Senior Staff Accountant

Senior Staff Accountant

Position Summary:

As a Senior Staff Accountant, you'll play a key role in ensuring accurate financial reporting, analyzing costs, and supporting strategic business decisions. Responsibilities include partnering with plant leadership to strengthen cost controls, improve reporting processes, manage key accounting functions, and help optimize profitability across manufacturing operations.

Company Background: 

Scot Forge is a 130 year old, 100% employee-owned company that manufactures custom open die and rolled ring forgings. At Scot Forge, we help our customers with forged solutions from the world's physical infrastructure, energy, and transportation to manufacturing, mining, and our national defense. From the wheels of NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover to mission critical components for nuclear submarines, to large hydraulic cylinders for the largest mining trucks on the planet, Scot Forge creates the precision forged metal parts used in demanding applications all over the world.

Essential Position Responsibilities:

• Prepare monthly financial statements and accompanying management reports.
• Prepare journal entries and monthly recurring entries.
• Post, balance and reconcile various general ledger and subsidiary accounts.
• Perform cost accounting analysis reporting.
• Manage and maintain cash balances, execute approved wire transfers, ACH payments and book transfers.
• Capital expenditure project management and reporting.
• Prepare fixed asset records, maintaining assets in both JDE and FAS systems.
• Prepare 401k reports for weekly funding to plan administrator and download reports for payroll department.
• Commission processing, payments, and analysis.
• File appropriate tax and business reports with government agencies.
• Finance training for plant management including conducting monthly “Cost Clinics” at each plant and preparing cost quadrant information by department by plant.
• Developing new reporting matrix for costs.
• Working to improve tool crib reporting procedures and analysis of spending and inventory balances.
• Prepare year end reports for financial audit, benefit plan audit and tax return preparation.
• Prepare documents and participate in decisions relating to annual insurance renewals
• Departmental backup for Accounts Receivable transactions and Accounts Payable approval process.

Hours and Location:

Home Plant Location: Spring Grove, IL 

Hours: M-F 7AM – 5PM

Qualifications:

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related degree
• CPA License 
• Minimum 6 years prior experience. 

Desired Skills:

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (including Excel) required 
• Knowledge of JD Edwards ERP system is helpful 
• Strong written and oral communications skills.

Additional Information:

• Scot Forge requires all employees to work 100% onsite.
• Other duties as assigned 
• Must be authorized to work anywhere in the U.S. without sponsorship
• Must be able to pass a 90 day head hair drug test today.

Review of applications will begin October 26^th and continue until the position is filled. 

The estimated pay range for this position is the lowest and highest range we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We ultimately may pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. The actual base pay offered to a candidate will depend on various factors including but not limited to relevant skills, experience, qualifications, education, certifications, seniority, geographic location and prevailing minimum wage, performance, shift, travel requirements, and business or organizational needs.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for eligible employees including Medical, Vision, Dental, Hearing, Life (Basic & AD&D), Disability (STD & LTD), 401K Plan with match, Profit Sharing, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), Tax Savings (FSA & HAS), Vacation Time, Paid Time Off, and Paid Holidays.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, or any other form of compensation for any particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Scot Forge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and inclusion and welcome all qualified candidates to apply. 

We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.