Lead Accountant

Forest Products Distributors is hiring a hands-on lead accountant role to report directly to the CFO. The role covers day-to-day accounting, financial analysis, sales commission and national retail account work, reconciliations, and management reporting across multiple entities.

This is a detail-heavy role for someone who likes working in the data, fixing discrepancies, and improving processes—not a pure oversight job.

Duties

• Partner with the CFO on accounting, analysis, reporting, and special projects.
• Perform AR, AP, and general ledger work, including journal entries, reconciliations, and accruals.
• Support month-end and year-end close.
• Analyze, validate, reconcile, and enter data for sales commissions and national retail accounts.
• Build and maintain excel reports, schedules, and analytical tools for accounting and management.
• Work with large datasets from multiple systems to find discrepancies, trends, and process improvements.
• Handle QuickBooks for subsidiary and affiliated entities: entries, reconciliations, journal entries, and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting or finance experience preferred.
• Solid experience with GL, reconciliations, journal entries, AP, and AR.
• QuickBooks experience strongly preferred.
• Multi-entity or subsidiary experience is a plus.
• CPA or similar designation preferred, not required.
• Distribution, wholesale, manufacturing, or building materials experience is helpful but not required.

Advanced Excel is required. You should be comfortable with large datasets and use:

• PivotTables and PivotCharts
• XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH
• SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, and related formulas
• Data validation, reconciliation, filtering, and sorting
• Conditional formatting and recurring report builds
• Importing and organizing data from multiple sources

What works here

You are analytical, accurate, organized, and comfortable in a fast-paced environment. You can move between transactional detail and higher-level analysis, manage several deadlines, and work independently while staying close to the CFO. You notice broken processes and fix them, and you treat financial information as confidential.

Pay: From $80,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Profit sharing
• Retirement plan
• Travel reimbursement

Work Location: In person