Job Title

Accounting Manager

Plant/Location

Trevose, PA 19053 US (Primary)

Job Type

Salary

Category

Accounting

Career Level

Manager

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job Accountabilities

Job Overview

The Plant Accountant is responsible for the generation of accurate and timely financial information, supports the Plant Manager (CMBE HV Philadelphia Site) and functions as a key member of the site leadership team, whilst also reporting to the CMBE Divisional Financial Controller, based in the UK.

The Plant Accountant heads up HV-CMBE's Finance Department and is responsible for all the site accounting operations, costings, local management reporting and group financial reporting.

Duties and responsibilities

Regular tasks

Month-end Accounts Financial Closings:
- Oversee accounts receivable and accounts payable closing processes.
- Preparing and entering monthly journals.
- Assess, complete, and report financial statements to Crown Corporate and CMBE UK.
- Comparisons of budgets/forecasts to actuals (monthly, quarterly & annually) commentaries and bridges.
- Creation and reporting of balance sheet reconciliations.
Budget / Forecasts:
- Preparing annual budgets and revised quarterly forecasts.
- Monthly income projections and analysis of changes in forecasts.
Management reports
- Provide site management with reports such as OTIF Tracking, Backlog, Job Cost, Inventory Tracking, sales margins and help advance and improve the reporting process.

Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable:
- Manage the processing of accounts payable.
- Approve accounts payable for processing.
- Complete vendor requests for establishing credit.
- Manage accounts receivable collections.
- Monthly bank reconciliation.
- Complete credit check for new customers.
Fixed Assets:

- Prepare payback analysis for capital projects.
- Enter Project Requests into the electronic approval system and track spending.
- Maintain the fixed asset register.
- Manage annual fixed asset inventory.

Other
- Ad hoc projects and tasks as required.
- If needed assist with processing the weekly hourly payroll.
- Cover and assistance to other CMBE sites.
- Providing input to strategic and financial decisions.
- Managing and consulting with external and internal auditors.

Annual tasks
- Prepare employees 401k profit sharing and incentive bonuses on an annual basis.
- Managing annual physical inventory counts
- Re-calculation of burden and salary rates

Job Requirements

Essential Skills and Experience.
- Five plus years of accounting with responsibility for producing full financial statements.
- Experience of reporting to a parent entity and adherence to corporate standards.
- Strong double entry skills.
- Good understanding of US GAPP.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Experience of working with ERP or MRP packages.
- Excellent MS Excel skills and good IT acumen.
- A working knowledge of cost accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets and payroll.
- Experience of internal controls.

Key Aptitudes
- The natural desire to investigate and improve processes.
- A logical mind with an inclination for problem solving.
- Ability to consider an audience when articulating ideas or solutions.
- Self-driven willingness to learn new skills and the discipline to work unsupervised.

Preferred:.
- Experience of accounting in a manufacturing environment.
- Professional Accountancy qualification or graduated with an Accountancy degree.
- Experience of SOX Compliance.

Travel

0 - 10%

Crown is an equal opportunity employer. Crown does not discriminate against any candidate or employee on the basis of race, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.