Novolex

Sr. Analyst, Accounting Systems

Job Locations US-IL-Lake Forest
ID
2025-28850
Category
Accounting/Finance
Position Type
Full Time
Pay Type
Salaried

Overview

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

 

 

Responsibilities

Job Overview:

We are looking for a skilled accountant with experience in several of our key accounting systems - OneStream, Blackline, SAP, and CoStar and become a key member of our accounting systems administration team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the overall administration and maintenance of our financial systems, will manage metadata updates, enhancements, and system maintenance, as well as support the overall administration of the applications. This will include administering currently implemented solutions and support implementations in the future.  Additionally, this position will work cross-functionally with various teams to help execute monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements, and will play a key role in helping enhance multiple systems.

 

Job Responsibilities:

  • Ensure timely and accurate financial reporting by monitoring system performance and identifying and resolving issues
  • Develop and maintain system documentation, including user guides, policies, and procedures
  • Train and support users on system functionality and best practices
  • Create, maintain, and update financial reports and forms
  • Manage the request and approval process over metadata intake and execute changes in financial systems
  • Manage consolidations, integrations. Perform validations from source systems and ensure source data flows downstream as required
  • Manage implementation of continuous applications within the applications including defining business needs, and assisting with solution roadmap
  • Develop and maintain various reporting solutions as needed by Accounting and Finance teams
  • Develop and maintain documentation over key processes and controls
  • Summarize and distribute notes on application release reports and monthly metadata changes
  • Troubleshoot end-user issues
  • Thorough understanding of finance processes and business processes
  • Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

  • BA/BS Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Management Information Systems
  • Minimum of 3-5 years of experience as an accountant, or as accounting system administrator
  • Experience in SAP, OneStream, Blackline and CoStar preferred
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
  • Knowledge of accounting principles and practices
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, with advanced Excel skills
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically
  • Ability to analyze financial data and financial statements
  • Strong project management skills, including the ability to manage details through to completion and ensure project deadlines are met
  • Experience with multiple sources of data integrations
  • Strong working knowledge of US GAAP
  • Team and solution focused personality and approach to work
  • Ability to multitask and proactively research and provide solutions to questions or problems as they arise

Qualifications

What You'll Get From Us

Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other well-being resources focused on mental, physical and financial health. Specific benefits and well-being programs may vary depending on where you work.

 

Community Engagement

At Novolex, giving back to the local communities that support us is important. Our Focused Giving Program prioritizes support for organizations whose missions promote sustainability initiatives or address food and hunger needs. We also encourage facility level support of activities in the communities where our employees live and work.

 

Training and Development

We offer constant opportunities for advancement. From skills development to advanced education programs, training and development programs and courses are available through MyLearning. Programs include company and industry training curricula, support for formal education through the Tuition Reimbursement Program, and a Learning Management System that supports and enhances employee skills at all levels of the organization.

 

Novolex is committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all employment practices, including but not limited to selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, handicap or disability, genetics, citizenship status, service member or veteran status, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local law. Any individual who, because of his or her disability, needs an accommodation in connection with an aspect of the Company's application process should contact myHRservices@novolex.com.

 

 

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