Senior Plant Accountant

Silfab Solar•Burlington, WA

14h

About The Position

The Senior Plant Accountant owns accounting for Silfab Solar’s Burlington manufacturing plant, including month-end close, inventory and cost accounting, fixed assets, and related internal controls. The role also supports the Operations Controller and FP&A Manager with the plant budget and weekly and monthly variance reporting. The position is responsible for plant accounting and close activities, including journal entries, accruals, prepaids, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets and capital projects, and review of procure-to-pay activity. It also accounts for inventory and cost of goods sold, maintains standard costs, analyzes manufacturing variances, and coordinates inventory counts and reserve analysis. The Senior Plant Accountant performs and documents plant controls, maintains process narratives and risk-and-control matrices, supports audits, and recommends improvements to segregation of duties and process design. The role contributes to the annual plant budget and reforecasts and prepares weekly and monthly variance reports with explanations of results.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
4–7 years of accounting experience, including at least 2 years in manufacturing, plant, or cost accounting.
Experience independently running a monthly plant or entity close, including accruals and balance sheet reconciliations.
Familiarity with SOX controls, including the ability to describe controls performed, evidence retained, and how controls were tested.
Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, XLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH, and SUMIFS.
Experience with a manufacturing ERP such as SAP, Oracle, Dynamics 365, Epicor, or NetSuite.
Solid working knowledge of inventory and standard costing under U.S. GAAP, including how variances flow to inventory and COGS and inventory valuation at the lower of cost or net realizable value.
Ability to explain financial results clearly to non-finance plant leaders.

Nice To Haves

CPA or CMA certification, or currently pursuing one.
Experience in high-volume, automated manufacturing, such as solar, semiconductor, electronics, or automotive.
Hands-on SOX 404 experience or a background in public accounting or audit.
Power Query experience.
Experience with Power BI or a similar reporting tool.

Responsibilities

Own the plant month-end close, including journal entries, accruals, prepaids, and balance sheet reconciliations, and complete all activities by the close deadline.
Reconcile plant general ledger accounts, including inventory, GRNI, fixed assets, CIP, and accrued liabilities, and promptly clear reconciling items.
Account for fixed assets and capital projects from CIP through placed-in-service and depreciation.
Review plant procure-to-pay activity, including receiving, three-way-match exceptions, and AP aging, and escalate cut-off issues.
Ensure plant results follow U.S. GAAP and company policy, and help cost center owners understand their numbers.
Account for raw materials, WIP, finished goods, and COGS, and reconcile perpetual inventory to the general ledger.
Maintain standard costs and analyze purchase price, usage, scrap, and overhead absorption variances.
Coordinate cycle counts and annual physical inventory, and analyze excess, obsolete, and scrap reserves.
Perform and document plant key controls over inventory, procure-to-pay, fixed assets, and close, maintaining audit-ready evidence.
Maintain process narratives and risk-and-control matrices.
Support audit walkthroughs, testing, and requests from internal and external auditors.
Identify segregation-of-duties and process-design gaps and recommend practical fixes.
Support the Operations Controller and FP&A Manager in preparing the annual plant operating budget and reforecasts.
Prepare the weekly plant flash and monthly actual-versus-budget and prior-period variance reports, explaining the drivers of results.