Manager, Accounting
About The Position
The Manager, Corporate Accounting is responsible for SanMar's corporate accounting operations, including governance of monthly, quarterly, and year end indirect vendor processing. This role ensures coding accuracy across departments, cost centers, general ledger accounts, projects, fixed assets, and vendors, while maintaining ownership of fixed asset subledgers and project accounting cost aggregation. This role leads SanMar's global commercial insurance program and evaluates internal control design and effectiveness across financial operations. The Manager, Corporate Accounting partners with internal and external stakeholders to drive accounting process improvements across non inventory procurement, project accounting, fixed assets, lease accounting, and insurance workflows, while supporting emerging business activities and non-routine projects.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent experience
- 7-9 years years of professional accounting experience
- Working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in relevant corporate services
- Expert level understanding of an internal control framework (specifically COSO) to assess control design and operational efficiency and teach these concepts to more junior team members
- Familiarity with GAAP research tools and the FASB codification in relevant corporate accounting areas
- Solid organizational skills along with an aptitude for information technology and workflow/data automation
- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to communicate across multiple departments
- Self-starter and ability to work independently and balance multiple projects and processes simultaneously
- Excellent written and verbal communication with interpersonal skills
- Ability to solve complex problems and communicate issues timely to the Controller/Assistant Controller, including accounting-coding exceptions, capitalization questions, and insurance claim developments
Nice To Haves
- 1-3 years in leading teams in fast-paced, rapidly growing, yet collaborative and team-oriented environment is preferred
- Certified Payroll Professional (CPP)-APA
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics D365 or similar ERP financial system is a plus
Responsibilities
- Oversee integrity of the general ledger across corporate accounting areas, including fixed assets, project accounting, non inventory expenditures, lease accounting, and insurance related accruals.
- Manage and develop Accounting team members through performance management, professional development and resource optimization.
- Own the fixed asset subledger, including additions, transfers, disposals, depreciation, construction-in-progress roll-forward, and reconciliation to the general ledger.
- Oversee the full fiscal year accounting life cycle of non-inventory purchases and capital expenditures, including planning, scoping, execution, accounting treatment, and reporting.
- Manage indirect vendor invoice processing to ensure accurate coding across departments, cost centers, GL accounts, projects, fixed assets, and vendors to resolve coding exceptions and maintain master data integrity on both project and procurement categories.
- Lead project accounting, including aggregation of costs by project categories, capital vs. expense classification, period-end accruals, and project close-out reporting.
- Monitor periodic changes to FASB regulations for private companies relevant to fixed assets, leases, capitalization, and insurance accounting, assess the impact to SanMar, and make necessary changes to policies, procedures, and controls as appropriate.
- Lead SanMar's global commercial insurance program — applications, renewals, and assistance with claims management — across property, casualty, general liability, auto, cargo, cyber, D&O, and other non-benefits lines (excluding medical, health, and employee benefits insurance).
- Analyze and recommend improvements to systems, policies, procedures, and internal controls.
- Lead key accounting process improvement projects involving multiple departments and for completing other non-routine project assignments as requested.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Comply with all policies and standards.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus up to 15% of base salary
- Accrue paid time off on a bi-weekly basis based on hours worked up to 152 hours per year to start.
- 8 paid holidays
- 1 paid family day off
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle
- Life insurance
- Short/long-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity/paternity leave
- Pet insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
