Senior Accounting Manager

The Senior Accounting Manager at Zak Designs supervises and reviews activities of Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable teams. Ensures accurate and timely recording and reporting of financial information for these areas. Reviews processes for improvement opportunities and recommends and/or makes changes as appropriate. Prepares various financial analysis reports, reconciliations, and schedules and/or reviews those prepared by others.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned as necessary.

• Supervises Accounts Payable (A/P) team ensuring accurate recording of invoices and transactions, timely payments and all other assigned duties are completed timely, accurately, and in an efficient manner.
• Supervises Accounts Receivable (A/R) ensuring that all of their duties and responsibilities are completed timely, accurately, and in an efficient manner.
• Ensures appropriate training and cross-training are completed for all team members that she/he supervises, and documentation is maintained of all training in the Accounting Training Plan.
• Reviews credit memos, debit memos, write-offs, and payments journals daily for accuracy. Reconciles the Accounts Receivable aging report to the GL on a rotating basis.
• Reviews daily AP posting report and source documents for accuracy and completeness.
• Reviews balance sheet schedules prepared by AR and AP team members, ensuring accuracy and completeness prior to closing and according to timeline established in month-end checklist. Ensure schedules tie out to the respective general ledger accounts and follows up with team members regarding any required corrections or adjustments.
• Prepares “Margin Data” reports, reconciling sales, COGS and margins to the GL by product category and shipment method. Loads any adjustments to Halo BI.
• Reconciles and prepare schedules for various balance sheet and income statement accounts monthly according to the timeline established in the month end checklist. Accounting Manager should be able to reconcile any account.
• On a revolving schedule, performs duties necessary to close Accounts Receivable and Inventory on calendar month end.
• Maintains Concur invoicing and travel expense software, adding and deleting users and training employees as needed. Ensuring all travel expenses reports are approved and loaded into Apprise in timely manner, following up on dated expenses.
• Reconciles monthly SRI direct import sales commissions statements.
• Prepares schedules for year-end financial audit and bank audit. Prepare a variety of other financial reports and analysis in Excel and Word as required. Builds, maintains and troubleshoots excel spreadsheets as needed for various reports and analysis.
• Prepares, updates and maintains policies and procedures for Accounting Manager position and reviews procedure manuals for staff, improving processes as needed and/or recommending changes to Controller.
• Prepares Freight Analysis report monthly
• Cross trains in designated duties of Controller, AR and AP Personnel to cover absences as needed.