Senior Accountant

Company Overview

Kemper Equipment supplies and manufactures aggregate processing and conveyor equipment and parts. The family-owned company values innovation, knowledge, safety, and commitment, and works to exceed expectations through valued partnerships.

Position Summary

The Senior Accountant supports centralized, multi-entity accounting for a growing

organization with capital equipment, custom manufacturing, service, distribution, and

rentals.

This position will be primarily responsible for the capital side of the business, including

assigned month-end close activities, journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations,

intercompany activity, recurring schedules, operational reporting, job-costing review, CAM

calculations, and accounting-system documentation. The role also provides payroll and

time-data support, including entering approved hours, validating variances, documenting

exceptions, and responding to employee questions; payroll processing and final approval

remain with the designated payroll owner.

The Senior Accountant will also provide backup support for distribution sales accounting

and close activities when the distribution sales counterpart is unavailable or when

completing deadlines require additional coverage. This is an individual contributor role with

no initial direct reports and an opportunity to grow into broader accounting

responsibilities.

The successful candidate will be comfortable working across multiple entities,

investigating discrepancies, following issues through resolution, and improving processes

as ERP and payroll software workflows mature.

Responsibilities

• Capital Sales Accounting and Month-End Close
• Support equipment, manufacturing, and service sectors through recording
• expenses, invoicing customers, and providing operational reporting.
• Manage jobs to ensure proper documentation, treatment and closure.
• Prepare assigned balance sheet reconciliations and resolve reconciling items
• promptly.
• Prepare assigned month-end journal entries including prepaid expenses, capital related
• activity and service activity among others.
• Perform routine intercompany reconciliations and document outstanding items
• through resolution.
• Review job-costing reports and CAM calculations for completeness,
• reasonableness, and unusual activity; investigate discrepancies as needed.
• Support financial statement preparation and close-package schedules.
• Identify unusual balances, trends, and variances and escalate issues appropriately.
• Provide backup support for distribution accounting and close activities when
• coverage is needed.

Payroll and Time-Data Support

• Enter approved service and engineering hours and validate shop-hour variances
• between systems. Assist in the transition to better hour tracking in ERP system.
• Support payroll input processing and document time-data exceptions.
• Respond to employee questions related to hours, time entry, and system issues.
• Escalate wage, bonus, policy, payroll-processing, and final-approval matters to the
• appropriate payroll owner, HR, or Accounting Manager.
• Maintain payroll checklists, documentation, and backup procedures.
• Support payroll-related reconciliations and transaction review without owning
• payroll processing or final payroll approval.

Payables, Cash, Reporting, and Customer Support

• Prepare accounts payable payment files and supporting documentation. This role
• does not approve or release payments.
• Prepare sales and cash reports for assigned entities.
• Post daily customer check deposits and apply payments to open invoices.
• Prepare holding-company bank reconciliations.
• Process service invoices and support CAM calculations for rental operations.
• Prepare customer setup documentation, credit applications, and system records.
• Support collections and customer-account research as it pertains to operational
• sectors.

ERP Implementation and Process Improvement

• Support ERP implementation activities, testing, issue follow-up, and user
• documentation.
• Help rebuild SOPs for the ERP, payroll, month-end close, reconciliations, and
• recurring reports.
• Identify duplicate work, manual workarounds, and control gaps.
• Support system testing, troubleshooting, process documentation, and workflow
• improvements.
• Participate in cross-training to create reliable department backup coverage.
• Use ERP and HR-system data accurately and consistently.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a closely related field is preferred;
• equivalent progressive accounting experience will also be considered.
• Three to five years of progressive accounting experience, including month-end
• close and account reconciliations.
• Strong understanding of debits, credits, reconciliations, journal entries, and
• financial close processes.
• Experience working with multiple entities and recurring accounting deadlines.
• Ability to investigate issues, document conclusions, and follow through to
• resolution.
• Strong Excel and data-analysis skills.
• Ability to work on-site and collaborate directly with the accounting and operational
• teams.

Preferred Experience

• Multi-entity accounting experience.
• Capital equipment, manufacturing, distribution, inventory, job-costing, rental, or
• service-accounting experience.
• Payroll input or payroll-processing support experience.
• Experience with Acumatica, Rippling, or similar ERP and HR/payroll systems.
• Experience with inventory, margin, job-costing, CAM, or operational accounting
• reports.
• Experience supporting an ERP implementation, acquisition integration, or
• accounting-process redesign.

Pay: $65,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• AD&D insurance
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person