Senior Accountant

Job Summary

Martin is seeking a detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our team of professionals in our East Lansing office. As Sr. Accountant, you will be responsible for managing accounts payable and receivable, handling collections, and serving as a backup for payroll processing. The ideal candidate is highly organized, accurate, and comfortable balancing daily transaction work with direct communication to vendors, customers, and employees.

Key Responsibilities

• Process vendor invoices, purchase orders, and payments accurately and timely.
• Manage vendor inquiries and resolve invoice discrepancies.
• Generate customer invoices and statements; follow up on overdue accounts and perform collections.
• Reconcile AP and AR sub-ledgers to the general ledger.
• Assist with month-end close and related journal entries.
• Serve as backup for payroll processing, including timekeeping, deductions, and compliance.
• Maintain documentation and support audit requirements.
• Collaborate with sales, procurement, HR, and finance teams to resolve issues.
• Support reporting and contribute to process improvement initiatives.

Ideal Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required.
• Minimum 3–5 years’ experience as an Accountant.
• Experience with collections and customer/vendor communication.
• Familiarity with payroll processes (backup/assisting capacity acceptable).
• Proficient with accounting and payroll software (e.g., QuickBooks, Microsoft Dynamics, ADP, or similar).
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills; able to work independently and as part of a team.
• High integrity when handling confidential financial and payroll data.

Preferred Attributes

• Strong attention to details.
• Ability to operate with a high degree of flexibility, adaptable to changing demands.
• Strong business sense and can decipher priorities and make sound judgement calls as appropriate for the role.
• Commitment to excellence – perform duties at the highest level possible o consistent basis.
• Self-starter and can work well independently as well as with the team.
• Through technology and automation, ability to contribute to continued process improvement.
• Excellent communicator – able to interact with people at all levels in a confident and professional manner.
• Demonstrate ability and temperament to work with highly confidential and sensitive information.
• Ability to quickly learn company utilized systems, programs and software.
• Timely, punctual, positive team player.

Physical Requirements

Those activities associated with general office work including but not limited to sitting, walking, standing, talking, or hearing, for long periods of time.  Using hands to write, key, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. Other activities include reaching, stooping, kneeling, crawling, crouching, pushing, pulling, and lifting

NOTE:  Job descriptions are intended to present an illustration of the range of duties, the scope of responsibility and the required level of knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to perform the primary functions of the job. Job descriptions are not intended to reflect all duties performed by those assigned to this classification as other duties may be assigned.