About Wellness Pet Company
The Wellness Pet Company crafts and produces premium natural pet food, treats, dental chews, and supplements. We believe that natural, premium nutrition focused on proven health outcomes is the foundation of creating mutual wellbeing for pets and their families. As a community of people, Wellies are positively obsessed with how to win for pets and their parents. We believe in the difference we make every single day, and we know that when we work collaboratively, Wellies are unstoppable – not only in providing the best nutrition to pets, but in building a better tomorrow for pets, their parents, and the world.

This role is based out of our Burlington office, where we work a required hybrid schedule of in-office Monday through Thursday each week, and remote on Fridays. Candidates must reside within or be willing to relocate to a commutable distance from our Burlington office.

What You’ll Accomplish

We are seeking a highly motivated, hands-on, results-driven Accounting Manager to join our Burlington-based team. Reporting to the Assistant Controller, this individual will be a leader within our accounting team and will have two direct reports. Our Accounting Manager will oversee US-based accounting functions, manage the month-end financial close process, and partner with cross-functional leaders to drive strategic initiatives to enable growth and scalability across the organization.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the day-to-day operations of the US accounting team
• Manage and develop the US accounting team by fostering an environment of goals achievement through feedback and coaching
• Design, enhance, and maintain strong controls and processes within accounting operations
• Have active involvement in business transformation initiatives
• Collaborate with various cross functional business partners on various ad-hoc reporting and support requests
• Partner with external auditors to drive the timely completion of our annual audit

Who We’re Looking For:

Team Wellie is a group of people who are truly obsessed in all the best ways about winning for the consumer and the pets they love. And so, we are seeking an individual who:

• Is consumer-focused with all they do
• Continually challenges themselves to go the extra mile to get the job done, and ensure it’s done the right way as opposed to the easy way
• Holds themselves and others accountable
• Embraces continual development through the sharing of feedback and investment in learning opportunities
• Is a true collaborator, sharing resources, and engages in healthy debate
• Celebrates differences and strives to learn from others who are different from themselves
• Gives back to their community and supports sustainable practices

The Accounting Manager must be a proven leader with the ability to develop and manage a team while collaborating cross-functionally. Additionally, for this role, we are looking for someone who possesses:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• A minimum of 7 years of progressive accounting experience
• 4+ years of experience managing a team
• Proficiency in Fixed Assets, 842 Lease Accounting, Treasury and consolidation of multiple companies with foreign exchange
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of current US GAAP
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• A motivated self-starter who thrives when taking ownership of initiatives with limited oversight
• Consistently meets critical deadlines
• Proven analytical, problem solving, planning and organizational skills
• Experience using an enterprise level ERP system

Why Work for Wellness Pet

We care about the wellbeing of our people, their families, and their pets, so we treat every Wellie to a comprehensive benefits package full of extras to support their health, pets, passions, and professional development. More information about our benefits can be found on our website. The Wellness Pet Company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

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