Careers
Mickelberry Gardens is a Portland-based dietary supplement company. We manufacture a line of products based around honey, beeswax, bee pollen, propolis, and medicinal herbs. Environmental sustainability, sourcing ingredients from local producers, and being a great place to work are core company values. We pride ourselves in quality and expect excellence from our staff. We currently have a staff of 12, along with 2 working owners. We operate in a laid-back and friendly environment, and we work hard to meet our goals.
Current Open Positions -
Administrative Support and Bookkeeping
Hours: 30-40 Hours Per Week, at our facility in Northeast Portland
Rate of Pay: $25-$35 per hour, DOE
Work location: 12450 NE Marx Portland, Oregon 97230
Flexible working days during the weekday, Monday-Friday between the hours of 8am-5pm.
This is an in-person job. The workspace is spacious, and filled with light and plants!
We’re looking for someone with strong administrative and financial skills to join our team. Excellent communication skills, customer service experience, and Excel savvy are essential for this position. We’re also looking for someone with Accounting, Quickbooks, and inventory management experience.
As a growing small business, the day-to-day workflow in this position is varied. We hope to find a candidate that can help to support other office team members with customer service and invoice processing, take on daily bookkeeping entries, and manage accounts receivable and accounts payable. We would also like this new role to assist with longer term projects on the horizon, including upgrading our inventory system, helping to improve our internal cost accounting, and assisting with monthly financial statements.
This role will work closely with the owner and other office staff, as well as across departments with the shipping and production team. Communication, Teamwork, and collaboration across departments is important for our organization's success.
We’re hoping to hire someone ASAP!
Job Description and Duties:
Accounting and Bookkeeping: Assisting owner with Accounts Payable and Receivable. Entering checks, bills, and receipts into accounting software.
Payroll Support: Totaling staff hours and gathering other info needed each pay period. Helping to onboard new staff by printing and organizing all documents required.
Provide Excellent Customer Service: Respond to customer inquiries via email and telephone, with friendly and helpful rapport. Assist in-person customers with their local pick-up orders.
Generate invoices, packing slips, and other shipping documents to provide to Shipping and Warehouse staff, using Quickbooks software and Excel.
Inventory Management: Assist with the implementation of Advanced Inventory through Quickbooks Enterprise platform. Assist with weekly and monthly inventory management.
Purchasing: Assist with purchasing of supplies.
Additional as-needed projects: Assist owner and team with various projects and goals that come up – these may involve research, building spreadsheets, tracking information, developing company documents, preparing for staff meetings, or improving processes.
Benefits Offered:
**We offer paid sick time and vacation time. Sick time begins accruing at the start of work, and vacation time begins accruing after 6 months of employment.
**We offer a health insurance reimbursement for employees who work 30+ hours per week - you maintain your own individual health plan, and we'll contribute $275 per month towards that cost, giving you the flexibility to choose the plan that is best for you.
**We pay through a 30 minute lunch break, and provide snacks, tea, and coffee to enjoy while you're at work.
**$40 per month (retail value) in Mickelberry Gardens products provided to use and share with family and friends.
**$5.00 daily reimbursement available for commuting via bus or bike
Interested candidates, please contact us.
We would like to see a current resume, and a letter of interest.
The letter of interest is our chance to get to know you a little better, and understand why you feel your skillset makes you an ideal candidate for the job.
Financial Controller
Hours: 40 Hours Per Week, at our facility in Northeast Portland
Work location: 12450 NE Marx Portland, Oregon 97230
Rate of Pay: $75,000 - $85,000 per year + Stock Options
Monday-Friday between the hours of 8am-5pm.
This is an in-person job. The workspace is spacious, and filled with light and plants!
We’re looking for a budding accounting professional who is interested in what we do and has the skillset and desire to dig deep into improving our growing organization’s financial health. Excellent communication skills, knowledge of accounting operations, financial reporting and GAAP accounting knowledge, budgeting, and financial analysis are all desired skills for this role.
As a growing manufacturing business with several sales channels, we hope to find someone who can assist us to establish clear financial policies and procedures, oversee day-to-day accounting operations (including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and bank reconciliations), refine our cost and profitability analyses, further develop our budgeting and forecasting, and oversee the production of financial reports and statements, including month-end and year-end close processes.
This role will work closely with the owner, other office staff, and participate in monthly meetings with our fractional CFO/accounting firm. Teamwork and collaboration across departments is important.
Job Description and Duties:
Overseeing Accounts Payable and Receivable, develop and document company procedures.
Payroll Support: Collaborate with other office staff in totaling staff hours and gathering other info needed each pay period. Completing Payroll Journal Entries.
Inventory Management, Purchasing, and Budget: Assist with the implementation of Advanced Inventory through Quickbooks Enterprise platform. Assist with weekly and monthly inventory management.
Complete monthly bank account reconciliations, and refine policies and procedures around closing our books.
Finalize monthly financial statements and review results with CEO.
Conduct in-depth profitability and margin analysis by key sales channels and products, in collaboration with CEO.
Further develop our sales and cash flow forecasts, in collaboration with CEO.
Participate in advisory board meetings, meetings with our financial advisor and fractional CFO, and board of director meetings as needed.
Benefits Offered:
**We offer paid sick time and vacation time. Sick time begins accruing at the start of work, and vacation time begins accruing after 6 months of employment.
**We offer a health insurance reimbursement for employees who work 30+ hours per week - you maintain your own individual health plan, and we'll contribute $275 per month towards that cost, giving you the flexibility to choose the plan that is best for you.
**We pay through a 30 minute lunch break, and provide snacks, tea, and coffee to enjoy while you're at work.
**$40 per month (retail value) in Mickelberry Gardens products provided to use and share with family and friends.
**$5.00 daily reimbursement available for commuting via bus or bike
**Stock option availability
Interested candidates, please contact us
We would like to see a current resume, and a letter of interest.
The letter of interest is our chance to get to know you a little better, and understand why you feel your skillset makes you an ideal candidate for the job.
Other Employment Information:
Mickelberry Gardens is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other federal, state or local protected class. We are also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. We are committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness, and we are able to grow and learn better together with a diverse team of employees.
We encourage candidates local to the Portland area to apply.
Mickelberry Gardens has the goal of hiring people who live close to our place of work. This ensures that tax dollars are invested back into the local economy, reduces the environmental impact of commuting, fosters community involvement, and preserves local employment opportunities.
Additional Employment Opportunities
We are always interested in hearing from people who like what we do and are interested in being a part of our team. We are especially interested in hearing from you if you have experience with the following:
- Natural Product Demos
- Farmers Market and Event Support
- Herbal Product/Food Manufacturing
- Production Support - packaging, bottling line
- GMP/HAACP/QA/QC
- Sales and Marketing of Natural Products
- Shipping and Fulfillment
Feel free to contact us via e-mail and introduce yourself!