workforce through people-focused investment & business principles.
We help to build exceptional businesses, to realize the entrepreneurial visions of the industry's rising stars, and to increase shared prosperity amongst shareholders, management, and our broader workforce through broad-based employee ownership.
Over the past decade, BIP is proud to have been part of building some of the fastest growing and most dynamic businesses in the U.S. building industry’s middle market, including U.S. LBM Holdings, Kodiak Building Partners, Homewood Holdings, and U.S. Fence Solutions/Binford Supply.
