Senior Accountant

Job Summary:

Under the direction of the Controller, the Senior Accountant serves as a key contributor to MPE’s financial operations—leading accounts receivable and payable processes, overseeing ERP workflows, reporting, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of the general ledger. This role combines hands-on accounting responsibilities with process leadership, driving continuous improvement across invoicing, reconciliations, cash management, and reporting while maintaining compliance with MPE policies, accounting standards, and regulatory requirements.

Essential duties and responsibilities: 

• Lead and improve accounts receivable and payable processes in ERP. Establish, train and oversee processes with team.
  • Bring expertise and use collaborative teamwork to successfully transition accounting operations processes and team into ERP.
  • Identify and resolve process challenges in ERP, implementing improvements to correct errors and optimize workflows.
• Oversee and ensure completion of the invoicing process to ensure timeliness, accuracy and appropriate documentation. Assist with invoicing workload across team.
• Develop and implement effective collection reporting and procedures to minimize overdue accounts while maintaining positive customer relationships. Assist with collections workload across team.
• Oversee accounts payable processes to ensure timely and accurate payments; assist with invoice vouching workload across the team.
• Responsible for companywide cash and credit card reconciliation process.
• Perform cash forecasting, projecting cash balances and determining funding requirements.
• Monitor, identify, and correct posting errors and other transactional issues in ERP.
• Prepare journal entries and ensure proper documentation.
• Prepare monthly account reconciliations and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
• Assist in maintaining the general ledger, including month-end and year-end closing processes, including journal entries and reconciliations.
• Lead analysis and make determination of accounts receivables allowance for doubtful accounts for quarterly financial statements and year-end audit.
• Ownership over other key accounts such as prepaid expenses, fixed assets, goodwill, lease liabilities and others.
• Support preparation of financial statements and management reports; generate and analyze data across sales revenue, production metrics, costs, and cash flow to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support and maintain cost accounting systems, including standard costing, inventory valuation, and cost analysis to ensure accuracy in financial reporting and operational decision-making.
• Support external audits by providing necessary documentation, explanations, and timely responses to auditor inquiries.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, accounting standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Assist in the implementation and monitoring of internal controls to safeguard company assets.
• Partner with cross-functional teams—including operations, sales, and customer service—to deliver financial insights, resolve payment issues, understand product and operational costs, and support data-driven decision-making.
• Proactively identify and lead process improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of financial operations.

An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

The above list reflects the general details necessary to describe the principle and essential functions of the position and shall not be construed as the only duties that may be assigned for the position.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or similar or equivalent experience

Experience and/or Training

• 5+ Years of experience in accounting or finance
• Experience working with ERP-IFS preferred