Manager, Accounting

As our Accounting Manager you will manage a small team, lead the month-end and year-end close process, payroll reporting, bank reconciliations, accounts payable and accounts receivable, and assist with postings to the general ledger. You will also manage communication with the international outsourcing teams and coordinate closing activities.

Your primary Duties

• Lead the finance accounting team in all accounting strategies
• Process month-end and year-end close process
• Follow proper accounting procedures to reach financial objectives
• Post month end journal entries
• Provide monthly reporting comparing actual results with budgeted projections
• Assist in the process of developing budgets
• Perform company financial audits
• Monitor and analyze financial accounting data
• Make recommendations to business stakeholders
• Provide advanced reporting to leadership as needed
• Oversee Bank reconciliations
• Manage accounts receivable and accounts payable activity with international outsourcing teams

Qualifications & Requirements

• Must be PC proficient with strong experience with Microsoft Excel, and Word.
• Able to thrive in a fast -pace setting
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal, supervisory and customer service skills required
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure and meet deadlines required
• Experience with NetSuite or other large automated accounting system preferred

• The marginal functions of this position have not been included. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties to be performed. An employee will be required to follow any other job-related duties required by the manager.

Additional Skills (training provided)

• HAZMAT Training
• OSHA Training
• RCRA training
• Contingency Plan training
• General lab safety training
• POLARIS Quality System Training

Safety Requirements

• OSHA laws require the use of the following Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when performing work duties that have the potential of risk to your health or safety. At POLARIS Laboratories, when going through the Laboratory it is required that you wear eye protection.
• Team members will be trained in the proper use and care of assigned PPE. POLARIS Laboratories provides the required PPE. It is your responsibility to report defective, damaged or lost PPE, or equipment that does not fit properly, to your Manager.
• To ensure safety throughout the facility, all employees are required to maintain up to date HAZMAT, OSHA, RCRA, Methylene Chloride, and General Laboratory Safety training as defined within the POLARIS Quality System.