Accounting Manager (TEMP)

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Accounting Manager to support our Finance & Accounting team during a 8-month leave of absence coverage. This hybrid role offers exposure to both daily transactional operations and month-end close processes. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, demonstrates strong ownership, and brings a continuous improvement mindset to every task.

This role is hybrid for candidates in the Orange County, CA region.

Key Responsibilities

Daily & Weekly Tasks

• Process Accounts Payable invoices, ensuring proper coding and approval in accordance with company policy.

• Maintain and update the weekly cash forecast and prepare payment files.

• Perform weekly bank reconciliations using Match Bank Data to ensure system alignment with actual balances

• Allocate inbound and outbound freight charges (DHL, FedEx, UPS, 3PL) to the appropriate accounts, sales channels, and cost centers

• Manage item receipt absorption to ensure accurate landed cost accounting.

• Review and validate expense coding, ensure proper receipts are attached in Airbase, and provide final approval after employee manager sign-off before syncing transactions to NetSuite.

Month-End Close Responsibilities

• Prepare and post monthly accruals, including AP, COGS, sales tax, and other recurring entries.

• Manage and reconcile prepaid schedules, including insurance, leases, and other recurring expenses.

• Post and maintain fixed asset activity, ensuring proper classification, useful life, and new hire updates.

• Reconcile bank accounts, credit card statements, and expense platform data (Airbase, AMEX, Chase).

• Reclass COGS and product-related expenses as needed for accuracy in margin reporting.

• Conduct reconciliations across key GL accounts, including but not limited to revenue, discounts, gift cards, testers, and returns.

• Prepare inventory subledger to GL tie-outs

• Update foreign exchange rates and execute monthly revaluation in ERP system.

• Complete sales tax reconciliations across multiple jurisdictions (CA, UK, US)

• Assist in preparing the monthly balance sheet review file and associated support schedule

Additional Monthly & Ad Hoc Activities

• Review and approve vendor and customer onboarding requests in BizData, ensuring alignment with internal compliance standards

• Lead onboarding walkthroughs for new team members on Airbase and TravelPerk tools.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

• 2–4 years of relevant accounting experience, preferably in a CPG environment

• Strong understanding of GAAP and month-end close processes

• Proficiency in Excel; experience with NetSuite, Airbase, or similar ERP/AP tools 

• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail

• Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment

What we would like to offer...

• Hourly rate: $50-75/hour

• Hybrid Work Model - Find your flow, working from home or from our Laguna Beach headquarters

• ILIA Products - Quarterly stipend to replenish your favorite products and try new ones

*This is the anticipated salary range for this position. The actual salary offered will carefully consider a few factors including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

About ILIA

ILIA makes clean skin-centric beauty. We see skincare and makeup as one and believe that skin should look like skin. With transparency as our guide and color as our vehicle, we challenge the conventions of clean beauty to create something radically new, through safe, groundbreaking formulas that protect + revive the skin. Headquartered in Laguna Beach, California, ILIA brings together a strong group of innovative thinkers, rule-breakers and creative problem solvers. We pave the way forward as the leading clean makeup brand in what is being called the Clean Beauty Revolution. Fast paced growth provides constant learning, collaborative teamwork, and the desire to be the best at what you do. We celebrate taking risks and doing what hasn’t been done before.

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