Chief Accounting Officer

location_onSeattle, United Statespayments$250,000 – $300,000/yrschedule5 hours ago

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schoolEducation:Bachelor’s degree

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Silver Bay Seafoods is a privately held food processing

leader with approximately $1billion in annual revenue and operations across

multiple locations. As the Company continues to grow and prepares for its next

phase, it seeks a strategic, accomplished, and hands-on Chief Accounting

Officer (CAO) to strengthen its accounting organization and support long-term

enterprise readiness.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), the CAO will

hold executive responsibility for the integrity of the Company’s accounting and

financial reporting functions. This leader will oversee corporate and

operational accounting, strengthen inventory and cost accounting controls

across all facilities, and build the technical accounting, financial reporting,

and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) infrastructure required for a large, best in class company-accounting

organization.

This role is designed to strengthen enterprise-wide

accounting discipline, prepare the Company for public-company reporting

requirements, and create scalable processes that support continued growth.

Success will require an executive who can set strategy, establish clear

accountability, and remain closely engaged in operational execution.

Core Responsibilities

The CAO will provide executive leadership across the

following areas:

Financial Reporting Integrity: Ensure the
completeness, accuracy, and integrity of the Company’s consolidated financial
statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
Close and Consolidation: Lead monthly, quarterly, and annual close and
consolidation processes, ensuring rigor, consistency, accountability, and
timely execution across corporate and field locations.
SEC Reporting: Establish and oversee company reporting processes,
including processes that are able to prepare Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K, related
financial disclosures.
Audit and Governance: Serve as the principal accounting liaison to
external auditors, lead quarterly reviews and annual audits, and advise the CFO
on significant accounting policies, judgments, and control matters.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with FP&A and executive
management to ensure that operational decisions and management reporting are
supported by standardized, reliable financial data.
Technical Subject Matter Authority: Act as the Company’s primary
authority on complex U.S. GAAP interpretation, technical accounting research,
and formal accounting position memoranda.
Transaction Execution: Provide accounting leadership for complex
business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A),
divestitures, credit facility/financing arrangements, equity compensation, and
corporate restructurings.
Governance and Regulatory Standards: Monitor emerging SEC and FASB
developments, lead implementation of new accounting standards, and establish
disclosure controls that would support CEO and CFO certification requirements
under Sections 302 and 906.
Plant Costing Governance: Establish and maintain consistent inventory
accounting and costing methodologies across all decentralized manufacturing,
processing, and distribution facilities.
Valuation and Controls: Oversee the accounting for raw materials,
work-in-process (WIP), and finished goods, including standard costing models,
overhead allocations, inventory reserves, obsolescence, and
lower-of-cost-or-net-realizable-value (LCNRV) assessments, to ensure accurate
and compliant inventory valuation.
Field Analytics and Yields: Direct control processes over physical
inventory counts, cycle-counting programs, manufacturing variances, production
yields, waste, and spoilage across all operating plants.
Operational Partnership: Bridge corporate accounting standards with
plant-level operations to elevate underlying operational data quality without
compromising business agility.
SOX Compliance Architecture: Design, implement, and maintain an internal
control framework compliant with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Deficiency Remediation: Partner with internal audit, external audit, and
operational leaders to proactively identify, evaluate, and remediate control
deficiencies.
Process Automation: Lead initiatives to automate key financial controls,
reducing spreadsheet reliance and manual entries across corporate and
facility-level accounting workflows.
Talent Development: Structure, mentor, and retain a high-performing
accounting team across financial reporting, technical accounting, plant/cost
accounting, and compliance functions.
Culture & Accountability: Foster a high-performance culture centered
on integrity, technical precision, continuous improvement, and business
partnership.
ERP & Infrastructure Modernization: Assess and optimize the
Company’s ERP, consolidation, and reporting systems to accelerate close
timelines and enhance enterprise data governance.

