Finance Manager
Apply NowCompany: Air Fayre CA, Inc.
Location: Gardena, CA 90247
Description:
About the Role:
We are seeking a hands-on Finance Manager with strong senior accounting experience to support our CFO and ARNAP (Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable) teams. This on-site role offers visibility and direct support to our finance operations, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and efficiency in financial processes. This person will play a critical role in audits, taxes, and technical accounting tasks and enhancing support across the department.
Qualifications:
Key Responsibilities:
We are seeking a hands-on Finance Manager with strong senior accounting experience to support our CFO and ARNAP (Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable) teams. This on-site role offers visibility and direct support to our finance operations, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and efficiency in financial processes. This person will play a critical role in audits, taxes, and technical accounting tasks and enhancing support across the department.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or Business Administration (required)
- CPA or equivalent accounting qualification (preferred)
- Minimum 3 years of experience in general ledger accounting and preparation of management accounts (required)
- Strong understanding of financial reporting, compliance, and audit processes (required)
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, financial formulas, etc.) (required)
- Must be highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive problem solver
- Must have ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and deadline-driven environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage across all levels of the organization is required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee and support the month-end and year-end close processes, including preparation and review of:
- Account reconciliations
- Journal entries
- Accrual schedules
- Variance analysis and commentary for internal financial statements
- Prepare and present timely, detailed reports on balance sheet and income statement fluctuations; analyze against forecast, prior year, and budget
- Manage tax-related processes including:
- Airport sales tax
- Tax returns
- Compliance and filing deadlines
- Support internal and external audits, ensuring documentation and processes are audit-ready
- Identify errors, discrepancies, or inefficiencies and recommend process improvements
- Maintain, enforce, and update internal accounting policies and controls
- Provide technical accounting oversight and serve as a knowledge resource for AR/AP teams
- Conduct forecasting, reconciliation, and variance analysis with minimal oversight
- Deliver timely and accurate financial data to the CFO and executive team
- Collaborate closely with operations and leadership to support decision-making
- Ad hoc financial reporting and analysis as assigned