Senior Accountant

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Company Overview

At Komatsu, we lead the construction and heavy equipment industry with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions that enhance efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Komatsu Company-Owned Dealers East operates eleven Company-Owned branch locations in the NJ, NY, PA, MD, and DE region.  To learn more about Komatsu Company-Owned Dealers, visit our website!  If you would like to hear what our employees think about working for Komatsu, watch our Employee Testimonials.

What Komatsu Offers

• Industry competitive wages
• Day 1 Medical, Dental, Vision, Life & Disability Benefits
• Employee discounts to Ford, GMC, Disney, AT&T, Verizon and more
• Employee recognition, career development opportunities, and excellent job security
• Ability to be a part of an exciting, innovative company developing new state-of-the-art technology and equipment

Job Overview

Responsible for various financial functions, including month-end close tasks, assistance with budgets and forecasts, support of local management teams with analysis and interpretation of financial results, and collaboration with other finance stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely reporting and adherence to internal controls and compliance requirements. Drive continuous improvements to the month-end close process, balance sheet and key expense account reconciliation processes and reporting, and systems utilization to effectively operate in this capacity and allow our accounting function to continually improve and become more efficient.  Serve as the key Business Partner to our General Managers and Accounting Team to provide insight and recommendations to help drive the strategy, goals, and objectives of the company.   

Scope

Komatsu Company-Owned Dealers East generates annual revenue of $350M from the the sale, rental and support of new and used construction, mining, and utility equipment across six states from Maryland to Connecticut. Total assets are $270M, including approx. $185M in equipment inventory and rental fleet, and PPE balance of $55M.  This business includes the management of Construction, Mining, and Utility customers which differ in product lines, contract terms, and volume utilizing ERP system called CDK. This position will work out of our Hatfield, PA office four days of the week, and one day remote.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Month End Close: Lead and drive month end close, balance sheet reconciliations, and key judgements and estimates.  Ensure complex accounting transactions are processed according to US GAAP and company policies and proactively search for resolutions to issues. Analyze and drive the review of month end results against budget, forecast and prior year; anticipating questions and providing actionable commentary on what is driving the numbers.  
• Variance Analysis:  Responsible for reviewing analysis of company financial results including monthly report out vs. benchmarks (e.g., plan, forecast, etc.)
• Collaborate with Accounting Managers to provide best practices and continual improvement opportunities in support of Regional operations teams.   
• Anticipate, analyze issues and approaches within assignments and tasks. Recommend, summarize, and present proposed corrective actions or process enhancements.  Drive the implementation of the results with accounting department and regional business leaders.   
• Compliance & JSOX:  Responsible for Balance Sheet and Key Income Statement account analysis, reconciliation.
• Assistance with oversight and management of compliance with federal, state, and local government statutes and regulations and related internal (JSOX) and external audits and documentation. 
• Regional Operations Support:  Create comprehensive reports and insightful analyses (anticipating issues and questions) using high level skills in Excel, charting, graphing, pivot tables, VLOOKUP, Crystal reports, and demonstrate knowledge of ERP systems.
• Initiative / Project Work:  Performs ad hoc requests and analysis along with leading special projects required to achieve company goals and increase overall company profitability.  Must be able to apply the seven principles of the KOMATSU Way to their everyday work activities where applicable.
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