Senior Plant Accountant

PMG Holding • Madison, NC

19h • Onsite

About The Position

Pavement Maintenance Group is hiring a Senior Plant Accountant for our Madison, North Carolina operation. This is a broad, hands-on individual-contributor role for someone who enjoys connecting accounting with inventory, production, purchasing, and day-to-day plant activity. The opportunity can be a strong next step for a Staff Accountant, Cost Accountant, or Accounting Analyst who has solid accounting fundamentals and is ready to grow into broader ownership. It can also suit an experienced plant accountant who prefers meaningful, hands-on work over a narrowly specialized or heavily managerial role. You will work closely with experienced finance and operations leaders, learn the business from the plant floor up, and help turn operating activity into accurate financial information and useful decisions.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance, or an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience.
• A sound understanding of debits and credits, journal entries, the general ledger, account reconciliations, and financial statements.
• Progressive accounting experience; candidates ready to step up from a Staff Accountant, Cost Accountant, Accounting Analyst, or similar role are encouraged to apply.
• Strong Excel skills and comfort learning and working in ERP and reporting systems.
• A practical, investigative mindset and the confidence to ask operations questions when the numbers do not make sense.
• Strong communication, accuracy, follow-through, and the ability to manage competing deadlines.
• Willingness to work onsite, spend time outside the accounting office, and participate in physical inventory activities.

Nice To Haves

• Manufacturing, inventory, cost-accounting, distribution, or other physical-product experience is preferred.
• A strong accounting foundation and genuine interest in learning plant accounting can also succeed here.

Responsibilities

• Perform and support month-end close, including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, reporting, and variance explanations.
• Help ensure inventory and manufacturing costs are accurate, including raw materials, work in process, finished goods, labor, overhead, and cost of goods sold.
• Participate in physical inventories and cycle counts, reconcile discrepancies, and work with plant personnel to identify and correct their causes.
• Investigate material, usage, scrap, production, purchasing, and other operating variances.
• Support accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash reconciliations, fixed assets, and other general-accounting responsibilities in a lean plant environment.
• Assist with pricing, margin analysis, budgets, forecasts, and operational reporting.
• Partner directly with production, purchasing, sales, payroll, and plant leadership to improve financial visibility and decision-making.
• Review timecard information and coordinate accurate regional payroll submissions.
• Support audits, internal controls, system improvements, and process changes.
• Look beyond the spreadsheet, ask questions, and help resolve problems at their operational source.

Benefits

• Broader ownership: Build experience across close, cost accounting, inventory, operational finance, and general accounting.
• Visible impact: Your work will directly support plant performance and operating decisions.
• Real development: Learn alongside experienced finance and operations leaders and take on additional responsibility as your capability grows.
• Varied work: Solve real business problems rather than being limited to one narrow accounting function.
• Close partnership: Become part of a practical, collaborative team where accounting is connected to the operation.

What This Job Offers

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