Lead Accountant

The role

The Lead Accountant will lead monthly close and financial reporting across the general ledger, inventory, manufacturing cost, and intercompany eliminations. This role involves inventory and cost accounting, general ledger management, intercompany accounting, and audit controls.

What you will do

• Lead monthly inventory subledger-to-general-ledger reconciliations
• Calculate manufacturing yield losses, allocations, freight, tariffs, and other inventory costs
• Monitor inventory classification across raw materials, work in process, and finished goods
• Develop analyses of inventory movements, cost changes, manufacturing variances, yield, scrap, and excess and obsolete inventory
• Support inventory reserve, write-off, and disposition analyses and physical inventory counts
• Own payroll, bonus, and other complex accruals
• Prepare and review high-risk monthly account reconciliations
• Lead bank reconciliations and cash-related accounting
• Own monthly intercompany accounting and eliminations across international subsidiaries
• Prepare schedules and supporting documentation for internal and external audit requests

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Eight or more years of progressive accounting experience
• Deep command of U.S. GAAP, including inventory valuation and costing under ASC 330 and lease accounting under ASC 842
• Advanced NetSuite and Excel capabilities, including sophisticated financial modeling, pivot tables, lookups, data analysis
• Executive-ready written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• CPA strongly preferred
• Experience in a complex manufacturing, semiconductor, hardware, or infrastructure-intensive environment
• Experience with lease accounting is a plus

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) plans
• Life, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays
• Employee Referral Program
• 401K
• Social events (summer picnic, holiday party, team lunches, etc.)
• On-site Health & Wellness programs (fitness challenges, outdoor bootcamp, flu-shots, etc.)

About the company

Picarro is the world's leader in timely, trusted, and actionable data using enhanced optical spectroscopy. Their software and hardware are designed and manufactured in Santa Clara, California and are used in over 90 countries worldwide.