Accounting Manager

#MaesaMagic

The next gen beauty company, Maesa is transforming the industry by incubating and growing meaningful, innovative brands and making prestige beauty accessible. Maesa believes beauty ignites inspiration, creativity, imagination, and connection, sparking new ideas and possibilities, and meeting unmet consumer needs. Through best-in-class design, formulation, brand creation and marketing capabilities, Maesa delivers new, better and different products with an unsurpassed speed to market. Maesa works with a variety of retailers to create and launch brands across beauty and wellness categories. The current portfolio includes Kristin Ess, Hairitage by Mindy McKnight, Fine'ry, Being Frenshe, MIX:BAR and Niches & Nooks among other brands. For more information, visit www.maesa.com. 

About the Role

We are seeking a detail-oriented Accounting Manager to join our Finance team. Reporting to the Assistant Controller, this role will be responsible for supporting the month-end close process, maintaining accurate financial records, managing key accounting operations, and assisting with audit and compliance activities. This position will play an important role in ensuring the integrity of financial reporting while helping to improve and scale accounting processes as the business continues to grow.

The ideal candidate is hands-on, highly organized, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.

This role is based in New York City and follows a hybrid work schedule, with a minimum of several days per week in the office.

Responsibilities 

• Ensure an accurate and timely month end close by providing management and support to the accounting close process.
• Serve as a hands-on team member responsible for performing and reviewing accounting transactions including journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analysis related to daily cash transactions, bank reconciliations, fixed assets, inventory and other key accounting responsibilities.
• Assist in providing support for annual audit activities with external auditors.
• Oversee and manage T&E policy compliance, process employee expense reports in SAP Concur and provide relevant accruals as needed.
• Oversee HR, payroll, benefit and other related expense journal entries and reports each payroll cycle.
• Manage day to day relationship with vendors including communication as well as ensuring timely processing of vendor invoices in Medius and NetSuite.
• Identify opportunities to drive efficiencies across core accounting and reporting processes and responsibilities.
• Partner with Finance, Marketing, Operations, and other cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and accuracy of related financial results and reporting.
• Other ad hoc requests and projects as needs arise. 

Qualifications 

• 5 to 7 years’ accounting and reporting experience
• ERP experience; NetSuite experience a plus
• SAP Concur experience a plus
• Medius experience a plus
• Beauty industry experience a plus
• Manufacturing exposure a plus

What We Offer 

$100,000/yr - $110,000/yr; exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. This position is eligible for participation in a discretionary bonus plan based on individual and company performance. 

Maesa offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees. Employees can choose to enroll in health insurance coverage, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, and retirement savings plans. Through generous paid time off, a hybrid office setup, and paid leave options, Maesa encourages wellness and balance among employees.

Our Commitment to You

At Maesa, we live by our values of collaboration, curiosity, game-changing, creativity, and discipline.  We believe our people and partners are a creative force that catalyzes the possibilities in beauty to break through traditional limits and discover the “new” without restriction. We prioritize creating and fostering a welcoming environment for employees, partners, ideas, approaches, and endeavors — all through a spirit of warmth and inclusivity. As set forth in Maesa’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Our EVP

Maesa is the next-gen beauty company, where bold ideas become beautiful brands. We ignite the dreamer and doer in each of us. We move at the speed of culture to push boundaries and redefine possibilities unleashing #maesamagic everyday. By fostering a start-up spirit, we equip everyone to lead with accountability & execute with excellence. We champion each voice and empower every journey, creating an environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking, calculated risk taking, and cutting-edge innovation. Growth is personal, intentional, and limitless.