About the Role We are seeking a detail-oriented, analytical, and bilingual (English/Spanish) Senior Accountant based in Florida to join our finance team in support of U.S & Mexico operations. In this role, you will serve as a key financial steward - responsible for managing the general ledger, overseeing month-end close processes, and ensuring full compliance with Mexican regulatory requirements, including IVA (Impuesto al Valor Agregado) and SAT obligations.
You will act as a critical liaison between the U.S.-based finance organization and local cross-functional teams in Mexico, ensuring accurate financial record-keeping, audit readiness, and tax compliance across both jurisdictions. This position requires some local and international travel.
What You'll Do
General Ledger & Financial Reporting - Prepare and review journal entries, ensuring accurate and timely month-end close processes in compliance with internal policies.
- Assist in preparing financial statements, including balance sheets and income statements, and perform variance analysis to support business decisions.
- Conduct monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts including cash, prepaid expenses, accruals, and fixed assets.
- Maintain and develop accounting policies, providing guidance to key stakeholders across the organization.
Cost Accounting - Own standard costing and cost roll processes; maintain BOMs and routings in the ERP to ensure product costs are current and accurate.
- Calculate and analyze manufacturing variances (purchase price, usage, labor efficiency, overhead absorption); present findings to ops and supply chain leadership with recommended corrective actions.
- Support inventory accounting including FIFO/standard cost maintenance and cycle count reconciliations.
- Partner with FP&A on cost-to-produce modeling, make-vs-buy analysis and margin improvement initiatives.
Operations Business Partnering - Serve as the dedicated Finance partner to operations, supply chain and/or plant management - attending ops reviews and translating financial data into language that drives decisions.
- Build and maintain operational dashboards tracking KPIs such as cost per unit, scrap rates and labor productivity; flag trends before they hit the P&L.
- Support capital expenditure requests - build the ROI model, track spend against authorization and close out projects to fixed assets on time.
- Assist in the annual budget and quarterly reforecast for COGS and operating expenses; hold budget owners accountable to their numbers with clear, fact-based reporting
Mexico Tax & Regulatory Compliance - Own end-to-end management of Mexico's Value Added Tax (VAT), including calculation, collection, reconciliation, reporting, and filings.
- Ensure compliance with all local (Mexico) and federal (U.S.) tax regulations; assist with tax return filings and audits across both jurisdictions.
- Monitor legislative and regulatory changes to VAT rules and proactively update internal processes to maintain compliance.
- Coordinate with external tax advisors and legal counsel as needed
Audit Preparation & Internal Controls - Lead the preparation of schedules and documentation required for internal and external audits, including substantiation of completeness, existence, and valuation of financial statement balances.
- Support local financial audits in Mexico as well as U.S.-facing audit requirements, ensuring documentation is complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
- Identify and escalate control deficiencies; assist in remediation efforts to strengthen internal controls and financial governance.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Projects - Serve as the primary liaison between the U.S. finance department and Mexico-based business units, ensuring accurate financial record-keeping and adherence to organizational policies.
- Collaborate with operations, legal, HR, and other departments to provide financial insights and resolve accounting matters.
- Support ad-hoc financial analysis and special projects as directed by senior finance leadership.
- Travel approximately 20% - including to CA headquarters and other locations - to support team collaboration, audits, and business reviews.
Qualifications
- CPA Required
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish strongly preferred (spoken and written)
- 7-10 years of progressive experience in general ledger accounting; experience in a complex, multinational environment strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience managing Mexico VAT, including filing, reconciliation, collection, and regulatory compliance.
- Strong knowledge of local and federal Mexican tax regulations for financial compliance standards.
- Proven experience preparing for and supporting financial audits - both local Mexican audits and U.S. GAAP audits.
- Hands-on experience with NetSuite (ERP); proficiency is required.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, financial modeling) and the broader Microsoft Office suite.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Willingness and ability to travel approximately 20%, including internationally to the United States.
- Experience working in a U.S.-owned company with Mexico-based operations - strongly preferred
Key Competencies- Analytical Thinking - ability to interpret financial data, identify discrepancies, and produce actionable insights.
- Attention to Detail - high degree of accuracy in journal entries, reconciliations, and compliance filings.
- Communication - strong interpersonal skills to translate financial concepts for non-finance audiences in both English and Spanish.
- Leadership & Ownership - proactive self-starter who takes full ownership of responsibilities with minimal supervision.
- Adaptability - comfortable managing multiple deadlines and shifting priorities in a dynamic, cross-border environment.
