Accounting Manager

We are looking for an Accounting Manager! 

• Do you have experience as an Accounting Manager?
• Do you know your way around general ledgers and regulatory reporting?
• Do you have experience working at a financial institution?

If so, we invite you to consider a career at American 1 Credit Union. Below are more details before you decide to apply:

• Position: Accounting Manager
• Location: On-site in Jackson, Michigan
• Starting Salary: $85,750 - based on experience and qualifications
• Benefits start on day one: Health, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off
• All offers of employment are contingent upon background screens

The Accounting Manager is responsible for all operational activities of the Accounting department. They oversee day-to-day operations across all accounting functions, including accounts payable, item processing, general ledger transactions, balancing, reconciliations, regulatory reporting, and analysis management. The Accounting Manager is dedicated to working with the VP of Finance and CFO to create and sustain a culture filled with people who are Focused, Engaged, Trustworthy, Humbly Confident, and driven to Achieve. The Accounting Manager collaborates with the Accounting team and other teams to ensure timelines and goals are achieved.

 Essential Job Functions:

• Focus on Purpose: Focused on the credit union's purpose of creating financial wellness in our community through everyday banking with an emphasis on our internal team development.
• Lead, Manage, and Accountability: Committed to leading and managing in a way that creates an environment in which accountable employees thrive, and non-accountable people choose to leave. Effectively uses the people analyzer to find the right people and the right seats.
• Team Collaboration: Collaborates with Accounting, Finance, and all other necessary teams in all discussions relevant to the management of the credit union’s short- and long-term goals and objectives and communicates such goals and objectives to credit union staff members. 
• Accounting Team Management: Manages the day-to-day accounting operations of the credit union, including accounts payable, general ledger transactions, balancing, item processing, and reconciliations. Responsible for managing the credit union’s reporting and analysis functions and preparing performance reports for Executive Management.  Supports management in external audit processes.
• Continued Growth Support: Supports the Accounting team in assessment, reporting, coaching, training, accountability and improvement plan recommendations for the department and individuals as needed. 
• Safety and Soundness:   Monitors the credit union’s safety and soundness through compliant accounting practices and financial oversight, ensuring compliance with all policies and procedures and federal and state laws, rules, regulations, and industry best practices.  
• Employee Culture: Committed to building and supporting an engaging and inclusive culture for all. 

 Competencies Required:

• People-focused and Strong Communication: Empathetically seeks understanding of what members and employees require and expect and uses available resources, policies, and opportunities in their best interest without compromising institutional core values or core focus.
• Achiever, Initiative, and Goal Driven: The employee drives for results and success, is committed to their job, sets high performance standards, pursues aggressive goals, works hard to achieve them, displays a high level of effort and commitment to work, and takes ownership. Applies new ways of thinking; creates new ideas.   Plans work and carries out tasks without detailed instructions; makes constructive suggestions; prepares for problems or opportunities in advance; undertakes additional responsibilities; responds to situations as they arise with minimal supervision; creates novel solutions to problems.
• Focused, Decision-making and Problem-Solving: Has a strong sense of urgency about proactively solving problems and getting work done; gains support by collaborating effectively for ideas, proposals, projects, and solutions; takes initiative; makes and facilitates decisions considering the impact on others and the credit union; reaches sound decisions and exercises good judgment based on balanced consideration of facts, priorities, and alternatives; makes decisions in agreed upon time frame; take initiative to identify and resolve problems; demonstrate ability to examine existing problems/issues in new ways.
• Leadership, Management, and Accountability: Demonstrates institutional responsibility, administrative skill, and a commitment to and a vision for public service; achieves positive outcomes by encouraging, supporting, coaching, developing, and mentoring others. Committed to ensuring financial integrity by strategically overseeing accounting processes and implementing effective controls, while actively managing day-to-day operations to maintain accuracy, compliance, and timely reporting.
• Engaged and Collaborative: Has the capacity to create an achievable vision for the future by engaging and collaborating with the Finance team, to foresee longer-term developments, to envision options (and their probable consequences), to select sound courses of action, to rise above the day-to-day detail, to challenge the status quo.
• Trustworthy, Reliability, and Confidentiality: Personally responsible; completes work in a timely, consistent manner; works hours necessary to complete assigned work; is regularly present and punctual; arrives prepared for work; is committed to doing the best job possible; keeps commitments.  Able to keep all information obtained confidential, including member, employee, and credit union information. Ensures core processes, policies, and procedures are followed.

Key Accountability Items:

• Lead, Manage, Accountability
• Financial/General Ledger Management
• Accounts Payable Processing Management
• Regulatory Reporting and Analysis Management
• Item Processing/Adjustment Processing Management

Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• 4-5 years of related experience in a financial institution is required. 
• At least two years of management experience is required.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Word is required
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel (formulas, functions, etc.) is required.

 The Ideal Candidate:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of PC applications such as Microsoft Office
• Ability to work independently or as a collaborative member of a team
• Ability to direct other team members and coach others 
• Knowledge of credit union products, services, policies, core processes and procedures
• Ability to provide supervisory leadership of professional- and intermediate-level staff
• Demonstrated member-focused strategy skills
• Demonstrated skill in gathering, reporting, and summarizing trends in data
• Ability to express oneself clearly and articulately both orally and in writing
• Ability to make decisions and take initiative in problem resolution
• Ability to exercise tact and responsibility when handling confidential information.

NOTE:  The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their typical responsibilities occasionally, as needed.