To apply, please send a resume and cover e-mail to: hr@indigosigns.com
Separate application form on the website is NOT necessary for this position.
About Indigo Signs
Our customers invest immense resources into the creation and nurturing of their extraordinary brand. Our customers entrust us to provide a physical representation of their brand that communicates its value and meaning in a visually impactful manner. We also enable our customers' relationship with their patrons and employees with signage throughout their entire footprint.
As each customer's need is entirely custom, Indigo Signs provides the complete set of services to our customers as we consult, design, fabricate, install and service their brand. We work regionally from our locations in North Dakota and Minnesota.
Indigo Signs continually strives to meet our aspirational IMAGE core values. Over the last 25 years, our values of INTEGRITY, MAKERS, ACTION, GROWTH & EXPERIENCE have guided every interaction, project, and relationship we have. We have pride and passion in our business's unique craftsmanship and our duty to respect the thousands of brands we are entrusted to represent.
Position Summary:
Indigo Signs is looking for an accounting professional with proven interpersonal skills to lead an accounting team in support of all financial operations across our entire business spanning two states and seven offices. This is a hands-on Accounting Manager role that will partner with the CFO to design and execute our processes, systems, and policies to ensure compliance of financial information, effective accounting practices, and relevant financial/business decision information to our Executive team, operations, Board of Directors and lenders.
The full-time position reports to the CFO and has management responsibilities for direct reports. The role and direct reports are based in our Fargo, North Dakota office. Travel to our other locations in North Dakota and Minnesota may be required on a limited basis.
Who is a great fit for this role?
For an existing Accounting Manager who possesses strong accounting knowledge, enjoys day-to-day interaction with business operations, desires to evolve a company from current to future state in its accounting practices, and would like to expand their financial analysis skills. This is a great role for individuals who would like to work toward a Controller or CFO position, as you will gain both accounting and business skills.
Responsibilities:
COMPLIANCE
- Responsible for employing generally accepted accounting principles and working with our external accounting partners to ensure we proactively implement changes to accounting practices. Meet with CFO and Audit team on quarterly basis.
- Oversee Accounts Payable function and ensure business spend is accurately recorded and timely.
- Manage year-end activities, working closely with external accounting firm to ensure audit information (corporate and 401K), taxes, and K-1’s are delivered as needed.
- Provide our lenders all covenant compliance information.
- Oversee our State and Use Tax by monitoring nexus, working with our audit firm to maintain current practices for our invoicing/purchasing, as well as reporting and submitting monthly/quarterly payments.
BUSINESS SUPPORT
- Partner with CFO on cash flow and treasury management, including preparing and maintaining weekly cash projections.
- Work with business team to ensure our accounting accurately reflects our daily operations and we have proper classification of activities between cost of goods and support.
- Partner with our Business Systems owners to develop business reporting that meets the direction of the business and meets the needs of each department owner. Practicing the philosophy of ‘less data, more information’.
- Owning both invoicing and the initial phase of receivable collection by providing timely notice of any past due amounts and working with our Sales team to ensure all information is accurate.
- Working with our Operations team
- Provide them an effective and efficient PO and invoice process to allow them to obtain materials and services necessary to meet client expectations and timelines.
- Understand our inventory requirements so we can properly capture and categorize all inventory information so that we can understand spend and manage usage.
- Partner with our HR team on payroll to provide all necessary supporting information for timely submission of payroll and commissions. Also, ensure our people costs (salary, PTO, benefits, etc.) are accurately reflected within our financials.
- Work with CFO
- Creating of budget and monthly forecasting.
- Development of standard reporting that is readily available to business team (e.g., aged invoices, sales report, AP, product mix reporting and custom reports; inventory, division P&L reporting; monthly goal progress reporting; sales commission reporting). This will be a joint effort with our Executive, Operations and Systems team.
MONTHLY CLOSE
- Establish and maintain a consistent and timely monthly close process with reconciliations of balance sheet accounts on monthly basis. Ensure general ledger data is classified accurately and transactions recorded.
- Work with Business Systems owners to ensure all information either entered or uploaded into financial systems are accurate.
- Financial statement preparation and review with executive team.
- Manage and maintain all corporate governance regarding capitalization tables, structure, and board support. Responsible for providing updates and investor communications.
- Work with operations on inventory to properly reflect Cost of Goods.
- Maintain Fixed Asset records.
ACCOUNTING TEAM PRACTICES
- Develop standards for all areas of the Accounting department for daily, weekly, etc. requirements.
- Manage team’s productivity with a weekly Accounting calendar
- Ensure business continuation with documentation of key processes and development of backup within the team for critical processes.
- Support process improvements within Accounting/Finance ongoing.
- Work hand-in-hand with our Business Systems owners to ensure we are using our ERP to its fullest capabilities for both compliance and efficiency.
- Ensure all company transactions are conducted in an ethical and business-like manner.
- Maintain open communication, effective and cooperative relationships.
DESIRED PERSONAL SKILLS, BUSINESS EXPERIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:
- Desired personal skills – areas that create energy for you
- Leading a team and helping to develop their skills
- Traveling to learn business and coach team
- Working with multiple people to understand a business operation or issue
- Solving complex accounting issues – embracing the complexity to see solutions
- Experimenting with new ideas to become more efficient and effective
- Presenting financial-related information to non-finance audiences
- Continual learning of the business and accounting profession
- Business Experience
- 5-10 years of progressively increasing scope in accounting roles, including holding role as Accounting Manager for a minimum of 2 years.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
- Experience in manufacturing and/or contract manufacturing is desired, but not required
- Prior experience with a firm of $10 million or greater
- Experience/Interest in managing remote team members
- Strong understanding of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Technology skills
- Advanced Excel capabilities and ability to work with large sets of data
- Experience in working with business ERP (e.g. NetSuite, SAP, Dynamics)
- Added “bonus” skills: Experience KeyedIn (either Manufacturing or Signs version), EPICOR, JobBoss, Striven
Compensation is negotiable based on years of experience. Indigo Signs is an Equal Opportunity Employer!