Accountant / Sr Accountant
Accounting
Ashton, IL
The Short Scoop: Join a stable, family-rooted food manufacturer where your work shapes real financial outcomes for a growing $100M+ company. This dynamic, fast-paced role offers the perfect blend of independent work and cross-functional collaboration, letting you make an immediate impact through close, budgeting, and inventory analysis while building relationships across departments. It’s a genuine opportunity to showcase your accounting expertise and grow into a leadership path.
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Location: Ashton, IL – On-Site only.
Why You Should Apply
- Collaborative team environment that allows independence and to your strengths
- Empowered to take on new challenges – grow your skills
- Annual bonus based on performance
- Full benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance
- Profit sharing, 401(k), on-site fitness center, and on-site nurse
- 11 paid holidays plus generous PTO
- Real path to grow into Assistant Controller
Compensation range: $85,000 – $105,000 annually + Bonus
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead month-end and year-end close activities
- Maintain GL accounts for accurate financial statements
- Prepare journal entries and account reconciliations
- Analyze inventory activity and variances
- Support multi-state tax compliance
- Assist with cash management and weekly projections
- Help develop and monitor the annual budget
About You
- Be able to do the job as described.
- Accounting Degree preferred
- Be able to do the job as described.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Strong accuracy, attention to detail, and organizational skills
- Manufacturing or food industry experience preferred
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, INDEX/HLOOKUP), build your own spreadsheets
- Thrives in a close-knit, in-person team setting
We appreciate every person who takes the time to apply. While we may not be able to respond personally to every applicant, we will contact those whose experience most closely aligns with the requirements of the role.
How To Apply: We’d love to see your resume, but we don’t need it to have a conversation.
Send an email to Rich Bradley at rich@teambradley.com and tell me why you’re interested. Or, if you do have a resume ready, apply on this site.
Sponsorship is not an option for this role.
This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer
This is NOT A REMOTE ROLE!
TBI Id No: 26-15030, Accountant / Sr Accountant