Accountant In Bank Jobs in Ames, IA (NOW HIRING)

Reporting to the Site Controller, the Accountant is responsible for maintaining the integrity of our financial records while overseeing liquidity, vendor approvals, and bank relations in a fast-paced mining environment. This role is ideal for a professional who thrives in a collaborative, data-driven culture and understands the unique fiscal requirements of mining operations.

• General Ledger & Month-End: Accurate and timely month-end closing procedures with minimal post-close adjustments, including journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations for site operations.
• Operational Accounting: Strong working relationships with the warehouse and operations teams to monitor inventory costs, track material flows, and analyze production variances against budget.
• 1099 Compliance and SAP Master Data Management: Maintain accurate 1099 vendor master data within SAP, ensuring tax identification information is complete and compliant; oversee annual 1099 form preparation, validation, and timely filing with the IRS in accordance with regulatory requirements.
• Accounts Payable Controls Review: Review and validate Accounts Payable transactions parked in SAP, ensuring accuracy of financial records and confirming that all support documentation is complete, accurate, and fully aligned with established internal control and approval procedures.
• Audit & Compliance: Consistent compliance with internal controls, and SOX requirements; coordinate clearly, efficiently, and accurately with external auditors to ensure complete, well-documented, and timely support for fiscal reporting and audit requests.
• Data Visualization: Utilize Vena and comparable analytic tools to develop and maintain custom dashboards and visual trend analyses, providing leadership with real-time insights into operational costs.

• Cash Positioning: Monitor daily cash positions for site bank accounts and forecast short-term liquidity requirements to support operational continuity.
• Vendor & Supply Chain Coordination: Work closely with the Supply Chain Supervisor to manage high-value warehouse issue tickets (>$5k) and ensure payment timeliness.
• Bank Relations: Act as the primary site liaison for banking partners; manage bank account administration and ensure adherence to internal treasury controls.
• Bank Transaction Management and Reconciliation: Maintain and process bank transaction within SAP, ensuring complete and accurate recording of cash activity; prepare and complete weekly bank reconciliations during normal business operations and monthly as a part of the month-end close, investigating and resolving all outstanding or reconciling items older than one month to maintain accurate, well-controlled, and auditable banking records in accordance with internal control requirements
• Risk Management: Identify financial and operational risks early, providing proactive analysis to leadership to prevent bottlenecks and ensure smooth interdepartmental workflows.

• Bachelor degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
• 3 years of professional experience in accounting, preferably in the mining industry or in a similar industry, required.
• Demonstrated ability to proficiently use Excel-pivot tables, to build complex models, and dynamic visual dashboards for strategic storytelling, VLOOKUPs, advanced formulas, Power Point, Microsoft. required.
• Demonstrated proficiency with SAP and Vena, preferred.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment with people of varying skills and backgrounds,required.
• Excellent planning, analytical and problem solving, decision making, negotiation, organizational and interpersonal skills required.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate written and verbal financial information clearly, concisely and accurately across technical and non-technical audiences. required.
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time, required.
• Ability to complete assigned tasks safely and efficiently with minimal supervision, required.
• Demonstrated ability to perform essential functions of the position,required,

This position will be based at the Florida Canyon mine site near Winnemucca, Nevada.

Florida Canyon Mining, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, values diversity in its workforce, and encourages applications from qualified candidates. Wherever possible, accommodations are made for qualified applicants with self-declared disabilities.