Who We Are:
Boochcraft is an innovative leader in the Hard Kombucha category, focused on creating high-quality products while continuing to evolve and scale our operations
We would love to share with you our vision for the brand, our values, and how you can help us make an impact.
Our Values:
- Be Bold - competitive spirit, inspired to create connection, and unafraid to fail.
- Give a Sh*t - passionate, change-maker, and conscientious of the impact we make.
- Own It - responsible, self-motivated, and scrappy.
- Do Better - curious, evolutionary, and never stop learning.
- Win Together - selfless and willing to go the extra mile to help the team.
What You'll Do:
We are seeking a detail-oriented, analytical, and process-driven Senior Accountant, Financial & Sales Operations to support our growing beverage business. This role combines GAAP accounting, financial analysis, forecasting, regulatory compliance, and sales operations oversight.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on accounting professional who can independently manage month-end and year-end close activities, maintain accurate financial records, develop financial models, and translate financial and operational data into actionable insights.
This position also provides day-to-day oversight and guidance to the Sales & Accounting Operations Coordinator, ensuring accurate distributor reporting, accounts receivable management, and sales analytics. Success requires strong accounting fundamentals, advanced Excel skills, and a proactive approach to process improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Accounting & Month-End Close:
- Manage monthly and year-end close activities, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting in accordance with GAAP.
- Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules, including accruals, fixed assets, depreciation, prepaid expenses, and debt obligations.
- Reconcile revenue, distributor transactions, sales deductions, cash clearing accounts, and other balance sheet accounts to the general ledger.
- Investigate and resolve accounting discrepancies, maintaining accurate records and supporting documentation.
- Prepare monthly financial statements and management reporting packages.
- Coordinate year-end closing activities and support external audits and annual tax preparation.
- Oversee reconciliation of retail, e-commerce, merchandise, and taproom sales, ensuring accurate revenue recognition and deposit recording.
- Collaborate with Operations and Production to support inventory accounting, cost reporting, and operational financial analysis.
Financial Planning, Analysis & Forecasting:
- Maintain and enhance cash flow forecasts and financial models supporting revenue, operating expenses, production costs, and working capital.
- Prepare and distribute monthly budget-to-actual reports, highlighting significant variances, trends, and areas requiring management attention.
- Partner with department leaders to analyze financial performance, investigate variances, and improve forecasting accuracy.
- Develop and maintain financial and operational KPIs to support management decision-making.
- Assist with annual budgeting, periodic forecasts, and ad hoc financial analysis.
Sales Operations & Accounts Receivable Oversight:
- Provide day-to-day oversight, guidance, and work product review for the Sales & Accounting Operations Coordinator.
- Oversee accounts receivable activities, including invoicing, payment application, collections, credit memos, distributor deductions, and reconciliations.
- Review distributor sales, depletion reports, AR aging, billbacks, and sales deductions for accuracy and consistency with financial records.
- Maintain and validate sales forecasting models, distributor performance reporting, and related financial analyses.
- Partner with Sales leadership to improve reporting, collections, and visibility into distributor performance.
- Maintain appropriate internal controls and documentation for sales-related transactions.
- Support price posting, label registration, and related regulatory processes as needed.
Tax, Regulatory Compliance & Audit Support:
- Prepare and file applicable state sales and use tax returns and federal and state excise tax reports.
- Support TTB reporting, including reconciliation of production, inventory, and taxable sales activity.
- Prepare annual California Redemption Value (CRV) and business property tax filings, as applicable.
- Prepare and submit monthly bank covenant compliance packages, including supporting financial schedules.
- Maintain compliance calendars and documentation to ensure timely regulatory filings.
- Support external audits, tax preparation, and regulatory inquiries.
Process Improvement & Team Collaboration:
- Identify and implement improvements to accounting, financial reporting, and sales operations processes to increase efficiency, accuracy, and automation.
- Develop and optimize Excel-based models, reporting templates, and data integrations.
- Support improvements to accounting systems, internal controls, and reporting workflows.
- Establish priorities and reporting standards for the Sales & Accounting Operations Coordinator, providing training and professional development support.
- Collaborate across Finance, Sales, Operations, and Production to improve financial visibility and operational decision-making.
- Support additional finance and accounting initiatives as assigned by the CFO.
What You'll Need:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, with a strong foundation in financial accounting.
- 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including month-end close, general ledger accounting, and balance sheet reconciliations.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and financial reporting principles.
- Experience preparing financial analyses, budgets, forecasts, and variance reports.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, complex formulas, lookups, and financial modeling.
- Experience with accounting or ERP systems and reconciling data across multiple platforms.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate across departments.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in beverage manufacturing, consumer packaged goods (CPG), or a related industry.
- Familiarity with excise tax reporting, TTB compliance, or multistate sales and use tax filings.
- Experience with distributor reporting, sales deductions, inventory accounting, or manufacturing cost analysis.
- Experience with QuickBooks, Ekos, or similar accounting and operational systems.
- Proficiency with Power Query, Power BI, or other reporting and data analysis tools.
- Experience providing guidance or oversight to accounting or financial operations staff.
- CPA or CPA candidate preferred but not required.
Work Environment & Physical Requirements:
This position primarily operates in a professional office environment with regular collaboration across departments. Responsibilities include prolonged periods of computer work, occasional standing and walking, and occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
This position pays an annual base salary of $90k to $100k.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and respectful workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.