Talon Hiring Solutions has a client in the greater Seneca, South Carolina area that is looking for a Accounting Supervisor to join the team. In this role will lead key accounting operations and help ensure the accuracy, integrity, and timeliness of financial results. Oversee accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), general ledger (GL), financial reporting, and the month-end close process while developing a team focused on accuracy, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. This role serves as a key resource for accounting systems and processes, strengthen internal controls, support audit readiness, and identify opportunities to streamline and automate financial operations.
What you will do:
Accounting Operations & Financial Reporting
- Lead and support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting.
- Prepare, review, and post journal entries in accordance with established accounting policies, approval requirements, and close schedules.
- Prepare and review monthly account reconciliations, investigate variances, and ensure reconciling items are resolved and documented timely.
- Coordinate financial reporting activities and data loads, including OneStream support for actual and quarter-end reporting.
- Ensure transactions are accurately recorded in the appropriate accounting periods and general ledger accounts.
Accounts Payable & Accounts Receivable Leadership
- Oversee daily AP and AR operations, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, timely processing, and strong customer service.
- Manage supplier invoice processing, credit memos, payment requests, payment releases, vendor maintenance, and resolution of payment discrepancies.
- Oversee customer payment processing, cash application, credit adjustments, customer account maintenance, and resolution of unapplied cash and disputed balances.
- Monitor AP and AR aging, account reconciliations, and account analyses, ensuring appropriate follow-up on outstanding balances.
- Ensure compliance with purchasing, payment authorization, revenue recognition, and general ledger requirements.
Internal Controls, Compliance & Audit Readiness
- Maintain effective internal controls and appropriate segregation of duties across accounting processes.
- Ensure compliance with SOX requirements, corporate accounting policies, local procedures, and applicable accounting standards.
- Perform assigned control activities and maintain accurate, complete, and audit-ready documentation.
- Coordinate internal and external audit requests, including reconciliations, reports, supporting documentation, data extracts, and audit responses.
- Identify root causes of control or process issues and implement sustainable corrective actions.
Financial Systems, Technology & Process Improvement
- Serve as a finance key user and subject matter resource for SAP, supporting system enhancements, approval workflows, issue resolution, testing, and assigned SAP committees.
- Support and maintain finance applications and reporting tools, including SAP, OneStream, ADP reporting tools, Concur, Citibank, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365.
- Maintain and improve finance forms, reports, workflows, and SharePoint solutions.
- Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, and simplify accounting processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, internal controls, and the overall user experience.
- Develop and maintain process documentation, train users, and support the implementation and adoption of new tools and procedures.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, coach, and develop AP and AR team members through regular communication, one-on-one meetings, training, and ongoing feedback.
- Establish priorities, assign responsibilities, balance workloads, and monitor team performance and service levels.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, customer service, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
- Communicate department priorities, challenges, resource needs, and progress to management.
- Promote cross-training, knowledge sharing, process documentation, and backup coverage to ensure continuity of critical accounting activities.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- At least five (5) years of progressive accounting experience, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, financial close, reporting, and account reconciliations.
- Previous supervisory, team leadership, or employee development experience preferred.
- Manufacturing accounting experience preferred.
Technical Knowledge & Systems Expertise
- Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, internal controls, SOX compliance, financial reporting, account reconciliations, and accounting best practices.
- Proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Excel.
- Experience with OneStream, ADP reporting tools, Concur, Citibank, SharePoint, Power Apps, Power Automate, or similar financial and business applications is beneficial.
- Ability to evaluate accounting processes, identify improvement opportunities, and leverage technology to drive efficiency and accuracy.
Leadership & Core Competencies
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to coach, motivate, develop, and hold team members accountable.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments and all levels of the organization.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, meet strict financial deadlines, and maintain a high level of accuracy in a deadline-driven environment.
- Demonstrated commitment to confidentiality, integrity, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.