Accounting Manager
15602 Chemical Lane Huntington Beach, CA 92649 US
Job Description
Accounting Manager - Central Orange County - On-site - $120-145k base plus bonus
Our cient is seeking an Accounting Manager who works with the accounting team and assists in providing AR and AP compliance along with reporting the financial statements for the business; including the balance sheet, statement of retained earnings, income statement and statement of cash flows. Ensures financial business processes are in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and any additional governmental compliance requirements.
Job Accountabilities:
- Assists in providing the financial statements for the business, including the balance sheet, statement of retained earnings, income statement and statement of cash flows
- Maintains general ledger subledgers for balance sheet, processes monthly journal entries, and assists with monthly financial statements
- Participates in the monthly close process by generating various journal entries, preparing required reconciliations, and analytically reviewing specific general ledger accounts for accuracy and proper valuation
- Classifies, examines, and analyzes accounting records and prepares all related financial reports and statements
- Maintains facility fixed asset records including the property tax supporting documentation
- Maintains governmental filing requirements, including sales tax, property tax, corporate annual filings
- Assists accounting team in the data package for annual company internal audits in the Finance Accounting and Control Function
- Ensures financial business processes are in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and/or governmental requirements
- Maintain cost accounting system, analyze inventory valuations, calculate and provide explanations for gross margin analysis and calculate inventory reserve, warranty reserve and overhead allocation
- Perform balance sheet reconciliations
- Working knowledge of basic data query and manipulation concepts. Relevant experience includes basic relational database queries, reconciliation of multiple data sources, and data integration maintenance
- Experience with reporting toolset from pivot tables to enterprise level tools such as Microsoft Power BI
- Other responsibilities as assigned
Job Specifications:
Education: Post-Secondary Degree in Accounting or equivalent combination of relevant education and work experience that will allow successful performance of job expectation
Years' Experience: 5-7 years of relevant experience
Skills:
- Thorough understanding and experience in financial accounting and control processes, while ensuring compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Ability to maintain AR ledger and proactively resolve issues that arise pertaining to AR
- Strong attention to detail, good organizational skills and the ability to prioritize with changing situations
- Ability to solve problems in straightforward situations and analyzes possible solutions using technical experience, judgment and precedents
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Strong excel knowledge required, proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and database management tools
- Previous experience in manufacturing strongly preferred
- CPA or CMA certification a plus
- Independent self-starter motivated to meet goals
- Strong interest in continuously improving the automation of the accounting and reporting process
Job Requirements
Meet Your Recruiter

Jennifer Hannigan, CPA
Founder & CEO
Jennifer founded Alliance Resource Group in 2003 after four years as a consistent top five performer for a prominent national staffing agency. Jennifer’s vision was to take the best of both contingent and retained search firms and merge them into a single platform. ARG represents this vision with the high touch, highly consultative approach of the retained industry coupled with the sense of urgency and extensive and broad network of a contingent firm. Born and raised in San Diego, her claim to fame was winning the Metric Marathon in 5th grade. She wandered North and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. A Certified Public Accountant and Deloitte Alum, Jennifer has found her true professional calling running a world class staffing firm.
With boundless energy, this mother of triplets plus two successfully handles the demands of running a business and raising five children. If Jennifer had any spare time, she would enjoy scrapbooking, cooking, wine tasting, Lyle Lovett concerts and travel. Jennifer is a huge Star Wars fan; so much so that she embraced her inner geek with Star Wars Pop Art for the corporate office.
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