Manager Corporate Accounting

About Sun Country Airlines

We're not your average airline. We're agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.

With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline, and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlines provides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at a great and growing company, as a Manager Corporate Accounting you'll enjoy these benefits and more:

• Comprehensive benefit package including dental and vision
• PPO and high-deductible health plans
• Health savings accounts (HSA and FSA)
• Dependent Care
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Manager Corporate Accounting Overview:

Sun Country Airlines is seeking a Manager, Corporate Accounting to oversee the daily corporate accounting activities related to inventory, debt, leases and aircraft maintenance. This individual must possess a strong foundational knowledge of US GAAP and apply that knowledge to ensure the Company's financial activities are accurately accounted for.

This position requires an individual that is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, is a team player, can consistently meet deadlines, understands how accounting systems function, can partner with departments outside of accounting, and can lead others to achieve success. This individual also understands the importance of adhering to accounting policies while also maintaining an orientation towards process improvement.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ensure accounting procedures and controls for inventory, debt, leases, aircraft maintenance and other general accounting areas are properly managed.
• Ensure inventory (TRAX) subledger reconciles to the general ledger
• Serve as a liaison between the corporate accounting team and operational departments to ensure inventory transactions are accurately recorded in accordance with Company policy and implement necessary process changes
• Supervise the daily activities of one senior accountant, providing coaching and mentoring to support their career development
• Prepare month-end journal entries for assigned areas and review journal entries prepared by accounting staff
• Prepare account reconciliations for assigned areas and review reconciliations prepared by accounting staff, resolving discrepancies in a timely manner
• Review actual results against the forecast for assigned areas and identify the underlying reasons for any material variances
• Review forecasts for assigned areas
• Perform assigned SOX controls and ensure adequate documentation is maintained
• Assist with internal and external audits
• Serve as the Business Administrator for the Blackline system, ensuring that reconciliations and tasks are appropriately assigned and completed timely
• Prepare deliverables for the month-end budget vs. actual review meetings
• Manage the ongoing maintenance of account segments, attributes, and overall structure
• Participate in the implementation of new accounting and finance systems, as necessary
• Drive efforts to improve processes within the accounting and finance departments
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3+ years of progressive accounting work experience
• 1+ year(s) of management/supervisor experience with increasing leadership responsibilities
• Inventory and/or cost accounting experience
• Superior critical thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines while ensuring that direct reports complete assigned tasks in a satisfactory and timely manner
• Highly detail-oriented
• Proven ability to work both independently as well as collaboratively with various levels of employees across multiple departments, including those outside of Accounting and Finance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word, including the ability to manipulate spreadsheets
• Ability to work overtime as required, primarily during accounting close process and annual audit

Preferred Qualifications

• Public accounting experience
• CPA license
• Familiarity with Great Plains and/or other accounting systems
• Familiarity with Blackline or similar applications
• Travel or aviation-related experience

Compensation:

Pay range: $90,000 - $105,000 USD per annually. This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.

Classification:

Full-Time, Non-Exempt

Work Location:

Minneapolis, MN (hybrid)

Supervisory Responsibility:

The Manager, Corporate Accounting is responsible for overseeing the daily tasks of the Senior Accountant, Inventory.

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands or fingers, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Other Duties:

The above statements are intended to provide a summary of key responsibilities and the anticipated work environment of an accountant. They are not intended to be an all-inclusive listing of job duties. Position expectations may change as the needs, or the requirements of the organization evolve.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Sun Country Airlines respects and values every employee's contribution to our business. We believe that an important part of our strength comes from our people and their array of perspectives.

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