Senior Corporate Accountant

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Wyoming
Posted on: October 23, 2024

Job Description:

Welcome to Gordon Food Service! We are excited that you are thinking about opportunities with us, and we have an amazing story to share. See below for a quick glance of who we are and the impact you could have on the food service industry. There's a seat at our table for you...Gordon Food Service is hiring an Senior Corporate Accountant. Develops, interprets, and implements complex financial and accounting concepts, or techniques for financial planning and control. Supports the general ledger closing cycle, fixed asset management, inventory control management, financial statement reporting, and projects requiring financial expertise.Responsibilities:

• Researches, interprets, documents and recommends corporate financial policies, emerging accounting issues, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP); provides training to team members on these policies and standards as needed.
• Ensures a high level of integrity is maintained within the general ledger and financial statements.
• Completes North American consolidated financial statements with related charts and graphs.
• Prepares and organizes data for audit including GAAP financial statements with footnotes.
• Point of contact for external auditors.
• Prepares due diligence, analyses and supporting schedules, and accounting for company mergers and acquisitions.
• Analyzes financial and non-financial information to identify trends or concerns, providing recommendations to leadership to improve present and future financial performance.
• Compiles data to report Company financial information for industry, bank and government reporting.
• Evaluates alternatives and recommends process improvement solutions based on business needs and financial analyses.
• Works closely with FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) department to support the annual budget and long range plan (LRP) processes.
• Acts as support role for team and management, and may review other team members' work.
• Performs other duties as assigned by Senior Leadership.Ideal candidate will have:
  • Must have knowledge of general ledger accounting, cost accounting and analysis, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and internal control analysis and implementation. Must know advanced principles of analysis, reporting, and information valuation, must understand process improvement strategies, and be technologically adaptable.
  • Experience manipulating large amounts of data.
  • Works in a way that supports the GFS Cornerstone Values. This includes on-going demonstration of a customer-service attitude; cooperation and respect for others; open-mindedness; integrity; initiative; value consciousness; and strong motivation toward company, team, and individual results.
  • Advanced proficiency with excel (pivots, macro's, lookup's)
  • Able to investigate and problem solve.
  • High attention to detail and integrity of data.
  • Excellent written, verbal, organizational and communication skills.
  • Able to work independently or within a team environment.
  • Able to adapt to various forms of technology.
  • Applies common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form; detects problems or opportunities; gathers and organizes all relevant information; identifies underlying issues or problems; recognizes trends; and identifies cause-effect relationships. Commits to action after developing alternative courses of action that are based on logical assumptions and factual information and that take into considerations resources, constraints, and organizational values: informs or collaborates with others as appropriate.Experience:
    • Bachelor degree required Accounting
    • Minimum five years previous accounting experience, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.Location:
      • 1300 Gezon Pkwy, Wyoming MI 49509
      • Hybrid Schedule 3 days in office 2 days remote
      • Monday to Friday
      • 8 am to 5 pmAdherence to Hybrid Work Policy: Adherence to the company's hybrid work policy is an essential function of the Senior Corporate Accountant. The policy is subject to change, and employees will be required to adhere to those changes as a condition of their continued employment.BE PART OF AN AMAZING CULTURE WHERE WHAT MATTERS TO YOU, MATTERS TO US!Gordon Food Service values our customers and understands that their success is largely dependent upon their workforce. To demonstrate our commitment to our partnership, we will require any candidate who works for a Gordon Food Service customer to provide a letter of support from their management if they are selected for the interview process.Gordon Food Service is an equal opportunity employer.All qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment, or in terms or conditions of employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. The EEO is the Law poster is available here: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf. If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, please submit your request to talent@gfs.com and use the words "Accommodation Request" in your subject line. Please keep in mind this method is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability.All Gordon Food Service locations are tobacco-free.Gordon Food Service is a drug-free workplace and drug tests all employees.

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