Competencies

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following

functional and interpersonal competencies:

Functional

U.S. GAAP & SEC Mastery: Deep technical command
of U.S. GAAP, SEC filing requirements (Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K), and public
financial statement disclosures.
SOX & COSO Frameworks: Advanced knowledge of
internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR), COSO frameworks, and SOX 404
readiness and maintenance.
Cost Accounting Expertise: Proficiency in process
costing, standard costing models, inventory valuation, variance analysis, and
multi-facility operational cost controls.
Financial Systems Literacy: Hands-on leadership
experience with enterprise ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft BC, or
NetSuite; close-management software such as BlackLine or FloQast; and business
intelligence and consolidation platforms like workday.
Transaction Accounting: Direct knowledge of purchase
accounting, M&A integration, complex debt/equity instruments, and capital
structure accounting.

Interpersonal

Executive Communication: Exceptional written, verbal,
and presentation skills; ability to convey complex technical accounting issues
clearly to executive peers, Board members, auditors, and non-financial business
leaders.
Strategic and Hands-On Leadership: Ability to move
seamlessly between enterprise-level strategic planning and detailed operational
analysis when addressing plant-level or technical accounting matters.
Change Management & Influence: Proven track record
of introducing structure, standardization, and process discipline into growing,
dynamic business environments.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong
relationship-building skills to partner effectively across operations, supply
chain, IT, legal, tax, and HR.
Ethical Integrity & Skepticism: Uncompromising
personal integrity, professional skepticism, and sound business judgment
appropriate for a senior corporate officer.

Education and

Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related
discipline required; Master of Accounting or MBA preferred.
15+ years of
progressively responsible accounting and finance leadership, with significant
executive team management in complex corporate environments.
Preferred experience
within a U.S. public company accounting environment or key leadership
experience guiding a private enterprise through an IPO readiness roadmap.
Strong operational
familiarity with food processing, food manufacturing, consumer packaged goods
(CPG), agriculture, or similar multi-site, inventory-intensive processing
industries.
Big Four or national
public accounting audit background strongly preferred.
Active Certified
Public Accountant (CPA) license strongly preferred.
Demonstrated success
managing financial close, cost accounting, and internal control functions
across decentralized operating facilities.

Physical Demands

This role regularly requires sitting, communicating, and

using a computer and other office equipment. The employee may occasionally be

required to stand, walk, reach, bend, or lift and move items weighing up to 25

pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals

to perform the essential functions of the position.

Work Environment and Schedule

This position is based in the

Company’s Seattle, Washington corporate office. A hybrid arrangement may be

considered for the right candidate, with a minimum of three days per week in

the office. The role requires regular collaboration with corporate and operational

teams across multiple locations and may require periodic travel to operating

facilities and attendance at meetings outside standard business hours based on

business needs.

Mental Activities

The employee is frequently required to set an

example by consistently modeling high standards of honesty and integrity.

Presentation and sharing of information should be handled in a direct,

appropriate, and helpful manner.

Maintains

a reputation for honesty, confidentiality, reliability, and fairness;

acknowledges mistakes; and does not misrepresent personal qualifications or

actions for personal gain. Performs work with energy and initiative, values

thoughtful planning, and takes timely, decisive action when opportunities

arise.

Salary Disclosure

The typical base pay range for

this role is $250,000–$300,000 per year. Individual base pay will vary based on

factors including primary work location, the scope and complexity of the role,

job requirements, and relevant experience and skills.

Silver Bay

Benefits and Perks

Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members may enroll in medical, dental, and
vision coverage. Employees are also eligible for basic life insurance,
long-term disability coverage, and voluntary life insurance benefits for
themselves and their families.
Employee Assistance Program: Available for
employees and their families.
Retirement Plan: Employees are eligible for the Silver Bay Seafoods safe
harbor retirement 401(k) plan.
Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid
Holidays
(PTO) plan benefits which start at 3 weeks a year, go up based on years of
service, and receive 8 paid holidays each year.
Other Compensation: Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary
bonus.