Senior Accountant

Morton Salt•Overland Park, KS

13d

About The Position

Morton Salt is an iconic company with a strong heritage and a bright future. Since 1848, we have been improving lives and enhancing everyday moments – at home, at work and virtually everywhere in between. We help unlock the flavors in food, make roads and sidewalks safer, improve the water in baths, pools, and homes, and keep businesses and industries running. We are a dedicated team who constantly strives to do better together, and we are passionate about building a sustainable future for our company, the communities in which we operate, and the world around us. By joining our team, you will contribute to producing and delivering every form of salt that enhances everyday life. Job Summary The Senior Accountant position supports our Kissner Milling Company is responsible for general ledger postings, including intercompany transactions and allocations, prepaid expenses, payroll related accruals, among other month-end accounting tasks. The senior accountant is responsible for preparing monthly account reconciliations ensuring account balances are adequately supported and reconciling items are identified. The position will also perform ad hoc account analysis to support census data and statistical reporting and support internal and external audit requests.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
Minimum of five years in a corporate accounting function at a large or medium sized company (public or private).
A working understanding of inventory management required.
Strong organizational and time management skills in order to meet deadlines.
Effective communication skill, both written and spoken, required.
Team player capable of multi-tasking and providing results within deadlines.

Nice To Haves

Willingness to learn and provide assistance in areas beyond job description.
Experience with Dynamics NAV software
Experience with OneStream account reconciliations.
Experience working in a multi-currency environment (Canada specifically)

Responsibilities

Intercompany Transactions: This position is responsible for managing, updating, and ensuring accuracy for the intercompany activities between related entities. The main responsibilities are as follows: organize, control, coordinate, and execute the monthly reconciliation of all intercompany balances. In addition, this role cross partners daily with plant controllers and other corporate departments for ongoing account transactions and reconciling items.
Month End Close: Ensure that all assigned closing transactions are done on time and in accordance with the month end calendar, including bank reconciliations and requesting month-end information from key stakeholders and following-up up if any discrepancies or missing documentation are identified. Also, assist controller with preparation of month end reporting data.
Account Reconciliation and Analysis: Monthly, prepare account reconciliations and upload to OneStream ensuring the balances are adequately explained and supported to facilitate management’s review and unreconciled items are resolved on a timely basis.
Lease management: Help with the tracking and reconciliation of leases on a monthly and quarterly basis and report to corporate lease accounting team.
Payroll and vacation accruals: Prepare journal entries for weekly payrolls and prepare monthly payroll, retirement and vacation accrual entries with supporting documentation for the entries
Rebates: Manage customer rebate accruals and validate deductions and credits issued monthly, quarterly and annually.
Internal Control and Audit: Ensure proper internal controls are maintained in executing accounting duties, including maintaining adequate supporting documentation for journal entries and account reconciliations. Assist with internal and external audit requests by collecting and organizing supporting documentation.
Census and Statistical Reporting: Creates and completes templates for quarterly and annual Census and Statistical Reporting for both US and Canada governmental reporting agencies. Prepare support calculations for balance sheet and income statement line items. Develops new ad hoc reporting based on reporting requirements including legal entity level and account activity. This position prepares results for internal management review as well as direct final submission.
Other regulatory reporting: Help create data sets for Canadian and US EPR/bluebox reporting. Also help create data sets for Federal Plastic Registry reporting in Canada as required.
Annual budget: Assist with preparation of annual budgets for SG&A.