Plant Accountant

Simmons Foods•Van Buren, AR

22d•Onsite

About The Position

Maintains the integrity of production and costing transactions. Analyzes costing and inventory variances to management for review. This is a Salary Exempt position. The role involves maintaining production units and raw materials usage in the system, collecting, reviewing, and verifying shop floor documents, and entering this data into the ERP system. It also includes reconciling manufacturing variances and/or inventory reports, generating variance and inventory reports, tracking differences between actual and projected figures, and ensuring compliance with cycle count procedures. The position requires collaboration with production or warehouse staff to resolve discrepancies and timely submission, accuracy, and validity of cost variances. Verification of balances to the general ledger at month-end, posting journal entries, and preparing account reconciliations are also key responsibilities. The role involves preparing weekly and monthly variance and inventory analysis, distributing reports to management, and responding to queries from upper plant management. Additionally, the Plant Accountant provides accounting support, prepares reports and analyses, assists the plant management team in understanding cost variances and other operating measures, prepares supporting documentation for audits, and maintains spreadsheets for the budgeting process. The position also supports special projects for accounting and other departments and participates as a member of the Team, contributing to the development, communication, and implementation of team concepts, programs, and policies. Familiarity with Simmons' established operating systems (e.g., quality, security, office environment, company policies, LEAN) is expected, along with understanding the responsibility to maintain this familiarity and the role in supporting these systems. Performs other duties as necessary in support of business objectives.

Requirements

0-3 years’ accounting experience.
Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel.
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business.

Nice To Haves

Experience with an Enterprise Resource Planning system.
Manufacturing experience.
Food processing experience.

Responsibilities

Maintains production units and raw materials usage in the system.
Collects, reviews, and verifies shop floor documents.
Calculates production units and raw material usage, enters into the ERP system.
Collaborates with production staff to resolve discrepancies.
Communicates issues to accounting or operations management as appropriate.
Reconciles manufacturing variances and/or inventory reports and transactions.
Generates manufacturing variance, finished goods and material inventory reports and tracks difference between actual and projected.
Ensures compliance to established cycle count procedures.
Collaborates with production or warehouse staff to resolve discrepancies.
Elevates unresolved issues to manager for further direction or support.
Ensures timely submission, accuracy, and validity of cost variances.
Verifies balances reconciles to the general ledger at month-end and may maintain balance sheet accounts, including posting journal entries and preparing account reconciliations.
Prepares weekly and monthly variance and inventory analysis and distributes to management.
Responds to queries from upper plant management.
Prepares multiple reports and analyses.
Assists plant management team in understanding costs variances and other operating measures.
Prepares supporting documentation for audits and assists auditors as needed.
Maintains spreadsheets and other records to support budgeting process.
Supports special projects for accounting and other departments.
Participates in the ongoing development, communication and implementation of team concepts, programs and policies; coordinates work to ensure best practices with all team members.
Attends appropriate team meetings.
Fosters strong cohesiveness regarding all major issues; e.g., direction, annual plan, budget, policy changes, etc.
Accepts responsibility to quickly identify any areas that lack cohesiveness, bringing them to the attention of the team leader and working with the team in a supportive manner to resolve issues and actively look for ways, and reinforce actions needed, to achieve synergy possible within the larger organization.
Is familiar with Simmons’ established operating systems (e.g. quality, security, office environment, company policies, LEAN); understands the responsibility to maintain familiarity with the systems and this position’s role in support of these systems - including a consideration of the impact of individual actions on the systems and the responsibility to communicate concerns and improvement ideas.
Performs other duties as necessary in support of business objectives.