Accounting Manager

Our Mission: From our roots in the Pacific Northwest, we will grow a global lifestyle brand for empowered people who share our genuine spirit to find new ways forward.

Our Culture: We believe in iconic products, engineered for versatility, designed to be our consumer’s favorite. We believe in sustainability and efficiency in our products and in our processes. We believe technology enables global engagement with consumers, and powers a trusted experience for our customers.

Our Location:

Our Seattle Fulfillment Center (SFC) is located in the heart of the Ikea Commercial District where we have 200,000 square feet of state of the art production and inventory. We maximize our facility with two shifts of production, five days per week. We enjoy a culturally diverse workforce and promote team orientated solutions to delight our customers.

Job Vision: The Accounting Manager will manage daily and monthly recurring tasks common within our Accounting organization, including leading cross-functional projects to develop accounting policies and to improve the Cutter & Buck’s processes and internal controls. Serves as point person for monthly closing and financial statement preparation, and coordination of the annual financial audit.

Essential Functions:

Responsible for reporting actual company operating results in a timely manner, for both internal and external users, and ensuring the integrity of data used in various management reporting throughout the organization, including maintaining the general ledger and other books and records of the Company.

Preview, verify, and approve transactions and journal entries and oversee the preparation of the Company’s monthly financial statements.

Develop and implement process changes and reports that may result from changes in business practices, contracts, new accounting principles, and other business initiatives.

Oversee the data collection and preparation of tax returns.

Analyze data and processes to enhance operational efficiencies.

Ad hoc reporting to find relationships between disparate data, to enable meaningful business analyses, and to summarize large quantities of data to allow for easier identification of trends or errors.

Develop solutions and present recommendations to management.

Lead and mentor Accountants and Senior Accountants. Continually develop the talent within the Accounting department by challenging and motivating the Accounting Staff for the success of the department.

These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all knowledge or skills required of this position.

Advanced knowledge of GAAP and its application, in order to apply accounting theory to practice.
Strong understanding of accounting process flows and internal controls
Proven ability to direct the work of others within the department and on project teams toward successful conclusion of objectives.
Successful track record of mentoring staff accountants, utilizing resources effectively, planning for organizational change, and developing staff professionally.
Project management skills within a team, and cross-departmental.

Effective written and verbal communications.
Adept at extracting and manipulating data for ad hoc analysis.

Ability to distill large quantities of detail into meaningful and accurate summaries for presentation to management.
Self starter and self motivator, able to work independently.
Proactive, seeks to improve, takes initiative.
Takes full responsibility for assigned work and communicates significant issues promptly.
Ability to independently develop detail actionable work plans based on general guidance of which will be completed accurately and in a timely manner.
Detail oriented and organized.
Flexible, adaptable to change.
Takes an organized, thoughtful approach to areas of responsibility and projects.
Works well with others, is respectful, and demonstrates teamwork.
Leadership, initiative and drive are required to be successful in this position.
The ability to analyze data and processes and create operational efficiencies is critical.

Mindset and orientation:

• Adoption of Cutter & Buck’s Mission and Values.
• Maintaining a customer-first position.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, multitask, and demonstrate flexibility in a dynamic, fast paced environment.
• Embrace challenges, learn from criticism, and be willing to see effort as the path to mastery.

Education and Experience:

4-Year Accounting degree required. CPA preferred

Minimum of 5 years’ experience in an accounting position in a mid or large sized company, or equivalent experiences gained from public accounting

Working knowledge of ERP Systems

Experience documenting accounting processes and policies

Financial Audits

Tax Filings for Income, Sales, and Property Taxes

Previous management experience

Very Strong Excel Skills

Our Workplace: Employees shall work in a non-hostile work environment. That is, the employee is expected not to engage in any activity that unreasonably interferes with performance of any other employee, such as sexual harassment, unlawful discrimination or any other behavior that unduly demeans or intimidates another employee.

Our Employees: Full Time Employees enjoy employer subsidized medical, dental and vision eligibility, Paid Sick leave and Annual Vacation leave. Employees are also eligible for participation in our 401k plan with company match and ten (10) paid holidays in a calendar year.

Cutter & Buck is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and socially responsible company. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment post-offer substance abuse testing, complete post-offer background check are required for all positions. A clear driving record may be required for certain positions.

Cutter & Buck, Inc. is a socially responsible company.