Senior Accountant

Job Description

Senior Accountant | Talently

The Tone:
This is a hybrid Senior Accountant role at Talently’s client, located in the Greater Lansing Region, Michigan, requiring 3 days on-site. The client is an established manufacturing company seeking a hands-on accountant ready to drive accuracy and compliance across financial operations. This position offers direct visibility into how capital decisions are made at the leadership level, providing an opportunity for your SOX and GAAP expertise to genuinely shape how the company operates, rather than simply checking compliance boxes. You will join a team that prioritizes technical depth and process improvement, stepping into a strategy-adjacent leadership role within accounting that moves beyond transactional bookkeeping.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Hybrid, 3 days on-site
• Location: Hybrid, Lansing, MI
• Pay: $85000–$115000 yearly
• Mission: Own financial accuracy, compliance, and strategic influence on capital decisions and operational processes.
• Tech Stack: SAP, GAAP, SOX

What You’ll Actually Do
• Close Management: Own monthly and annual close activities, ensuring accuracy across reconciliations and reporting deliverables.
• Strategic Partnership: Partner directly with business leaders to validate capital decisions and influence how spend gets tracked and approved.
• Audit Leadership: Lead audit readiness efforts, preparing documentation and disclosures that hold up under both internal and external scrutiny.
• Process Modernization: Drive automation initiatives that cut manual effort and modernize legacy reporting processes.
• Control Design: Design and strengthen internal controls, ensuring the team stays ahead of compliance requirements rather than reacting to them.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Senior-level accounting professional with five or more years of progressive experience, specifically within a SOX-controlled and audit-ready environment. A strong working knowledge of US GAAP is essential, encompassing principles such as depreciation, capitalization, and impairment.
• Experience: Required experience includes robust proficiency with SAP and advanced Excel skills. This encompasses the ability to effectively utilize pivot tables and perform complex data modeling to support financial analysis and reporting.
• Skills: Core technical skills include expert command of SAP for financial management, deep understanding and application of US GAAP principles, and extensive experience with SOX compliance requirements. Advanced proficiency in Excel, including pivot tables and data modeling, is also critical for success in this role.
• Bonus: Preferred qualifications include holding a CPA certification or being CPA-eligible. Experience utilizing data visualization tools like Power BI, or exposure to and understanding of multiple ERP systems beyond SAP, would also be beneficial.