Senior Accountant – Operations Accounting & Reporting

Your Mission

• We are building an operations accounting and reporting function to support manufacturing at scale and complex contractual arrangements (structured brand deals, royalties, and cost-sharing). In this role, you will own operations accounting end-to-end. You'll help design the accounting workflows, reporting structures, and dimensions needed to support our growing finance organization.

What you'll do

• This is a hands-on role at the intersection of operations and accounting. You'll own the complete cycle of operations accounting - tracking production and associated costs, managing inventory, analyzing variances, and reporting on contractual arrangements. You'll play a critical role in the ERP implementation, particularly in designing accounting workflows that support both internal and external reporting.

Your profile

• Required
• • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field.
  • Minimum five years of accounting experience, including cost accounting, inventory
  • accounting, or operations accounting.
  • Strong knowledge of production accounting, standard costing, variance analysis, and inventory accounting.
  • Advanced Excel skills (PowerQuery, pivot tables, XLOOKUP, index-match, financial modeling).
  • Comfort working with large datasets, SQL queries, and analytical tools (e.g., Power BI).
  • Excellent attention to detail and strong reconciliation skills.
  • Clear communication skills and fluent written and spoken English.
  • Ability to take ownership, work independently, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment.
• Preferred
• • CPA or equivalent accounting credential.
  • Experience with revenue recognition (ASC 606) for complex or contingent arrangements.
  • Background in manufacturing, footwear, consumer goods, or capital-intensive industries.
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Business Central, NetSuite, or similar ERP.
  • Experience designing accounting structures, cost allocations, and/or chart-of-accounts
  • frameworks.
  • Familiarity with data visualization and reporting tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker).
  • Experience supporting ERP implementations or system migrations.

Your work style

• Take ownership and drive topics to completion with minimal supervision.
• Understand the numbers deeply and explain them clearly to non-finance colleagues.
• Speak up when something doesn't add up and investigate root causes.
• Balance speed with strong controls and attention to detail.
• Communicate proactively about progress, risks, and blockers.
• Collaborate with Operations and Finance teams.
• Build scalable processes in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Why Zellerfeld?

• Build Core Capabilities: Help design and build the operations accounting function from the ground up as we scale.
• Shape Critical Systems: Lead the design of accounting dimensions and reporting structures in our ERP implementation.
• Global Impact: Support the world's first scalable 3D-printing platform for customizable footwear.
• High Ownership: Work in a flat environment where your analysis directly influences business decisions.
• Diverse Team: Collaborate with engineers, designers, and operators who value clear thinking and practical execution.

About Us

Zellerfeld is revolutionizing the footwear industry with the world's first 3D-printing technology platform for fully customizable shoes. Our goal is simple: printed shoes on every foot. We are a team of engineers, designers, operators, and business builders challenging traditional manufacturing and creating a more flexible and less wasteful future for footwear.