Senior Accountant / Financial Analyst

Our St. Louis based client is a small, privately owned manufacturer. They are renowned for their employee-centric culture and high retention rate. This type of opportunity is ideal for someone that can provide decision-making support to the business, lead the cost accounting process, and help facilitate the Company’s lean transformation.

Responsibilities

• Proactively supports the Company’s values, principles, and behaviors: Courage, One Team, Always Learning and Improving, We Own It, Strong Desire to Help Others and Humility.
• Serves as an analytical partner to our value streams, providing effective analysis to optimize decision making and improve Company’s financial and operational results.
• Develops and maintains value stream financial statements and related analyses.
• Develops and maintains product and job costs, proactive evaluation of the current costing process, and provides analysis and insight to decision makers.
• Reviews daily reports to identify potential costing issues and coordinates any necessary corrective action.
• Performs month-end closing duties for the US operations, general ledger reconciliation and analysis, and processes improvements.
• Ensures accurate and timely closure of job orders and related cost accounting processes.
• Analyzes and interprets financial and operational results, working closely with the Controller and the CFO.
• Assists with the physical inventory process, identifying areas of process improvements.
• Manages fixed assets, including CIP, additions, disposals, depreciation, reconciliations, and reviews.
• Other duties as prudent or assigned.

Requirements

• BS in Accounting
• At least 5+ years accounting experience
• Prior experience with general ledger analysis, month end close processing, financial statement preparation, and financial analysis.
• Substantial experience in utilizing ERP, accounting, and Excel software.
• LEAN accounting and manufacturing experience a plus
• Proven utilization of critical thinking skills