Senior Accountant

Location: Northern Chicago Suburbs

Schedule: Hybrid | 2 Days Onsite, 3 Days Remote

We are partnering with an established manufacturing organization that is looking to add a Senior Accountant to its growing accounting team.

This is a newly created position with significant exposure to the Controller and an opportunity to help strengthen accounting processes, procedures, and controls. The team is specifically interested in someone with a strong accounting foundation who enjoys understanding the detail behind the numbers and wants to continue growing into higher-level accounting responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly and quarterly close
• Prepare journal entries and account reconciliations
• Assist with monthly and quarterly financial reporting
• Support balance sheet and income statement account analysis
• Assist with manufacturing and cost accounting, including standard costing
• Support inventory-related accounting and analysis
• Assist with cash flow and cash reconciliations
• Support project and lease accounting activities
• Help strengthen accounting controls, procedures, and documentation
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency and processes
• Gather information and provide support for internal and external audits
• Partner across the finance team on additional accounting and analytical projects

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• 2+ years of public accounting/audit experience strongly preferred
• Manufacturing audit or accounting exposure preferred
• Strong understanding of account reconciliations, controls, documentation, and accounting procedures
• Month-end close experience
• Exposure to cost accounting, standard costing, labor, overhead, or inventory accounting
• Strong Excel skills
• ERP experience
• SOX/internal controls exposure preferred
• CPA or progress toward CPA is a plus
• Driven, hands-on professional interested in continued career growth

Why Consider It?

• Hybrid schedule with only 2 days per week onsite
• Newly created position with visibility to accounting leadership
• Opportunity to help rebuild and improve processes and controls
• Broad exposure beyond a traditional close-focused Senior Accountant role
• Manufacturing and cost accounting experience
• Strong emphasis on professional development and advancement
• Long-term opportunity to grow into higher-level accounting leadership