Job Description
Job Description
Amanda Warren with Robert Half is seeking a Senior Accountant to join our team in Yuba City, California, and support core accounting operations with a strong focus on accuracy, control, and timely financial reporting. This position plays an important role in month-end activities, grower-related accounting, and process improvement efforts across the controllership function. The ideal candidate brings solid reconciliation experience, sound judgment, and the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams while maintaining high standards for documentation and compliance.
Responsibilities:
• Lead key month-end accounting activities by preparing journal entries, completing account reconciliations, and researching variances to support accurate financial results.
• Maintain organized financial records and supporting documentation to satisfy audit requests and uphold internal control standards.
• Administer grower and member financial transactions, including payments, advances, notes, and equity activity, in accordance with established program guidelines.
• Oversee inventory-related accounting processes and review usage trends that affect grower or member payment activity.
• Prepare and verify annual member statements, resolve discrepancies, and assist with follow-up questions or correction requests.
• Manage master data for member accounts, while coordinating system updates, testing efforts, and related change requests with internal technology partners.
• Monitor regulatory developments that may affect grower accounting procedures and help update documentation and controls as needed.
• Review aging schedules, reconciliations, and exception items to ensure assigned work is completed accurately and within required deadlines.
• Partner with accounting leadership and IT to strengthen automation, improve data quality, and reduce reliance on manual or paper-based processes.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
• At least 3 years of accounting experience, including hands-on work with month-end close activities and reconciliations.
• Strong working knowledge of general ledger accounting, journal entry preparation, and account analysis.
• Experience performing account and bank reconciliations with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage competing deadlines while maintaining complete and well-organized control documentation.
• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate with Finance, IT, and customer-facing internal teams.
• Familiarity with grower or member accounting processes, payment cycles, or statement preparation is preferred, with the capacity to learn specialized processes quickly.