Accounting Associate

About this role

About Flamingo

Flamingo is an award-winning body, hair, and care brand delivering high-performance, thoughtfully designed products at an accessible price. Since launching in 2018, we’ve become the #3 player in women’s shave in the U.S. and expanded our assortment to offer products for every routine: razors, wax steps for face and body, shave gel, and body lotion. Our products and campaigns have been covered by Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle, and InStyle, and we’ve won major beauty accolades from Allure and Essence. With a mission to empower women, Flamingo is committed to partnering with nonprofit partners working to help women and girls build healthy relationships with their bodies and has helped connect over 200K people to quality mental health and wellbeing resources.

Flamingo is part of Mammoth Brands, the modern CPG company behind category-leading brands Harry’s, Flamingo, Lume, Mando, and Coterie. Driven by a mission to “Create Things People Like More,” the company is creating a new model—and home—for brands, founders, and talent looking to solve unmet needs, improve peoples’ lives and ultimately change the status quo. Even as we grow, we take extra care to maintain the small, scrappy, entrepreneurial culture that helped to get us where we are today: a company that people like more, that better serves its customers, employees, and community. Mammoth Brands is committed to making a positive impact and donated over $20 million through our network of nonprofit partners to date.

We build brands that move fast and think big — and we hire people who are curious about AI, willing to experiment with it in their day-to-day work, and excited to accelerate what's possible. We prioritize giving our team the tools, training, and space to build real fluency, so you grow alongside the technology and help shape how we use it.

About the team

This role will be part of a global team, comprising the Finance & Accounting, and Strategy teams spanning North America, the UK and Germany. The global Accounting team works cross-functionally within the broader organization and consists of both commercial and corporate functions. Our accounting function is made up of a strong team of stellar communicators, and detail-oriented individuals committed to achieving the company’s goals.

About the role

This position is designed to support the global accounting, shared services (AP/AR), tax and finance teams through project based work including, but not limited to, parental leave backfills and supporting month-end closes with these teams.

We are looking for a candidate that is detail oriented, agile and is comfortable rolling up their sleeves and providing hands-on support to the rest of our accounting team. The ideal candidate understands foundational accounting, has experience in accounts payable, has experience with SAP systems, and is able to jump in and assist with existing processes. You will also help execute accounting process improvements, strengthen controls in key accounting procedures and report and present on financial data in an impactful way.

What you will accomplish

• Assist with invoicing, freight and inventory processing, and accounts receivable/payable functions

• Assist with accounts payable system implementations

• Assist in managing daily operational accounting for Mass Retail and DTC channels

• Assist in the monthly close, including performing reconciliations, creating adjusting journal entries, analyzing margin

• Assist in month-over-month and year-over-year analysis of month-end balances and results in a thoughtful and meaningful manner

• Build strong relationships within the accounting and finance teams, as well as work cross-functionally in order to support the Company’s business needs

• Assist in completing special projects as needed, such as AI and automation projects, SOX readiness, etc.

This should describe you

• 3+ years of professional experience in an accounting or audit function

• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and SOX

• Active CPA license, or pursuing, is a plus

• CPG, retail, manufacturing or e-commerce experience is a plus

• Experience in accounts payable is a plus

• Experience with SAP/S4 is a plus

• Advanced Excel skills

• Accountable and proactive, willing to roll up your sleeves as needed and are 100% reliable, you do what you say you will do, and proactively closes the loop. You enjoy an entrepreneurial atmosphere that requires you to work alongside the team and to be comfortable in a lean environment.

• Strong analytical skills and ability to dive deep into solving problems and data inconsistency

• A track record of successful team collaboration

• You are a self-starter, curious, and flexible to changing priorities and demands

• Love all things numbers with a high attention to detail

• Always looking to improve yourself and the processes around you

• You thrive on direct, honest, and supportive communication

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Build relationships, participate in engagement activities, lean into broader DEI forums, and champion DEI in all that you do.

• Sense of humor -- we take our work seriously and ourselves un-seriously.

Here's who you'll work with

• Reporting to the Corporate Controller

• You’ll work closely with the global accounting, shared services (AP/AR), tax and finance teams in the US, UK and Germany

Benefits and perks

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• 401k match

• Equity in Mammoth Brands

• Flexible time off and working hours

• L&D stipend

• 4 weeks sabbatical after 5 years, 6 weeks after 10 years, and 8 weeks after 15 years

• 20 fully paid weeks off for parents who give birth, or 16 fully paid weeks off for all other paths to parenthood

• Fun IRL and virtual events including happy hours, team building events, and parties on our rooftop

• Free products from our family of brands

The Mammoth Brands' working model is in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Our beautiful 70,000 square

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