Purpose of the Role

Our Finance team is at the forefront shaping strategic decisions across the company. As a member of the team, the Senior Staff Accountant contributes to company’s success by ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial statements. A successful Senior Accountant combines excellent analytical skills, thorough knowledge of accounting principles, strong communication skills and attention to detail.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform month end accounting including journal entry preparation and reconciliation of assigned balance sheet accounts.
• Analyze expense line item variances and provide explanations to be included in the monthly Executive Summary analysis provided to the Officer team.
• Assist in the preparation of the quarterly and annual financial statement and footnotes submitted to Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.
• Assist external audit and tax teams by preparing schedules, explaining supporting material and procedures and any other data as needed.
• Identify and implement process improvements in daily/monthly responsibilities.
• Cross departmental collaboration and communication on various projects and tasks.

Competences for Success

• Knowledge of accounting practices and procedures with ability to research and recommend appropriate treatments.
• Must be proactive with the ability to multi-task and manage competing deadlines.
• Excellent communication and listening skills in order to articulate ideas and thoughts clearly through various means, including written and oral communications with all levels of the organization.

Measures of Success

• Meeting deadlines, positive attitude, monthly close metrics, successful work cross-functionally to the mutual benefit of all groups involved

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting
• 2-3 years of general finance or accounting experience, public accounting preferred
• Intermediate to advanced skill level with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word required
• CPA, or currently sitting for CPA a plus
• Oracle and Hyperion experience a plus

More about Pampered Chef

We are a global brand delivering curated, high-quality kitchen solutions through a network of over 40,000 independent consultants and a rapidly growing online business. We began as a Chicago-based start-up in 1980 and today are part of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies. Now we’re leveraging our company’s strong foundation to reinvent our company and our brand for future growth. We’re searching for top talent to help reshape our company to deliver on our purpose of enriching lives one meal and one memory at a time.