Senior Accountant

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Howell, MI
Senior level
Other • Transportation • Energy
The Role
The Senior Accountant will be responsible for managing month-end close activities, providing financial decision support, leading budgeting and forecasting activities, ensuring compliance with GAAP and corporate policies, and preparing financial reports for leadership.
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Job Requirements

Job Responsibilities:

  • Perform the month-end close activities, ensuring all costs are properly and timely recorded, posting journal entries, financial reports preparation according to corporate deadlines and standards
  • Provide day-to-day business decision support to operations on Accounting and Finance topics.
  • Drive working capital improvements in inventory to strengthen cash position for the organization
  • Assist with the periodic and annual standard cost roll process ensuring that all material costs are updated properly and ensuring that labor and overhead costs are appropriately allocated to products
  • Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and procedures in conjunction with corporate policies and procedures
  • Protects assets by establishing, maintaining, monitoring and enforcing internal controls
  • Prepare month financial reporting package and EBITDA walks
  • Presents Financial Reports to Senior Leadership and local management team
  • Partners with operations to achieve budget objectives through tracking key performance indicators and initiate corrective actions
  • Leads forecasting and budgeting activities, in partnership with the ETC NA Controller
  • Ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Sarbanes-Oxley, and corporate policies and procedures
  • Performs other duties as assigned by the ETC NA Controller and management team

Qualifications and Skills:

  • Communicates effectively and has exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Excels at multi-tasking, organization, and time management
  • Develop strong working relationships with colleagues across all functions
  • Strong research, analytical and modeling skills, experience with financial statement analysis, accounting process / procedures and internal controls
  • Strong Excel skills including data analysis and forward-looking modeling
  • Ability to work independently in a remote environment
  • Working knowledge of Financial ERP systems, and Production Operating systems
  • Consistently operates at the highest level of integrity, never compromising the teams’ ethical standards
  • Travel: 10%

Education and Experience Requirements:

  • BS/BA in Finance, Accounting, or related major is required
  • CPA/CMA and or MBA preferred
  • At least 7 years in progressive accounting & finance roles
  • Knowledge of SAP and Syspro ERP Systems
  • Experience in a manufacturing environment preferred

Top Skills

Accounting
Excel
Finance
Financial Erp Systems
SAP
Syspro Erp Systems
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The Company
HQ: Irving, TX
915 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

Alkegen is a specialty materials leader serving mission-critical systems that the world is focused on for the future, including: battery technologies, electric vehicles, filtration media, and specialty insulation materials that enable customers to reduce fossil fuel consumption, save energy, and live greener.

We help people breathe easier, live greener, and go further than ever before.

Our experience speaks for itself. Bringing together two of the world’s leaders in specialty materials, Unifrax and Lydall, Alkegen is a leader in innovation. We are a vertically integrated manufacturer with the global reach and talent to solve your most demanding applications.

With 60 manufacturing facilities and 9,000+ highly skilled employees located around the world, we can solve any challenge.

Dedicated to sustainability and human health, we are uniquely positioned to help customers impact the environment in meaningful ways.

We are Alkegen.

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