Accounting Manager

Bruegmann is the trusted partner to the world’s leading retailers & brands. Our solutions provide value to all stakeholders and deliver sustainable innovation to a dynamic retail world. Our Mision is Serving our retail partners with innovative and compelling solutions.

Job Summary:

The Finance and Accounting Manager oversees and manages all financial and accounting activities within the organization. This role is essential in ensuring accurate financial reporting, regulatory compliance, and strategic financial planning and analysis, which contribute to the company’s growth and financial success.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

Supervise and mentor a team of finance and accounting professionals.

Provide guidance, training, and performance evaluations to team members.

Foster a collaborative and high-performance culture within the accounting department.

ESSENTIAL TASKS & DUTIES:

Manage Payroll entries and reconciliations, input data into the ERP system for recording of payroll of entire organization.

Preparation and submission of various statistics and returns for outside agencies.

Manage and Supervise Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Credit Control.

Assist in provision of holiday cover for Cash Book, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Credit Control.

Work with tax consultants and Avalara to ensure proper tax management and statutory compliance for income tax, business tax, sales and use tax and all other statutory requirements.

Control and supervise Fixed Asset process, including monitoring capital expenditures, analyzing spending and reconciliations to General Ledger. Ensuring projects are capitalized on a timely basis in accordance with corporate policy and that assets are adequately identified and tracked.

Responsible for overseeing employee expenses process in concur, reconciling, accruing and booking journal entries in NetSuite related to employee corporate card expenses and or personal reimbursements.

Handle the statutory requirements of external audit, statutory accounts and tax submissions, VAT an Intrastate compliance and

Prepare various journal entries related to month end, process month-end close transactions, complete reconciliation.

Supervise month-end confirmations Bruegmann Inter-Company accounts.

Supervise and review month end activities, including bank reconciliations, accruals, cost re-allocations, Inter-company transactions, Balance Sheet cleardowns.

Manage Accounts Assistant.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:

• Follow all company safety policies and procedures.
• Respond to change productively and handle other duties as required.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Knowledge & Skills:

• A high level of knowledge and understanding of general accepted accounting principles.
• Excellent organizational and management skills, including written, oral and interpersonal.
• Demonstrates ability to analyze and establish priorities.
• Ability to communicate fluently in English.
• Demonstrated effective communication skills written oral and inter-personal.
• Demonstrated self-motivation and self-discipline traits.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task, handling frequent interruptions and shifting priorities. Exercise practical confidentiality in discussions regarding company's financial data.
• Supervisory skills.
• PC computer familiarity.
• Highly proficient in excel and MS office suite.
• NetSuite Experience preferred.
• ERP system implementation and or experience a plus.

Education Minimum Requirements/Equivalent:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• Master’s degree in accounting/ finance or CPA preferred.
• Fully qualified accountant or equivalent experience.

Experience:

• Minimum of five years of progressive accounting experience.
• Minimum 3 years in a managerial or supervisory role.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

This position requires frequent sitting with occasional standing, walking, stooping, and kneeling. There is occasional lifting/carrying of boxed paper and computer forms weighing 50 lbs. Average vision and hearing are sufficient.