Accounting Manager
Atlas Toyota Material Handling
Bedford Park, IL
Finance / Banking / Insurance, Accounting / Auditing
Description
Atlas Companies is currently hiring an Accounting Manager to join our team based in Bedford Park, Illinois. This role will be responsible for overseeing the final stages of the sales order lifecycle, ensuring accurate invoicing, financial reconciliation, and timely reporting.
Atlas Companies consists of four different companies: Atlas Bobcat, Atlas Toyota Material Handling, Atlas Badger ToyotaLift, and Atlas First Access. We are an authorized Toyota Forklift Dealer and Bobcat Dealer while also providing a variety of material handling and warehouse solutions for companies of all sizes.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership
- Manage and develop associates within the Illinois sales coordination team.
- Assign workloads to ensure timely and efficient completion of tasks.
- Drive consistency and adherence to internal processes and controls.
- Oversee the timely and accurate billing of all sales orders and resolve discrepancies proactively.
- Ensure vendor invoices are properly matched with purchase receipts to prevent invoicing delays.
- Collaborate with vendors to streamline communication and accelerate invoice processing.
- Conduct and manage gross profit audits, including direct responsibility for the Illinois branch and oversight for the Minnesota and Wisconsin branches.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for all leasing-related matters.
- Review and approve lease documentation to ensure completeness prior to equipment delivery.
- Monitor and actively manage outstanding leases through the funding process.
- Communicate with other departments to resolve leasing issues efficiently.
- Review, edit, and finalize commission reports, ensuring adherence to accounting deadlines.
- Manage the tracking and compilation of the quarterly and annual commission plans.
- Ensure timely reporting of delivered equipment impacting our floor plan.
- Support accurate financial reporting through detailed analysis and reconciliation.
- Partner with systems team to enhance WIP tracking and improve cost-to-billing alignment.
- Monitor and track balances related to racking inventory.
- Reconcile customer deposits and review equipment orders for the floor cleaning, used equipment, and systems teams.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, controls, and reporting accuracy.
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- 5+ years of accounting experience, preferably in a managerial or supervisory role.
- Strong understanding of order-to-cash processes, invoicing, and financial reconciliation.
- Experience with leasing processes and commission structures preferred.
- Proficiency in ERP systems and advanced Excel skills.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Great Company Culture: Great people, a high focus on values, professional development opportunities as well as company events (food trucks, BBQ’s, holiday parties, retirement celebrations and sporting events, to name a few!).
- Focus on Personal/Family Balance: Monday-Friday schedule.
- Rest and Relaxation: Generous PTO (paid time off) AND 8 paid holidays.
- Health Benefits: Medical with HSA and FSA options, Dental and Vision Plans.
- Life and Disability Benefits: COMPANY PAID Life Insurance, Short- and Long-Term Disability Plans.
- Prepare for the Future: 401(k) with company match.
Where a specific pay range is noted, it is a good faith estimate at the time of posting. The actual compensation offered will be based on experience, skills, qualifications, market considerations, and geographic location.
Salary Description
$75,000-$90,000 per year based on experience
About the company
Company website•Commercial and Industrial Equipment Rental
Atlas Toyota Material Handling, part of the Atlas Companies, is an authorized Toyota Forklift Dealer committed to providing quality service, premium equipment and innovative solutions for companies of all sizes.
We supply Illinois (Chicagoland), Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Northwest Indiana with the largest inventory of new forklifts & lift trucks in the nation. We offer new, used and rental equipment to handle a variety of material handling needs, alongside a wide assortment of forklift attachments, pallet jacks, parts and floor cleaning equipment. With our customized warehouse systems solutions and forklift operator training by our Federal OSHA certified instructors, our extensive knowledge in warehouse support integrates productivity and safety seamlessly.
With 24/7 maintenance by over 115 certified technicians with an average of 17 years’ experience, our service network guarantees a fast and timely response with a 4-hour max wait time.
Our vast sales selection of more then 800+ new and used forklifts and lift trucks is continuously updated and features all models and brands such as Toyota, Motrec, Advance, Genie, Terex, Bendi, Drexel, Big Joe, Columbia, Manitex Liftking, and Skyjack. Committed to serving all industries, we carry every type of forklift & lift truck available; electric, industrial, warehouse, reach trucks, pneumatic and more.
Proudly carrying the name Atlas, our other companies include: Atlas First Access and Atlas Toyota Lift of Minnesota (Retail), Atlas International (Wholesale) and Atlas Bobcat.
With over 70 years in the material handling industry, Atlas proudly operates through our established core values: We PROMOTE INTEGRITY at every level of our business and have a PASSION FOR WINNING by delivering nothing less than exceptional results. Atlas strives for CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT all while creating an environment where we EMBRACE COMMUNITY by upholding a pursuit to VALUE PEOPLE and treat everyone with respect, courtesy, and dignity.