Industry: Manufacturing and Distribution (Safety Equipment)
Job Title: Senior Manager Accounting
Location: SW Chicago suburbs
Compensation: $112,500 – $150,000 / Year
Employment Type: Employee (direct hire)
Manage Others: Yes
Work Environment: Hybrid (4 days in the office and 1 day [Friday] from home)
Work Hours: Flexible start and end times (typically start between 6:00 am-8:30 am and end between 3:00 pm-5:30 pm; 40-hour work week)
Job Summary
As our Senior Manager, Accounting, you’ll play a key role in ensuring that everything from cost accounting and inventory to month-end close runs smoothly and accurately.
This role goes beyond the day-to-day. You’ll partner closely with teams across the business—especially operations and supply chain—to help make sense of the numbers and support better decisions. You’ll lead a team, improve processes, and find ways to make our systems and workflows more efficient as we continue to grow.
We’re looking for someone who’s hands-on, collaborative, and naturally curious—someone who enjoys digging into the details but also understands how their work connects to the bigger picture.
Responsibilities
- Effectively lead, develop, and manage Accounting & Accounts Payable staff, including leading recurring team meetings to ensure clear communication of priorities and responsibilities.
- Execution of accurate and timely month-end and year-end close utilizing the ERP and reporting systems.
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of account reconciliations and financial activity, including cash, inventory, receivable billings & collections, accounts payable, prepaid expenses, and accrued liabilities.
- Assist with year-end financial statement review for assigned entities.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of strong accounting policies and procedures.
- Assist in the creation of efficiencies in accounting processes by implementing process improvements, technology driven solutions and automation. Partner with other departments and IT to ensure all financial systems are properly operating to capture and produce timely and accurate information and support the company’s growth.
- Perform other accounting, financial, or administrative tasks as may be required from time-to-time.
- Support manufacturing-related accounting areas such as standard costing, cycle counts, inventory valuation, and variance analysis.
- Lead various critical projects, including audit readiness, accounting policy updates, ERP projects, and special initiatives.
- Assist with annual benefits and insurance renewals, banking renewals and other contracts.
- Assist in implementing new accounting standards and corporate policies.
- Leverage ERP and financial systems to improve reporting and decision-support capabilities.
- Act as a trusted advisor to finance and company leadership with the ability to research and resolve complex accounting issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting required
- CPA strongly preferred
- 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, public accounting experience strongly preferred
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, financial reporting, and internal controls
- Experience with managing accounting staff
- Audit, manufacturing, and cost accounting experience preferred
- Ability to interpret complex accounting issues and provide clear guidance
- Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Insurance and/or Benefits experience a plus
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and partner across multiple areas of the business.
- High level of initiative, curiosity, and ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
- Comfortable managing changing priorities and frequent ad hoc requests.
- Team-oriented approach with a desire to support and develop others
Employee Benefits
- Education reimbursement (best employee benefit of any IFG client)
- Undergraduate: Up to $6,000 per year
- Graduate: Up to $12,000 per year
- Certifications (CPA, CFA, etc.) also covered under this program
- Software training (PowerBI, data analysis) also covered under this program
- Additional employee benefits:
- Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- Bonus plan
- 401k retirement plan with company match
- Company provided Profit Sharing
- Participation in corporate (PTO) policy
- 9 Paid Holidays