WHAT YOU’LL DO

As our Director of Accounting, you’ll be the keystone alongside our CFO to ensure the overall financial health of both Seakeeper and Seakeeper Ride segments. You’ll act as a strategic thought partner for our internal stakeholders and leadership including our CEO, CFO, and Chief Manufacturing Officer. You’ll lead a team of Accounting and Finance professionals and leaders and help to drive us forward, increasing efficiency, profitability, and growth. You’ll have the autonomy to pave the way in leading our internal finance operations by:

• Reviewing, auditing, and finalizing monthly, quarterly, and yearly financial statements and developing and enhancing short- and long-term budget and forecasting models

• Ensuring compliance with internal control policies in a SOX environment
• Partnering with our external auditors to ensure compliance and successful audit results
• Analyzing the effect of statutory accounting practices and studies regulations and guidance to ensure the correct application of GAAP
• Interfacing with tax and accounting firms if needed to navigate on resolving a complex issue
• Participating in the ongoing development and establishment of accounting policies and procedures and operational strategies including the review and implementation of process and system changes
• Preparing materials and reports for executive management and key stakeholders including but not limited to annual budgets, EBITDA bridges and other ad-hoc reports as needed

• Improving, influencing, and setting the short- and long-term strategy and overall strategic vision for the company
• Having oversite of all FP&A functions including but not limited to the following:
  • Reviewing and approving key month-end close activities and account reconciliations
  • Overseeing accounts payable and general ledger functions and teams in addition to all of the financial analysis and reporting
  • Researching and sharing analytics, advice, and recommendations with senior leadership
  • Being the internal champion for the structure and process of financial accounting and reporting within our ERP system, NetSuite
  • Reporting on our warranty program and overseeing our bill of materials management
  • Providing reporting for inventory control and treasury management
  • Overseeing the monthly Balance Sheet Review and audit and tax compliance activities
• Providing creative alternatives and recommendations to reduce costs and improve financial performance
• Coordinating Key Performance Indicators that allow management to monitor all areas of the business
• Developing financial models, conducting benchmarking, and analyzing processes
• Preparing the annual budget and ongoing reporting of actuals vs budget
• Driving process improvement and policy development initiatives that impact business function

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

Do you have a positive attitude, an eagerness to learn, and the ability to hustle in a fast-paced environment? Then Seakeeper is the place for you! Here are a few other specifics you’ll need to have to succeed.

MUST-HAVES

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 10+ years of progressive accounting leadership and management experience including:
  • Current experience working in an accounting role as a Manager, Sr. Manager, or Director
  • Current experience and a minimum of 5+ years’ experience managing and coaching a direct team of finance and accounting professionals with a demonstrated ability and track record of developing them for future roles and promotions
  • Demonstrated success in reviewing/managing a monthly close

• Proven knowledge and a track record of successful financial forecasting and diagnosis, as well as corporate finance and information analysis
• Experience working in an accounting or financial leadership role within a fast-paced startup company or a high-growth environment
• Hands-on experience with statistical analysis and statistical packages
• System implementation experience

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, databases, and financial software applications
• Expert knowledge of GAAP
• Outstanding presentation, reporting, and communication skills
• Demonstrate good judgment and be of unquestionable integrity
• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion
• Ferocious attention to detail
• A passion for finance and business that drives you to stay well-informed on current practices and environments
• Maintain a positive, professional, and customer-centric attitude at all times
• Be professional, responsive, resourceful, and flexible
• Superior time management, multitasking, organizational and prioritization skills

NICE-TO-HAVES

• MBA
• CPA
• Experience working in an accounting or financial role within a manufacturing environment
• Experience using NetSuite
  

MORE DETAILS YOU’LL WANT TO KNOW

• This role will be based onsite 50% of the time in Leesport, PA, Ft. Myers, FL, or may include travel to industry events/meetings such as boat shows, etc.
  • The remainder of time may be remote from your home office
• You’ll report to the CFO, based in Maryland
  

YOUR TEAM

Our Director of Accounting is the leader of our Finance & Accounting team reporting to our CFO. You will be a shared resource for both Seakeeper and Seakeeper Ride segments. Our team is small but mighty team and covers a lot of ground, ensuring our leadership teams have the best support possible and are kept well informed to make the best business decisions for Seakeeper. You’ll be able to own your position and make an immediate impact on the future of Seakeeper.

WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT HERE

It’s true that we make extraordinary products, but our favorite part about Seakeeper is our people! We believe in participative leadership. That means you have the freedom to make a difference and contribute to the larger goal, regardless of your position. Great ideas can strike at any moment, and when you have one, you’re empowered to speak up!

We are constantly pushing (or crushing) boundaries. Stagnant or bored are about as opposite from Seakeeper as you can get! We move quick and if there is something that can be improved upon, we jump on it.

WHO WE ARE

71% of our Earth is covered by water and we want everyone to make the most of it. That’s why we are committed to creating products that transform the boating experience with an organization that employees want to work for, customers want to buy from, and vendors want to partner with. Our gyro stabilizers eliminate boat roll and create a land-like experience on the water. We defy gravity and completely change the way people spend time on the water.

We started the company 15 years ago, and now 50% of the boats built annually in our core market are Seakeeper equipped. With our recent introduction of smaller units that are ideal for boats as small as 23 feet, there is a long road of growth ahead!

Ready for a new challenge in a fast-paced environment? Want to help us disrupt an industry? Come on and apply, we are ready for you!

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