Accounting Close & Financial Reporting Manager

Herr Foods Inc. • Nottingham, PA

13d • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager, Accounting Close and Financial Reporting is a critical finance leader responsible for owning and driving the company’s month-end close process, internal and external financial reporting, and standard cost accounting activities. This role plays an essential part in ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and integrity of financial results, while supporting a strong control environment and delivering meaningful insight to business leaders. Reporting to the Assistant Controller, this role is responsible for managing and continuously improving monthly close and financial reporting. The position also owns core standard costing responsibilities, including setting standards, analyzing standard cost variances, supporting inventory valuation, and partnering across the business to improve cost accuracy and financial visibility. This is a challenging, high-impact role that requires a candidate with both strong month-end close leadership and hands-on standard cost accounting experience. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, technically strong, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced manufacturing environment where ownership, accountability, and problem-solving are critical to success. The Manager, Accounting Close and Financial Reporting will lead a team of 4 and work closely with finance, operations, supply chain, and plant leadership to ensure reliable close processes, high-quality financial reporting, and actionable variance analysis. The role is expected to combine strong execution with a continuous-improvement mindset, helping strengthen systems, processes, and cross-functional business partnerships.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field required.
• 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful ownership of month-end close and financial reporting responsibilities
• Direct experience with standard costing in a manufacturing environment, including standard setting, variance analysis, and inventory valuation
• Strong experience managing or coordinating a disciplined monthly close process in a complex business environment
• Strong experience owning and driving a disciplined month-end close process in a complex accounting environment.
• Hands-on knowledge of standard cost accounting, including setting standards, analyzing purchase price, labor, and manufacturing variances, and supporting inventory valuation.
• Strong understanding of financial reporting requirements, account reconciliations, accruals, and financial statement preparation under US GAAP.
• Analytical and detail-oriented, with the ability to investigate issues, identify root causes, and translate findings into actionable business insight.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage deadlines, competing priorities, and close-related pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong systems aptitude, including experience with ERP platforms, financial reporting tools, and Excel; Microsoft Dynamics experience preferred.
• Effective communication and cross-functional partnership skills, particularly with operations, supply chain, and finance leadership.
• Process improvement mindset with the ability to improve close efficiency, reporting quality, and standard cost accuracy.
• High level of ownership, accountability, and follow-through in a challenging and highly visible role.
• Ability to effectively present complex information in one-on-one and small group situations to internal/external customers.
• Excels at collaborating with a diverse array of internal and external customers.

Nice To Haves

• Progressive experience in manufacturing, food, or consumer packaged goods environments strongly preferred
• Experience with ERP systems, financial reporting tools, and process improvement initiatives
• CPA preferred; public accounting experience is a plus but not required

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes, ensuring accurate, timely, and well-controlled execution of journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation.
• Manage internal and external financial reporting requirements, including monthly management reporting, supporting schedules, and external financial reporting deliverables.
• Own the company’s standard cost processes, including setting and updating standards, reviewing cost assumptions, analyzing variances, and supporting accurate product costing and inventory valuation.
• Analyze manufacturing and inventory-related variances, identify root causes, and partner with operations and supply chain leaders to improve accuracy, visibility, and performance.
• Coordinate close calendars, deadlines, and deliverables across the accounting team to ensure a disciplined and efficient close process.
• Review and improve account reconciliations, close documentation, and supporting workpapers to strengthen control, accuracy, and repeatability.
• Partner with the Assistant Controller to enhance close, reporting, and cost accounting processes through better systems usage, standardization, automation, and process improvement.
• Support internal and external audit requests related to financial reporting, close activities, inventory, and standard cost accounting.
• Prepare and communicate financial results, variance analysis, and key insights clearly to finance leadership and relevant business partners.
• Help build a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement across close and reporting activities.
• Develop and mentor a high-performing team by setting expectations, providing feedback, building bench strength, and fostering a service-oriented, continuous-improvement culture.
• Lead and positively influence employees towards maximum goal and KPI achievement and employee’s best performance.
• Maintain and oversee team results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees, planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Follow- up with team members to drive accountability for action steps and timing to deliver events as needed.
• Monitor and oversee staff performance and holding team accountable for optimal service to both internal and external customers.
• Demonstrates and fosters a positive work environment consistent with company values and 5Cs.
• Exercise honesty, integrity and respect with all clients and co-workers, preserve confidentially of all business information and data, maintain a professional appearance and demeanor, demonstrate a positive attitude, communicate effectively with co-workers and clients, work with accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail, respect the work environment and keep it as environmentally friendly as possible, and exercise initiative to learn new skills and tasks and to help co-workers when possible. Reliable attendance and punctuality are also required.
• Perform other related duties, special projects and functions as required from time to time.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, hearing and vision insurance.
• Marathon Health Clinic - a premier on-site healthcare provider.
• Opportunity to contribute to a 401k, with a company match.
• Paid vacation, holiday and sick time.
• Paid Employee referral program.
• Long term disability, life insurance, accident, hospital and critical illness indemnity plans, and legal plans.
• EAP services, and tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager