Our company culture is built upon YKK’s philosophy called the CYCLE OF GOODNESS™.  We believe that providing value and being fair to our customers and our employees is what makes us a successful company in return.  Guided by our core values and fundamental behaviors, we strive to foster a caring company, committed employees and challenging work that benefits our employees, customers, and communities. We offer competitive compensation packages, training and advancement opportunities. YKK AP America provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package designed to provide the security they need to enjoy life at home and at work.  By providing a high level of benefit coverage at a reasonable cost to the employee, we hope to foster a long and productive employment relationship.

Position Summary

ThIs position will be directly responsible for overseeing accounting responsibilities and using various analytical skills to monitor and analyze financial and accounting data. Also, this position is responsible for account reconciliations, and the oversight of various sub systems such as fixed assets, lease accounting, cash position, etc. The position requires a great emphasis on details present findings to management. The position is actively involved in the month-end close, and year-end audit.  To be successful, this position needs to be detailed oriented and have an excellent understanding of GAAP and internal control concepts.

Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities

• Preparing and analyzing financial, accounting, and production data for both the monthly reporting and the preparation of journal entries.
• Preparing and filing of property tax returns.
• Ensuring compliance with GAAP accounting standards, Company’s internal control procedures and practices. 
• Reviewing and analyzing account books for efficiency and accuracy.
• Verifying and reconciling the accuracy of various balance sheet accounts. Required to understand account definition, reason for transactions, and identify the correct source document. Reconciling items need to be identified, aged, and properly adjusted.
• Responsible for the month-end and year-end closing processes.
• Coordinating the preparation of financial statements, financial reports, special analyses, and information reports.
• Analyzing accounts for accruals and depreciation of assets; managing sales tax issues related to invoices.
• Assisting in annual Financial and JSox audits.  Analyzing and recommending controls, identifying risk areas and/or improperly handled transactions and advising and recommending the strengthening of internal control.

Qualifications and Skill Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university in Finance/Accounting plus 3 - 5 years of related experience and/or training
• 3 - 5 years of manufacturing experience, preferred
• Cost accounting experience
• CPA Certification a plus
• In-depth working knowledge of methods, procedures and terminology is required. 
• Proficient in Microsoft office, with emphasis on Data Access and Excel, this includes pivot tables and v-lookup
• Be vigilant about safety
• Quality - conscious, oriented to excellence

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status.

Employment with YKK AP America Inc. is conditioned upon successfully completing a negative drug test for the presence of illegal drugs.