Spectrum Brands, Inc Looking for Sr. Accountant at Middleton, WI Full Time

Spectrum Brands is a home essentials company trusted by millions of consumers all over the world. Our brands improve the way people live life at home – from making their meals, looking their best and caring for their pets to and cleaning their homes and freeing their space from unwanted weeds and pests. Building on our long legacy of products from trusted brands such as FURminator®, DreamBone®, Russell Hobbs®, Tetra®, GloFish®, Remington®, Cutter®, and Spectracide®, we deliver high-quality, reliable products. We strive to use consumer insights to fuel innovation. Our long-trusted brands provide the newest solutions to improve the way people live life at home, ultimately exciting consumers. Because we are structured for growth and efficiency, we can serve more consumers, customers and stakeholders around the world every year. We are led by our values of trust, accountability and collaboration to serve others through this common mission: We make living better at home.

Spectrum Brands’ global enabling functions, including Finance, Legal, IT, Human Resources, Supply Chain, and Commercial Operations, provide enterprise-wide strategy, structure, and common processes to deliver the knowledge and expertise that helps our businesses grow. Enabling functions may operate as a center-led global team, providing a central strategy, structure, and standards; or as business partner teams, with resources embedded within the businesses to deliver business unit-specific results.

Job Summary

This Senior Accountant position is responsible for performing specialized and general accounting functions and financial reporting analysis for the North America Shared Services accounting department.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Timely completion of assigned duties and deliverables according to set monthly and quarterly close deadlines as set forth in month-end close schedules.
• Accurate and timely reconciliations of balance sheet accounts. This includes, but is not limited to, researching aged postings, ensuring supporting documentation is accurate and in compliance with company policies, and overall analysis of assigned accounts for completeness and accuracy.
• Preparation of quarterly and year-end reporting packages.
• Preparation of quarterly and year-end audit schedules.
• Accounting for contracts.
• Collaboration with management on accounting issues.
• Design, modify, and/or maintain process and procedure documentation.
• Knowledge and awareness of internal controls related to assigned duties and execution of these established internal controls.
• Assist in the development of policies, systems, special financial studies of major importance.
• All other duties/ad-hoc projects as assigned.

Education and Experience Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent experience is required
• 4 – 6 years accounting experience

Required Skills

• Knowledge of SAP system is a plus.
• Broad working knowledge of US GAAP.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to coordinate multiple tasks to meet deadlines.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Excel.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills and ability to close out issues.
• Strong attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy and analytical skills.
• Consistent performance and practices ethical, professional behavior.
• Works well independently and can work cooperatively with team members.
• Strong communication skills.

Work Environment

Working conditions are normal for an office environment.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.