DescriptionJob Title: Manager, Technical Accounting and Reporting
Reports To: Controller
FLSA Status: Exempt
Status: Full-Time
Department: Accounting & Finance
Program/Entity: Tarbell Management Group
Location: Hogansburg, NY/ Remote in New York
Job Summary Tarbell Management Group (TMG) is seeking a highly organized Manager, Technical Accounting and Reporting to support technical accounting, financial reporting, and close activities across a growing, multi-entity organization operating in manufacturing, distribution, retail, and related industries.
This role is well suited for a finance professional with public accounting experience and demonstrated industry experience supporting operational businesses. In addition to strong technical accounting capability, the successful candidate will bring exceptional organizational skills and a commitment to building structure, consistency, and discipline within financial processes and data.
Serving as a senior individual contributor, the Manager, Technical Accounting and Reporting will help create and maintain a highly organized accounting environment by driving standardization across entities, improving data quality, strengthening documentation, and supporting scalable accounting processes. The role provides technical guidance and mentorship but does not have direct supervisory responsibility.
Primary Responsibilities (includes but is not limited to) - Partner with the Controller to coordinate and improve the monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes.
- Drive improvements to close efficiency, account reconciliations, financial reporting, and supporting documentation.
- Monitor new and emerging accounting guidance and evaluate its applicability to TMG.
- Research complex or non-routine transactions and prepare clear, well-supported technical accounting memoranda.
- Maintain documentation supporting significant accounting policies, estimates, judgments, and conclusions.
- Communicate technical accounting conclusions to Accounting, Finance, operational leadership, and external auditors.
- Partner with the Controller and Director of FP&A to prepare complete, GAAP-compliant financial statements for each entity on a standalone basis and for the organization on a consolidated basis, including appropriate eliminations and supporting schedules.
- Assist with financial statement audits, auditor requests, and the preparation of organized, audit-ready support.
- Help design, document, implement, and maintain internal controls, accounting policies, procedures, and process narratives.
- Support ERP implementation, reporting, close-management, and automation initiatives to increase scalability, consistency, and efficiency.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to accounting team members while promoting consistent documentation, reconciliation, and reporting standards.
- Help develop standardized account structures, reporting hierarchies, master-data governance practices, and financial processes across multiple entities.
- Drive consistency in accounting practices, account reconciliations, documentation standards, and audit trails across the organization.
Minimum Qualifications - Four-year bachelor's degree in accounting from an institutionally accredited college or university
- CPA required; candidates actively pursuing certification may be considered.
- Minimum of five years of progressive accounting experience.
- At least two years of public accounting experience with a Big Four, national, or comparable regional firm, or equivalent technical accounting/reporting experience in a complex organization
- Experience researching and applying U.S. GAAP to complex or nonroutine transactions.
- Experience preparing GAAP-compliant financial statements.
- Experience working in a complex, multi-entity organization with multiple operating business lines
- Strong understanding of month-end close, financial reporting, account reconciliations, internal controls, risk management, and the COSO framework.
- Exceptional organizational and project-management skills with strong attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to create structure and bring order to complex accounting processes, data sets, and reporting environments.
- Strong documentation skills, including the development of policies, procedures, accounting memoranda, and process narratives.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and organization.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
Preferred Qualifications - A master's degree in accounting or taxation.
- Experience in manufacturing, distribution, retail, franchise, or another inventory-intensive business.
- Experience with close-management platforms such as FloQast or BlackLine, ERP systems such as Sage 300, and financial planning or reporting platforms such as Vena.
- Experience with Power Query or similar reporting and data-transformation tools.
- Experience authoring technical accounting memoranda and related documentation.
- Experience supporting ERP implementations, financial-system enhancements, or accounting-process automation.
Physical & Work Environment Requirements - Regularly use a computer, keyboard, mouse, phone, and office equipment for extended periods.
- Frequently sit, stand, walk, reach, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Must be able to review detailed financial information, reports, reconciliations, and supporting documentation with accuracy and attention to detail.
- May occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull office materials weighing up to 15 pounds, with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Work is generally performed in a professional office environment with standard office noise levels and frequent computer-based work.
