Accounting Manager - Mt Pleasant, United States - Toyota Material Handling PennWest, Inc.

Description

The Accounting Manager is responsible for the planning and directing of the accounting activities under the guidance and direction of the Controller. This includes leading daily operations, maintaining the general ledger system, preparing and/or reviewing appropriate ledger entries and reconciliations, preparing monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, assisting with regulatory reporting as applicable, managers various audits, and related duties. Additionally, this role will establish and scale company accounting and finance operations.

Role Responsibilities:

• Manages the accounting staff who are responsible for financial reporting, billing, collections, payroll, and budget preparation.
• Coordinates training programs for new staff and identifies training needs for current staff.
• Hires and trains new employees including establishing and monitoring training and development plans
• Organizes and oversees the schedules and work of assigned employees.
• Conducts performance evaluations that are timely and constructive.
• Establishes internal controls and guidelines for accounting transactions and budget preparation.
• Oversees preparation of business activity reports, financial forecasts, and annual budgets.
• Works with business leaders to manage and support each department during the budget process.
• Oversees the production of periodic financial reports; ensures that the reported results comply with generally accepted accounting principles or financial reporting standards.
• Responsible for preparing reports necessary for tax planning throughout the fiscal year;
• Ensures compliance with local, state, and federal government requirements.
• Presents recommendations to management on short- and long-term financial objectives and policies.
• Provides financial analysis with an emphasis on capital investments, pricing decisions, and contract negotiations.
• Maintains the general ledger in Irium
• Preparing monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements; assisting with regulatory reporting as applicable
• Researching accounting issues for compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
• Performs additional duties as required or assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Solid verbal and written communication skills.
• Exceptional accounting knowledge
• Working knowledge of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is required, Irium experience a plus.
• Intermediate experience with MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business or a related field required
• A minimum of seven years of experience in accounting
• Experience working in a leadership role preferred
• Working knowledge of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is also valuable.
• Certified Public Accounting a plus
• Working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

Leadership Competencies:

Leader of Self: Understands self and others with the ability to articulate own values and priorities, understands individual role and demonstrates commitment to supporting the organization. Understands their own personality and work style, in addition to appreciating differences in personalities and work styles in others. Demonstrates balance between humility and self-assurance.

Leader as Relationship Builder: Values diversity and demonstrates inclusivity in work processes and work teams. Encourages and promotes the diversification of the organization. Actively seeks out and invites alternative viewpoints in planning, discussions, and decision making.

Leader as Performance Manager: Builds organizational talent and makes sound hiring decisions. Provides a strong orientation for new team members and sets clear expectations. Provides ongoing feedback; effectively coaches both good and bad performance. Partners with each employee in conducting meaningful performance evaluations. Helps each individual develop professionally and holds them accountable for performance. Takes responsibility for their own professional development.

Leader as Innovator: Understands organizational history and development. Projects organizational improvements and developments for the future. Anticipates change and leads and encourages adjustments in institutional roles. Seeks input and listens to all stakeholders. Builds organizational capacity to meet future challenges. Engages and supports appropriate risk-taking. Identifies and removes barriers to innovation. Rewards and supports innovations advancing excellence and efficiency.

Leads with Integrity: Demonstrates honesty by abiding by all relevant laws, rules and regulations and encourages others to do the same. Gives credit where credit is due. Delivers what is promised. Admits and learns from mistakes. Corrects mistakes to utmost ability.

Builds Trust: Builds trust with others by demonstrating respect, valuing people, and creating transparency. Keeps commitments. Extends trust to others. Inspires confidence both in word and deed. Actively works to restore trust when necessary. Keeps confidence when appropriate.

Communication: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

Collaboration: Uses diplomacy and tact to maintain harmonious and effective work relationships with team members and partnering departments; adapts to changing priorities and demands; shares information and resources with others to promote positive and collaborative work relationships; supports diversity initiatives by demonstrating respect for all individuals.

Continuous Improvement: Originating action to improve existing conditions and processes; identifying improvement opportunities, generating ideas, and implementing solutions.

Customer Focus: Ensuring that the customers perspective is a driving force behind business decisions and activities; crafting and implementing service practices that meet customers and own organizations needs.

Analytical/Problem Solving: Analytical thinking is a critical component of visual thinking that gives one the ability to solve problems quickly and effectively. It involves a methodical step-by-step approach to thinking that allows you to break down complex problems into single and manageable components.

Project Management: The discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieved specific goals to meet specific success criteria.

Critical Thinking/Strategy: Obtaining information and identifying key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goals of vision; committing to a course of action to accomplish a long-range goal or vision after developing alternative based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraining and organizational values.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to travel occasionally
• Must be able to continuously talk, hear and speak with good articulation and voice control.
• Must be able to use fingers and hands to handle, feel and reach with hands and arms to lift, file and handle files
• Must be able to work in a fast-paced environment under significant stress and meet high performance demands
• Must be able to lift up to 10 pounds at times
• Must be able to life, bend, twist, kneel, crouch, crawl occasionally
• Some overnight travel may be required.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

This position also entails the necessity to work after normal working hours or on weekends based on business needs. Works under normal office conditions where required to sit for extended periods of time. Regularly spend significant amounts of time working in front of a computer terminal or in interactions with various people. Some travel may be required. Needs to be able to cope with stressors and demands that are associated with the job and/or the work environment so that acceptable and defined levels of performance are maintained.

STATEMENT OF INTENT

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by the person assigned to this position. Essential job duties and responsibilities are intended to describe those functions that are essential to the performance of this job under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The physical demands and work environment described in the job description are representative of conditions which must be met or encountered while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This job description does not state or imply that the above are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. Associates holding this position will be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by management. All requirements are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with a disability.

PennWest is dedicated to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We promote and celebrate a diverse workforce and do not tolerate any discrimination. Any and all human relations decisions will not be based on persons race, color, religion, sex, national original, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, veteran status, or citizenship.