Salary: $120,000–$130,000
Location: Remote Initially | Open to candidates only in CT, NY,
Are you an experienced accounting professional who enjoys a mix of general ledger accounting, payroll, and process improvement? This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing manufacturing organization that is expanding through acquisitions and investing heavily in its accounting infrastructure.
As the Accountant / Payroll, you'll work directly with finance leadership, play a key role in accounting and payroll operations, and help build scalable processes as the company continues to grow.
Why This Accountant / Payroll Opportunity?
- Competitive Compensation: $120K–$130K base salary with remote flexibility.
- Rapid Company Growth: Join an expanding manufacturing organization with multiple locations and an aggressive acquisition strategy.
- High Visibility: Work closely with finance leadership and have a direct impact on accounting operations.
- Systems & Process Improvements: Play an important role in the transition to NetSuite and ADP while helping standardize procedures across locations.
- Career Growth: Opportunity to take on additional responsibilities as the company expands.
- Flexible Work Arrangement: Initially remote, with occasional travel to a planned Stamford office. Candidates should be based in the tristate area by next year.
- Manage general ledger accounting, journal entries, accruals, prepaid expenses, fixed assets, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes across multiple entities.
- Assist with weekly and biweekly payroll processing for approximately 120 salaried and hourly employees across multiple locations.
- Support the transition from Rippling to ADP, including payroll reconciliations, reporting, and process improvements.
- Handle intercompany reconciliations, cash reconciliations, AP support, and account coding.
- Assist with manufacturing accounting, including inventory reconciliations, direct labor, overhead, and cost allocations.
- Help integrate newly acquired businesses into standardized accounting and payroll processes.
- Participate in the NetSuite implementation and ongoing accounting process improvements.
- Bachelor's degree required; accounting or finance concentration preferred but not required.
- Strong general ledger accounting experience, including journal entries, reconciliations, and month-end close.
- Hands-on payroll processing experience, ideally supporting hourly and salaried employees across multiple pay schedules.
- Advanced Excel skills, including lookups, formulas, and large data sets.
- Experience with ADP, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Rippling, or JobBOSS preferred.
- Manufacturing accounting, inventory, and multi-entity experience are strong pluses.
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented professional who thrives in a growing, fast-paced environment.