Senior Accountant - External Reporting

Solenis•Wilmington, DE

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Solenis is a leading global provider of water and hygiene solutions. The company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, cleaners, disinfectants, and state-of-the-art monitoring, control and delivery systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments. Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 78 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over ~23000 professionals in >160 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2025 Best Managed Company Gold Standard honoree. As Senior Accountant – External Reporting, you will report directly to Senior Manager of External Reporting, combines strong accounting fundamentals with the ability to work efficiently in spreadsheets, perform data analysis, and manage deadlines. You should be comfortable reading, analyzing and preparing financial statements and footnotes, and should have a general understanding of the impact of our disclosures to investors. Additionally, you should have strong communication skills, be able to articulate accounting concepts to non-technical people.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
3-5 years of progressive accounting experience
Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, financial reporting, and accounting research
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
Data analysis
Spreadsheet optimization
Clean presentation and logical organization
Lookups, sumifs, pivot tables, and other data summarization formulas
Strong communication, organizational, and project management skills.
CPA License or active pursuit of CPA license

Responsibilities

Prepare and support the completion of quarterly and annual filings
Prepare consolidated financial statements and full set of footnote disclosures, including maintaining disclosure checklist
Draft MD&A and work with investor relations/FP&A to coordinate congruence to earnings materials
Own the trial balance refresh process and Workiva link publishing
Lead and organize process for gathering required support for disclosures
Detail review of financial statements including tick & tie, footing, and disclosure proofreading
Own quarterly flux process with management (internal control process) and auditors (quarterly reviews)
Main point of contact for audit requests, ensure items are furnished to auditors timely and that tasks are assigned to the correct Solenis employees.
Clear financial statement comments from auditors and management
Perform monthly management reporting to private equity ownership
Support accounting and financial reporting related to debt instruments, including term loans, revolving credit facilities, notes, and other financing arrangements.
Prepare accounting analyses for complex debt modifications, debt extinguishments, refinancings, and other financing transactions.
Support accounting team and external counsel in preparation of proformas, disclosures, and financials to be included offering documents for refinancing activities and other securities offerings
Maintain debt amortization schedules and support related footnote disclosures.
Prepare journal entries for our debt accounting and interest accruals, and perform associated balance sheet reconciliations
Use Intelligize to perform initial technical accounting research for unique transactions and disclosure benchmarking
Draft technical accounting memos as needed
Work with HR to monitor equity activity, prepare monthly entries for stock compensation, and prepare diluted earnings per share (EPS) calculations
Work with internal counsel to manage legal accruals and disclosures
Serve as administrator for Workiva platform, which includes the operation of internal controls
Assist in design and implementation of internal controls
Operate various internal controls surrounding main responsibilities, including management certifications
Support continuous improvement of the financial reporting control environment.
Coordinate, take notes, and participate in disclosure committee meetings, material events review, and other meetings with accounting/tax/finance leadership
Support the implementation of new accounting standards and disclosure requirements.
Identify opportunities to improve reporting processes via Workiva, Excel, OneStream, SAP, and other tools
Assist with ad hoc projects with accounting leadership: e.g. regional cash flow review