Sr Staff Accountant

Senior Staff Accountant

Reports to the Global Controller and CFO

Full-Time

No Travel Required

May work remotely on occasion Mostly on Site in Mt Prospect IL

We are looking for a detail-oriented senior accountant to perform and coordinate accounting duties within our organization. The senior accountants responsibilities include preparing financial reports performing account reconciliations maintaining the general ledger preparing tax returns assisting with audit preparations and performing other accounting duties as assigned.

To be successful as a senior accountant you should have a solid working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and strong financial analysis skills. An outstanding senior accountant should also possess strong Excel skills be detail-oriented highly organized and able to work with little to no supervision and perform under pressure.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Coordinating accounting functions and programs.
• Preparing financial analyses and reports.
• Preparing revenue projections and forecasting expenditure.
• Assisting with preparing and monitoring budgets.
• Month end and account reconciliations
• Maintaining and reconciling balance sheet and general ledger accounts using cost accounting
• Assisting with annual audit preparations.
• Inventory management in Manufacturing
• Investigating and resolving audit findings account discrepancies and issues of non-compliance.
• Preparing federal state local and special tax returns.
• Contributing to the development of new or amended accounting systems programs and procedures.
• Performing other accounting duties and supporting junior staff as required or assigned.

Education & Skills Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in accounting or finance required.
• 3 years of accounting experience.
• CPA is preferred
• Working knowledge of tax laws and GAAP.
• Strong financial analysis skills.
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.
• Strong organizational and stress management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office particularly with Excel.
• Strong Excel skills is a must
• Ability to train and manage staff.
• Ability to work with little to no supervision.

Company Description:

Lapmaster International LLC is a leading international precision machine tool builder headquartered in Chicagos Northwest suburbs near OHare Airport. Our diverse team works with a broad variety of industries and technologies. Our technical expertise includes Motion Control Robotics Automation Machine Design and Application Engineering. Our customers include small mid-sized and Fortune 100 companies in a variety of industries including Automotive Aerospace Semiconductor Electronics Bearings Optics/Electro-optics Pumps Valves Compressors and Medical Devices. Our business model is to utilize leading technologies and exceptional engineering talent coupled with outstanding customer service to solve manufacturing and precision machining problems.

Since 1948 industry has relied on Lapmaster to solve the most challenging precision surfacing problems. With over 60 years of experience Lapmaster has a proven history of successfully developing cost effective processing solutions for virtually any application requiring precision sizing flatness parallelism roundness straightness or surface finish. Lapmaster serves the Fine Grinding Advanced Materials Precision Optics Bore Honing and Finishing Lapping/Polishing and Metallographic markets through an expanding network of sales and services offices located throughout the world. Sales and technical service is available either through local Lapmaster Sales Representative or through our main Sales and Technical Services Centers located in Mount Prospect IL Plymouth UK Chennai India Tokyo Japan and Shenyang China.

Competitive Benefits Package for Full Time employees:

• 401(k) with Matching
• Medical Insurance (Company contribution for Dependents)
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Company Paid Life & AD&D
• Vacation Sick Holidays
• EAP

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or at any time in the future

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer (EEO)

It is the policy at Lapmaster International to provide equal employment opportunities and affirmative action to all qualified individuals. All personnel actions including but not limited to compensation benefits recruitment hiring training and promotion of persons in all job titles are administered without regard to race color sex sexual orientation gender identity age religion national origin protected veteran or disability status and all employment decisions are based solely on valid job addition employees and applicants are protected from harassment threats coercion intimidation or discrimination

EEO is the Law (English)

Recruiter Policy:

Lapmaster International LLC (aka Precision Surfacing Solutions) the Company has an internal recruiting function. The Company may supplement that internal capability from time to time with assistance from temporary staffing agencies placement services and professional recruiters (Agency). Agencies are hereby specifically directed NOT to contact employees of the Company directly in an attempt to present candidates. The Companys policy is for the internal recruiting team or other authorized personnel to present ALL candidates to hiring unsolicited resumes sent to Lapmaster International LLC from a third party such as an Agency including unsolicited resumes sent to a Company mailing address fax machine or email address directly to Company employees or to the resume database will be considered Company property. Lapmaster International LLC will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Lapmaster International LLC will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.

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