Senior GL Accountant
Description
Company Snapshot:
Born in Miami more than twenty-five years ago, Tuuci is the global leader in premium shade and placemaking products for hospitality, commercial, and residential outdoor settings. From locations in North America, Europe and Asia, our teams strive to meet and exceed the Tuuci vision: to help people live their best life outdoors through inspiring design, enduring performance, and convivial service. We work in a fun, fast-paced, and diverse environment in which close collaboration and the spirited exchange of ideas are encouraged. Our culture supports our vision by encouraging creativity, driving excellence, and supporting personal growth and development.
Position Summary:
As a pivotal member of the accounting team, the Senior Accountant will play a crucial role in ensuring cohesive financial operations. Collaborating closely with accounts receivable, accounts payable, and costing/inventory departments, they will lead accounting functions related to SALT, Fixed/Intangible assets, prepaids, and other non-AP liabilities. Responsibilities encompass maintaining the close calendar, ensuring timely financial reporting, and fostering cooperation among team members to adhere to an accelerated close schedule. The Senior Accountant will actively engage in root cause analysis to drive continuous improvements, working cross-functionally to address exceptions and projects. Additionally, they will oversee audit engagements with external firms, ensuring efficiency and accuracy in both interim and year-end audits. This role offers ample opportunities for professional growth by facilitating enhancements in peer areas such as AP, AR, costing, and participating in budgeting/planning processes.
Reporting Relationships:
The Senior GL Accountant will report to the Controller.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with the 3 other areas in accounting, which are accounts receivable, accounts payable and costing/inventory.
- Lead the accounting in areas outside of the focuses above, including SALT, Fixed/Intangible assets, prepaids and other (non-AP) liabilities.
- Maintain the close calendar and seek the cooperation of other team members to adhere to an accelerated close schedule.
- Prior to reporting, ensure the close process terminates in a complete financial dataset – both at the fiduciary and the department level.
- Work both cross-functionally and “upstream” to seek out root cause on an exception/project basis and seek continual improvements.
- Coordinate the audit engagement with our outside firm to ensure a timely and efficient engagement – both the interim and year-end.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting from a four-year university.
- 3-5 years of work experience
- Willingness, and even a preference, to work onsite M-F
- Intermediate Excel skills and general comfort with Microsoft Suite (ex. Outlook, Teams, etc.)
Preferred Skills:
- Manufacturing/costing experience.
- Prior experience in consumer products or other industries with strong product development culture.
- Analytical/technical/process mindset would be helpful and could facilitate a leadership role in costing.
Tuuci Offers:
- Welcoming friendly environment
- Culture that encourages diversity of thought
- Support for professional growth and development.
- Dynamic and talented staff of creative professionals
- Collaborative environment that welcomes innovative ideas and allows you to make an immediate impact on the team.
- Health benefits, matching 401k retirement plan, paid holidays, sick days, personal days
ABOUT TUUCI
For more than 26 years, Tuuci® has revolutionized outdoor living spaces with durable, innovative shade and furniture products featuring nautically inspired designs. Founded by Dougan Clarke in 1998, the Ultimate Umbrella Company, Inc., (simply known as “Tuuci”), was born from his seaside roots in Miami, where Clarke began his career as a marine outfitter for high performance yachts.
With a keen eye on design and a passion for form and function, Clarke applied his craftsmanship to the shade industry to create Tuuci’s unique brand of marine grade shade architecture. Today, Tuuci’s distinctive, award-winning parasol designs, luxury indoor-outdoor furniture, cabanas and pergolas, and space-making accessories are experienced around the world and sought by leading design professionals within the commercial, hospitality and residential design communities.
Globally headquartered in Miami, the company owns two additional manufacturing centers in Northern Europe and Southeast Asia, and operates showrooms in Miami, Chicago, Atlanta and The Netherlands.
Tuuci’s sense of community is a cornerstone of the company’s foundation, providing charitable outreach across a host of environmental and humanitarian concerns. The company’s mission is to help people live their best life outdoors through inspiring design, enduring performance, and convivial service.