Sr Staff Accountant

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Manufacturing Accounting Process
• Independently manage and oversee daily manufacturing accounting processes.
• Review and validate production reporting, inventory backflushing, manufacturing entries, and related transactions in JD Edwards.
• Analyze production, material usage, labor, overhead, yield, scrap, and inventory variances.
• Investigate significant or unusual variances, determine root causes, and communicate findings and recommend corrective actions to Operations and the Plant Controller.
• Partner with Operations to improve the accuracy and timeliness of production reporting and manufacturing transactions.

• Monitor manufacturing accounting activities to ensure transactions are complete, properly supported, and recorded in the appropriate accounting period bill of material
  • Lead the creation, review, and maintenance of bills of materials, routings, and related product-costing information.
  • Review new and revised bills of materials for accuracy.
  • Analyze the financial impact of formula changes, packaging changes, substitutions, new products, and process improvements.
  • Support standard-cost updates, cost-roll activities, new product costing, and annual cost-setting processes.
  • Monitor BOM accuracy and investigate material usage or cost variances that may indicate master-data or production-reporting issues.
• Month end closing responsibilities.
  • Independently perform assigned month-end and year-end closing responsibilities in accordance with established deadlines.
  • Prepare and post standard, recurring, and adjusting journal entries with complete and accurate supporting documentation.
  • Prepare complex balance-sheet account reconciliations and resolve reconciling items promptly.
  • Perform manufacturing account analysis and explain significant period-over-period, budget-to-actual, and standard-to-actual variances.
  • Ensure expenses, receipts, inventory activity, accruals, and adjustments are recorded in the correct accounting period.
  • Support the Plant Controller with financial statement review, closing schedules, management reporting, and audit requests.
• Inventory
  • Provide accounting leadership for cycle counts, physical inventories, inventory reconciliations, and related control activities.
  • Coordinate with Operations and Warehouse teams to promote accurate inventory reporting across raw materials, packaging, work-in-process, and finished goods.
  • Independently research inventory discrepancies, identify root causes, and recommend appropriate adjustments or corrective actions.
  • Prepare and process approved inventory adjustments supported by cycle-count results.
  • Review negative inventory, unprocessed transactions, inventory movements, transfer activity, and other exceptions that may affect inventory accuracy.
  • Review inventory adjustments and significant variances with the Plant Controller and Operations leadership.
• Responsible for food safety and quality.
• Other tasks as assigned.