Senior Accountant

The Manitowoc Company • Milwaukee, WI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Accountant will assist with GL focused accounting activities for US Distribution including payroll, balance sheet accruals, rental revenue recognition, and various journal entries & reconciliations. This role will report to the Sr. Accounting Manager and help ensure that US Distribution is in full compliance with all corporate policies.

Requirements

• Proficient MS Office skills
• Experience with preparing journal entries and account reconciliations
• Exhibits initiative and is willing to learn and improve processes every month.
• Must have strong verbal and written communication skills to foster open communication between the business unit and finance team.
• Be adaptable to interruptions during the workday caused by shifting priorities.
• Must have strong attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

• A willingness to travel to branches as needed mostly to support inventory counts. On average would be less than 2 trips per year.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for US Distribution payroll activities including journal entries (actuals, accruals, worker’s comp, sick time, etc.), account reconciliations, and communication with the payroll team to resolve issues as needed.
• Journal entry and account reconciliation preparation to ensure accurate GL activity including but not limited to SG&A / COS reclass, admin allocations, WIP, GDNI, bad debt, and COSA accruals. Additionally, review and approve journal entries and reconciliations of other team members.
• Prepare various key monthly reports required to help ensure accurate financials including the Costed Not Invoiced report.
• Resolve issues as required by working with the business, IT, and other finance team members.
• Main contact for all required invoice reversals. Review request in detail, gather required approvals, conduct the reversal in the ERP, document as required.
• Responsible for the rental revenue cutoff analysis and required monthly journal entries to ensure proper revenue recognition is applied.
• Assist the Sr. Accounting Manager as needed with other GL management items such as open/close the period, COA maintenance, manual invoice coding & approval, control environment tasks, global finance project deliverables, etc.
• Code intercompany invoices as necessary and prepare required intercompany reconciliations.

Benefits

• Competitive total rewards package including benefits beginning on day one of employment
• Continuing education & training – tuition reimbursement and scholarship program for those who qualify
• Onsite fitness center, golf simulator, employee lounge and beautiful walking path
• Onsite café offering variety of breakfast and lunch items
• Monthly team building, engagement events and community involvement
• Work from home every Wednesday
• 11 paid holidays
• 3 weeks of vacation that we encourage everyone to use!
• Paid parental leave

What This Job Offers

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