Senior Staff Accountant
About Caliper
Caliper Foods was founded in 2015 on the belief that cannabinoids represent a major new category in functional ingredients. Today, we offer safe and standardized hemp-derived soluble cannabinoids to consumers and manufacturers alike. Our consumer division, Caliper Consumer, produces and sells Caliper CBD and Caliper Swiftsticks online and in retail channels nationwide. Our ingredients division, Caliper Ingredients, produces standardized, soluble cannabinoid ingredients for CPG companies that care about compliance. Finally, our sister company, Stillwater Brands, makes and sells Ripple, a leading THC edibles brand in Colorado (and Michigan soon!).
About the Job
We are looking for a Senior Staff Accountant to help our Finance & Accounting Team provide timely business performance data to Leadership to help drive decision making. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing the month end close process and ensuring timeliness and accuracy of our financial statements. The candidate will also be heavily involved in building out audit-ready processes. They will know how to work quickly and accurately, even while under pressure, and will have a thorough understanding of US GAAP accounting principles and the month-end close process.
To succeed in this role, you must be the type of person who can jump into situations cold, quickly figure out what’s going on, and then plan a path from confusion to order. You should be the type of person who takes pride in creating and managing a bulletproof set of workpapers to support our growing business. When faced with ambiguity, your first instinct should be to pause and think, not panic or shut down. You should love creating order and process.
Your initial responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
Accounting
Focusing on balance sheet reconciliations and creating supporting workpapers that provide an audit trail
Create monthly P&L variance analysis and provide commentary of the monthly results
Perform month-end duties and coordinate and deliver during our 3-day accounting close
Support the accounting and finance team members with all ad-hoc requests
Build strong relationships within the team and across the organization
Oversee all audit cycles (ie: cash, AP, AR, fixed assets)
Proactively identifying, monitoring, developing, documenting and implementing policies, procedures, and processes to effectively meet the challenges of rapid growth while ensuring that the information provided is relevant, accurate, timely, and in accordance with Company policy
Assess internal controls and compliance in following company practices and procedures pertaining to setting standard costs, assessing and adjusting excess and obsolete inventory, identifying production order variances, reconciling accounts, and other efforts related to inventory and cost accounting
Support and prepare various analyses for internal and external tax and audit teams
What we’ll love about you:
A process-oriented problem solver who can manage complex situations without panicking
An organized, proactive nature that loves building systems and tools
An emotionally mature adult who prefers to work with other emotionally mature adults
A willingness to admit error quickly and move immediately on to improvement
Excellent time management skills
Ability to work well in a team environment while focusing on individual tasks and priorities
A dependable self-starter with the ability to balance and progress multiple projects at once
What you’ll love about us:
We are a team of competent, motivated, diverse, and decent adults.
We are a company, not a cult. We expect you to put in an honest day’s work and then go home to your family.
We offer competitive compensation, 100% paid health benefits, sick leave, 401k, and a fun, relaxed office environment.
We value reasoned debate over political maneuvering. We try to do the right thing and, more importantly, we try to identify and admit when we don’t.
We offer flexible PTO for all full-time employees. We too value health, relaxation, and spending time with friends and family.
Fire drills are the exception, not the norm.
For more details on the culture we foster, visit: http://bit.ly/2F5zhPt
Qualifications:
Bachelor Degree in Accounting
2-5 years accounting experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment
Strong knowledge of MS Excel, Quickbooks Online, and Google Sheets; expert-level Pivot Table skills a plus
Excellent analytical and communication skills
Superior attention to detail
Proof of COVID-19 vaccination required
Compensation: $55-$72k/year