Senior Accountant

The Senior Accountant is responsible for supporting the Controller in managing the financial operations of the company. This role involves overseeing accounting processes, ensuring accurate financial reporting, managing budgets, and supporting strategic financial planning. The Senior Accountant will collaborate closely with the accounting team to maintain internal controls, drive process improvements, and ensure compliance with financial regulations.

Reports to: Controller

Department:  Accounting

Classification: Hourly

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Accounting Department Responsibilities:

• Financial Reporting: Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements in accordance with GAAP/Part 32. Ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial data
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Support the budgeting process, including preparation, analysis, and reporting of financial forecasts and variance analyses
• General Ledger Management: Manage the general ledger, including month-end and year-end close processes, account reconciliations, and journal entries
• Internal Controls: Develop, implement, and maintain internal controls to safeguard company assets and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
• Audit Support: Coordinate with external auditors during annual audits and provide necessary documentation and analysis
• Process Improvement: Identify and implement opportunities for process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy in financial operations
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations, including sales and use tax, payroll tax, and other financial reporting requirements
• Special Projects: Assist with special projects and ad-hoc financial analyses as needed to support the Controller and senior management
• Inventory: Maintain accurate records of inventory transactions, including purchases, returns, transfers, and adjustments. Reconcile inventory sub-ledgers with general ledger accounts on a regular basis. Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual inventory counts and variance analysis
• Competencies: Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines. Commitment to maintaining confidentiality and integrity in financial transactions
• Team Mentorship: Provide mentoring, and professional development to the Plant Accountant and Billing & Accounting Support Specialist while fostering collaboration across departments to ensure financial processes supported operational goals and continuous improvement.
• Back up to Accounts Payable Management: Perform AP processes, ensuring accurate and timely processing of invoices, payments, and collections.  Review, verify, and process invoices, ensuring correct coding and approval in compliance with company policies.  Prepare and process electronic transfers, ACH payments, and check runs on a timely basis.  Maintain and update vendor files, address payment inquiries, and resolve discrepancies with vendors promptly

Access to Sensitive Areas and Information

• CPNI and other sensitive customer information
• Accounting offices
• Accounting and the company budget

General Qualifications

• Ethical Conduct

• Strong knowledge of GAAP and financial reporting requirements.
• Experience with ERP systems and advanced Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, VLOOKUPs).
• Excellent analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across departments.
• Experience with process improvement and internal control development is a plus

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, with at least 2 years in a supervisory or senior accountant role.
• One year of telecommunications accounting experience preferred

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibility

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position:  Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Travel

Infrequent travel is expected for this position.

AAP/EEO Statement

JBN Telephone Company, Inc. and Giant Communications, Inc. (Company) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.  In addition to federal law requirements, Company complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.  This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Company expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status.  Improper interference with the ability of Company’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.