Accounting Manager

Company Description: Cold Core Group provides turnkey industrial refrigeration, process piping, mechanical construction, and stainless fabrication solutions for food and dairy processing, cold storage, manufacturing, and other industrial facilities across the United States. The company specializes in industrial ammonia refrigeration systems, offering engineering, design-build, installation, maintenance, and 24/7 emergency service throughout the full lifecycle of a facility. Through its family of companies—Summit Refrigeration, All Temp Refrigeration, Fore-Front Mechanical, and Farley's Frigeration—Cold Core Group supports new construction, facility expansions, system upgrades, and ongoing maintenance. The team focuses on improving system performance, reliability, safety, and operational efficiency while helping customers minimize downtime.

Role Description: The Accounting Manager is responsible for managing full-cycle accounting operations and ensuring the accurate and timely completion of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close activities. This role oversees general ledger accounting, account reconciliations, percentage-of-completion analysis, inventory accounting, tax reporting, and financial statement preparation. The Accounting Manager partners with cross-functional teams to maintain accurate financial records, support compliance requirements, and improve accounting processes in a fast-paced, growing organization.

Qualifications:

• Manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting close process, ensuring timely and accurate

completion in accordance with company policies.

• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to gather, validate, and record information required for closing

entries, including inventory adjustments, payroll, commissions, accruals, and other period-end

transactions.

• Prepare and review monthly journal entries, general ledger reconciliations, accruals, and supporting

schedules.

• Prepare monthly financial statements and supporting reports for management review.

• Perform monthly percentage-of-completion (POC) analysis on open projects and ensure appropriate

accounting treatment for project revenue, costs, and estimated completion.

• Complete monthly bank reconciliations and investigate and resolve discrepancies.

• Coordinate federal, state, and local tax reporting requirements, including sales tax reports, personal

property tax returns, and income tax-related filings, in collaboration with internal or external tax

resources as appropriate.

• Assist with annual insurance renewals across company entities and provide requested documentation

for insurance audits.

• Assist with weekly payroll processing and review, and support daily cash management, including

monitoring cash balances, preparing cash forecasts, and coordinating vendor payments.

• Support external and internal audit activities, including banking, union benefit fund contribution, and

other compliance-related audits.

• Maintain accurate accounting records and supporting documentation in accordance with company

policies and applicable accounting standards.

• Perform intercompany reconciliations and support consolidated financial reporting across all company

entities.

• Identify and implement improvements to accounting processes, controls, and reporting to increase

accuracy and efficiency.

• Other duties as assigned.

Position Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field.

• Minimum of 5 years of accounting or finance experience.

• Demonstrated experience managing full-cycle accounting operations and month-end closing.

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, and reconciliation workbooks) and proficiency

with accounting software. 

Preferred Qualifications:(Nice to have, but doesn’t limit the ability to be hired):

• Construction accounting and percentage-of-completion (POC) experience

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA)

• Public accounting experience

• Knowledge of Microsoft Power BI

Working Conditions: Regularly working in an office environment. Occasional travel (up to 10%) between company locations.