Senior Accountant

Job Title:                    Senior Accountant – Portland, OR

Department:              Corporate Accounting

Reports To:                Controller

Compensation:          DOE

Organizational Background:

Columbia Grain International, LLC. is a long time established full-service grain company in the grain and pulses business. We are headquartered in Portland, Oregon and own/operate over 50 elevators and offices throughout WA, ID, MN, MT, NE and ND to support our domestic and export sales program.

We are a mid-size company with just over 450 employees overall. The employees at Columbia Grain, at all levels of our organization, represent some of the most experienced and knowledgeable in the industry. We are proud of our ability to attract and maintain talented, efficient, long term, community minded employees who can develop lasting relationships with producers and customers both domestic and around the world.

Position Description:

The primary responsibility of the Senior Accountant will be to provide financial information to management by preparing reports.  Other tasks include reviewing data and making necessary adjustments and corrections, communicating financial results to various levels of management as scheduled or requested. The Senior Accountant will work with the other members of the accounting team to work toward operational goals while maintaining quality and efficiencies.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with the controller to research and correct issues as needed.
• Maintains corporate and joint venture fixed assets on an ongoing basis, including tracking work-in-process assets, maintaining capital expenditure spreadsheets, processing asset sales/retirements, communicating with operations managers to ensure asset listings are complete, and recording depreciation/amortization expense.
• Tracks expenses and analyze month-over-month variances and communicating anomalies to management for follow up.
• Performs month-end accounting/general ledger account reconciliations.
• Prepares monthly cost accruals.
• Assists CFO and Controller with special projects.
• Helps coordinate accounting systems and internal controls.
• Collaborates with the controller to evaluate financial statement results and investigate certain areas as needed.
• Assists with year-end audit requests and documentation gathering.
• Maintain accurate supporting documentation for all work.
• Prepares daily cash reporting to assist in cash flow projections.
• Responsible for daily/monthly bank reconciliations.
• Prepare monthly sale/use/excise tax report.
• Prepares annual 1099s for reporting.
• Maintains/monitors prepaid insurance.
• Prepares payroll entries twice monthly from reports provide by HR.
• Leads/prepares broker commission invoices to be paid weekly.
• Lead fixed asset accountant
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills, Knowledge, Education and Experience: