Accounting Manager

Job Overview

The Accounting Manager is responsible for the generation of accurate and timely financial information, supports the Plant Manager (CMBE HV Philadelphia Site) and functions as a key member of the site leadership team, whilst also reporting to the CMBE Divisional Financial Controller, based in the UK.

The Accounting Manager heads up HV-CMBE’s Finance Department and is responsible for all the site accounting operations, costings, local management reporting and group financial reporting.

Duties and responsibilities

Regular tasks

Month-end Accounts Financial Closings:

• Oversee accounts receivable and accounts payable closing processes.
• Preparing and entering monthly journals.
• Assess, complete, and report financial statements to Crown Corporate and CMBE UK.
• Comparisons of budgets/forecasts to actuals (monthly, quarterly &
  annually) commentaries and bridges.
• Creation and reporting of balance sheet reconciliations.

Budget / Forecasts:

• Preparing annual budgets and revised quarterly forecasts.
• Monthly income projections and analysis of changes in forecasts.

Management reports
- Provide site management with reports such as OTIF Tracking, Backlog, Job Cost, Inventory Tracking, sales margins and help advance and improve the reporting process.

Accounts Payable &
Accounts Receivable:

• Manage the processing of accounts payable.
• Approve accounts payable for processing.
• Complete vendor requests for establishing credit.
• Manage accounts receivable collections.
• Monthly bank reconciliation.
• Complete credit check for new customers.
• Fixed Assets:
  

• Prepare payback analysis for capital projects.
• Enter Project Requests into the electronic approval system and track spending.
• Maintain the fixed asset register.
• Manage annual fixed asset inventory.

Other

• Ad hoc projects and tasks as required.
• If needed assist with processing the weekly hourly payroll.
• Cover and assistance to other CMBE sites.
• Providing input to strategic and financial decisions.
• Managing and consulting with external and internal auditors.

Annual tasks

• Prepare employees 401k profit sharing and incentive bonuses on an annual basis.
• Managing annual physical inventory counts
• Re-calculation of burden and salary rates

Essential Skills and Experience.

• Five plus years of accounting with responsibility for producing full financial statements.
• Experience of reporting to a parent entity and adherence to corporate standards.
• Strong double entry skills.
• Good understanding of US GAPP.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Experience of working with ERP or MRP packages.
• Excellent MS Excel skills and good IT acumen.
• A working knowledge of cost accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets and payroll.
• Experience of internal controls.

Key Aptitudes

• The natural desire to investigate and improve processes.
• A logical mind with an inclination for problem solving.
• Ability to consider an audience when articulating ideas or solutions.
• Self-driven willingness to learn new skills and the discipline to work unsupervised.

Preferred:
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• Experience of accounting in a manufacturing environment.
• Professional Accountancy qualification or graduated with an Accountancy degree.
• Experience of SOX Compliance.