Senior Accountant

Meet the Smart Safety Company

At Safe Fleet , our name says it all. We make fleet vehicles – and everyone in and around them – safer. Our fleet safety platform brings together best-in-class products, ground-breaking technology, and a 100-year history of fleet know-how and innovation to solve the world’s biggest fleet safety challenges.

Our core value is safety . Without safety first, efficiency and productivity are not possible. This principle guides our products, our culture, and our relationship with the community. Our vision is clear: reduce preventable deaths and injuries in and around fleet vehicles, with a goal of ZERO accidents .

We are redefining what safety means for fleets of every type – from school buses to waste collection trucks, firefighting to utility vehicles, police cruisers to delivery vans.

Whether you work in our Charlotte plant building life-saving stop arms for school buses, design advanced camera vision products in our Vancouver office, forge valves and high-quality nozzles to fight fires, or develop new ways to protect fleet operators at our Corporate HQ in Kansas City, you’ll contribute to our mission to keep everyone safe.

As part of Safe Fleet, Road Ready extends this mission into the world of connected assets. Road Ready is a leading trailer telematics solution that helps fleets unlock the power of IoT. Our innovative technology provides real-time visibility into trailer health, location, and utilization, reducing downtime, improving logistics efficiency, and driving smarter operations.

Together, Safe Fleet and Road Ready form a fast-growing manufacturing, service, and technology company with over 1,700 employees across more than 15 locations in Canada and the U.S. We’re looking for motivated self-starters with innovative thinking to join our team and help us achieve our growth and performance goals.

Current Opportunity: Senior Accountant

We are seeking an experienced Senior Accountant to lead and elevate our accounting operations. The Senior Accountant's responsibilities include preparing financial reports, reconciling accounts, maintaining the general ledger, assisting with audit preparations, and performing other accounting duties as assigned. Candidates should have a solid working knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and strong financial analysis skills.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a hands-on accounting environment, is detail-oriented, and can balance transactional responsibilities with management reporting. The Senior Accountant will play a key role in financial stewardship, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the monthly close process: prepare and post journal entries, calculate accruals, reconcile accounts, ensure accuracy of financial statements.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations.
• Produce monthly management reporting packs (including revenue flash, EBITDA flash, variance analysis, and consolidated reporting).
• Assist with the preparation of audit support.
• Prepare and deliver weekly reporting, including a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast.
• Generate customer invoices in accordance with contracts.
• Perform collections activities and follow up with customers to resolve overdue accounts.
• Process vendor invoices (entry, coding, approvals, payment processing).
• Maintain AP aging, resolve discrepancies, and manage vendor relationships.
• Ensure timely and accurate disbursements.
• Support ERP/financial systems enhancements and upgrades.
• Administer the expense card program (Concur/Amex), ensuring compliance with company policy.
• Support sales tax compliance in collaboration with the Director of Tax.
• Handle ad hoc accounting issues, special projects, and occasional audit/tax requests.
• Implement process improvements to streamline accounting operations.
• Support the customer support team (as needed) with order entry and customer issues.
• Other duties as assigned.

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA preferred but not required).
• 3+ years of accounting experience
• Proficiency with ERP systems (Expandable, JDE or similar is a plus) and Excel.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and comfortable managing both transactional tasks and higher-level reporting.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Occasional Travel (10-15%)

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Our core values of integrity, innovation, teamwork, customer focus, and safety guide our efforts to provide a workplace where all employees can thrive and reach their full potential.

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