Senior Accountant

Number of employees

74

Boston, MA, USA

Posted on: 2022-03-01

Category: food

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Employment type:

Full time

Experience required:

Senior

Salary

Salary not provided

About the company:

Motif FoodWorks is a food-technology company working to make plant-based foods better tasting, more nutritious and so desirable that people actually crave them. 

Our mission is to unleash the promise of plant-based foods by taking a new, holistic approach to ingredient development that combines science and technology — merged with sensory fundamentals — to reveal totally new answers. By radically changing our understanding of plant-based food, Motif will enable crave-worthy products that exceed taste and experience expectations, unlocking benefits for everyone and our planet. Find out more at madewithmotif.com.

Ready to be part of something really big? We’re looking for a Senior Accountant to join our Finance and Accounting team. The Senior Accountant’s responsibilities include, but are not limited to, accurately recording financial transactions, reconciling and maintaining bank accounts, reviewing and verifying vendor invoices for proper coding and approvals, ensure timely and accurate processing of payments, preparing and recording monthly journal entries, preparing accurate monthly financial statements and related reports, maintaining adequate documentation to prove all general ledger balances, maintaining all financial schedules and files, assisting with year-end audit and preparation for audit, and assisting with annual budget preparation.   

Key Responsibilities

  • Preparation of monthly bank reconciliations, various operating accruals, and prepaid expense accounts.
  • Facilitate and assist in monthly close procedures which includes reconciling all balance sheet accounts and investigating variances or oddities
  • Maintain Fixed Assets subledger and record monthly depreciation expense.
  • Contribute to the preparation of monthly Income Statement and Balance Sheet
  • Additional financial and accounting responsibilities, as determined by Chief Financial Officer, may include various reporting deliverables and other special projects.
  • Set up and/or edit invoices for payment
  • Prepare and process payments to third parties
  • Resolve invoice discrepancies
  • Manage and maintain the Company’s credit card and expense policies, includes timely review and reimbursements to employees
  • Review Accounts Payable Aging Report for vendor timely payments
  • Assist with audit related procedures
  • Prepare annual 1099-Misc forms
 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting
  • 2-3 years of experience in accounting – public/private mix a plus
  • Working understanding of financial statements, debit and credits, accruals, and prepaids
  • Inventory accounting experience a plus
  • Highly detail oriented and organized
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle exposure to sensitive information
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills – both written and oral
  • Ability to act and operate independently with minimal daily direction from manager to accomplish objectives
  • Experience with NetSuite a plus
  • High degree of proficiency with Excel
  • Ability to pivot quickly between projects as well as be flexible in daily tasks
  • Ability to work with all levels of employees, management, and external agencies to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving, and results
  • Sense of humor and humble. We’re passionate about what we do but are also able to roll with the punches and laugh at ourselves. You should, too.

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