Senior Accountant

We are looking for a Senior Accountant to join our team in Franklin, Tennessee. This position plays an important role in payroll and benefits accounting, workers' compensation reporting, and monthly close support for selected plant operations. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical ability, a detail-oriented mindset, and the confidence to work across finance, HR, payroll, and operations in a multi-entity environment.

Responsibilities:

• Manage monthly accounting activities tied to payroll, incentive compensation, and employee benefit programs, including accruals, adjustments, and period-end true-ups.
• Prepare and support reconciliations for payroll-related balance sheet accounts, ensuring all entries are accurate, timely, and fully documented.
• Work closely with HR and payroll teams to review tax reporting, deductions, garnishments, and multi-state payroll matters, resolving variances as they arise.
• Produce quarterly analysis of payroll expense trends and explain notable fluctuations to finance leadership.
• Reconcile retirement plan activity, including employee contributions, loan repayments, and company match funding.
• Review benefit and payroll vendor invoices, assign costs appropriately, and allocate expenses across plants and cost centers.
• Support plant close activities by preparing journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations related to utilities, payroll, bonuses, and other operating costs.
• Maintain workers' compensation accruals and claim-related reserves, reconcile balances to third-party data, and analyze trends that may affect future premium costs.
• Strengthen close processes through improved controls, standardized documentation, and automation initiatives that reduce manual effort and increase consistency.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and provide guidance to less experienced accounting or plant support staff when needed.