Senior Accountant

Motif FoodWorks

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.