Senior Financial Accountant

Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.
Why work for Dawn Foods?
PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.
Why should you apply? We invest in you!

• Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
• Competitive Pay
• 401(K) + company match
• 10 Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Professional training
• Family-owned business over 100 years in service
• An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce.

Job Purpose and Overview
Under limited supervision, the Senior Financial Accountant is responsible for supporting the monthly close process, conducting reviews, and performing general ledger account reconciliations, as well as preparing monthly financial statements. They are tasked with researching complex reconciling items and providing financial analyses to assess the impact of various transactions.
This is a hybrid position reporting to the home office location in Jackson, Michigan. The successful candidate for this role will be expected to work on-site for a minimum of 1 day per week, and on an as needed basis with up to 10% travel.
What will you do as a Senior Financial Accountant at Dawn Foods?

• Ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and timeliness of all financial data.
• Completes advanced month end close responsibilities and monthly balance sheet account reconciliations, proactively bringing resolution to reconciling items.
• Ability to work closely with our international finance teams to ensure appropriate consolidation, provide transactional accounting guidance when needed, and assist/lead special projects to improve the efficiency and accuracy of our processes and controls.
• Position may assist in technical reviews of company transactions for appropriate accounting treatment. The ability to research, comprehend, and apply these accounting standards and/or accounting standards updates is important for this role.
• Supports the monthly and annual preparation of financial statements for external reporting.
• Supports the documentation and maintenance of accounting policies and procedures.
• Responds to financial inquiries by gathering, analyzing, summarizing, and interpreting data.
• Performs analyses that are complex and varied in nature to present solutions and results for Dawn's most highly complex problems, projects, and initiatives.
• Takes initiative and executes independently, while seeking supervisor support when necessary to achieve task, department, or Company objectives.
• Demonstrate the "Dawn Values" of Team Dawn and support the Dawn Circle of Excellence.
• Other duties as assigned.

What Does It Take to be a Senior Financial Accountant at Dawn Foods?
Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.

• Requires a bachelor's degree in accounting or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years' experience in both accounting and financial analysis is required.
• Other certifications or advanced degrees (CPA, MBA, etc.) preferred but not required.
• SAP information system or Oracle EPM Financial Consolidation software experience highly preferred but not required.
• A comprehensive working knowledge of accounting practices, policies, and procedures in compliance with GAAP, sound internal controls and close software preferred.
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of leadership throughout Dawn. This position must be seen by other Team Members as a knowledgeable business partner.

Physical Demands & Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Normal setting for this job is: office setting or work from home office.

If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply."
About Our Benefits
Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits.
Compensation Range;
($74,590 - $116,360) with bonus incentive
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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.
Requisition ID: 35402
An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Date: Feb 27, 2024
If you need accommodation for any part of the employment process because of a disability, please send an email to [email protected].