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Unity Meals is seeking a hands-on Senior Accountant with at least 10 years of progressive accounting experience, including strong cost accounting experience, contribution margin analysis, marginal income analysis, and product line P&L financial reporting. Hands-on ERP experience is a critical requirement for this role. The Senior Accountant must be comfortable working directly in ERP to review transactions, lead the monthly close, analyze financial data, improve reporting, and ensure accounting records are accurate and complete. This role will work closely with Unity Meals' third-party bookkeeping firm to assign work, review accounting work, validate reconciliations, support month-end close, and ensure financial reporting is accurate, timely, and aligned with GAAP. The ideal candidate understands how financial results connect to operations, production, labor, food cost, inventory, customer profitability, and cash flow. This person must be comfortable working in a fast-paced food service, food manufacturing, prepared meals, or similar operating environment. Key Responsibilities ERP Ownership & Reporting Use NetSuite ERP daily to process, review, analyze, and report financial information. Serve as a key internal accounting user for the finance team. Review transaction coding, classifications, departments, customers, products, programs, locations, and accounts for accuracy. Lead month-end close activities, reconciliations, financial reports, saved searches, and dashboards. Identify ERP reporting gaps, data accuracy issues, workflow inefficiencies, and manual workarounds. Recommend and support improvements to ERP workflows, reporting, account structure, item costing, and financial controls. Ensure financial data in ERP is reliable, complete, and useful for leadership decision-making. Review expenses and invoices for accuracy. Third-Party Accountant Coordination & Review Work closely with Unity Meals' third-party accountant on monthly accounting activities. Assign tasks required by the company to the accounting firm. Review work prepared by the third-party accountant, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, schedules, and supporting documentation. Validate that accounting entries are accurate, properly supported, and recorded in the correct period. Follow up on open items, reconciling differences, missing support, and unresolved accounting questions. Help ensure the monthly close is completed accurately and on schedule. Escalate accounting issues, risks, and delays to the VP of Finance. Support stronger communication and accountability between Unity Meals and external accounting support. Cost Accounting & Margin Analysis Support and improve cost accounting processes related to food, packaging, labor, freight, production, and overhead. Analyze product, customer level profitability. Prepare contribution margin and marginal income analysis by customer to support pricing, customer profitability, production planning, and operational decisions. Partner with Operations, Procurement, Production, and Sales to identify cost drivers and margin improvement opportunities. Monitor standard costs, actual costs, yield, waste, spoilage, labor efficiency, and purchase price variances. Help develop stronger reporting around gross margin, contribution margin, cost per meal/unit, and customer profitability. Financial Analysis & Business Support Provide financial analysis to help leadership understand drivers of revenue, margin, labor cost, food cost, waste, and operating expenses. Support budgeting, forecasting, and rolling financial projections. Prepare ad hoc financial analysis for the VP of Finance and leadership team. Assist in evaluating pricing decisions, customer profitability, production changes, and cost reduction initiatives. Translate accounting results into practical business insights for non-finance leaders. Internal Controls & Process Improvement Support stronger accounting processes, controls, and documentation. Identify and help resolve accounting process inefficiencies. Improve accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting. Support controls around inventory, purchasing, AP coding, customer billing, accruals, and cost allocations. Help establish clear documentation, review procedures, and accountability across finance-related processes. Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Accounting. Minimum of 10 years of progressive accounting experience. Hands-on ERP experience required. Experience with NetSuite preferred. Strong understanding of accounting transactions, reporting, searches, financial statements, and month-end close processes. Strong cost accounting experience required. Experience with contribution margin, marginal income, gross margin, and profitability analysis. Strong understanding of GAAP accounting principles. Experience with month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting. Experience reviewing accounting work prepared by internal teams or third-party accountants. Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, variance analysis, and large data sets. Ability to analyze financial results and explain business drivers clearly. Strong attention to detail with the ability to meet deadlines. Comfortable working cross-functionally with Operations, Procurement, Production, Sales, external accounting partners, and leadership teams.

Pay:

$90,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) Dental insurance Health insurance Paid time off

Education:

Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

Cost Accounting Standards:

5 years (Required)

NetSuite:

5 years (Required)

Hands-on ERP:

5 years (Preferred) Ability to

Commute:

Vernon, CA 90058 (Required)

Work Location:

In person