Senior Accountant

System One is hiring a Sr Accountant for our client in Stuarts Draft, VA. They are a global food manufacturing plant. This is a contract to potential hire position

Senior Accountant overview

The Senior Accountants primary focus will be to understand and anticipate variance issues on the production lines and be the Line Performance Reporting (LPR) expert and champion for the plant.

The Senior Accountant will also lead management of inventories, production analysis, profit plan development, & take the lead in training accounting employees.

Senior Accountant Responsibilities:

Plant Performance Reporting: Support the Plant Controller in developing, analyzing, and reporting of performance, budgets, and outlooks, monthly close, and financial controls.

Assist in performing plant analytics and analysis of anomalies and variances to enable the plant to address issues and improve performance.

Assume responsibility for utilizing data analysis created above to determine causes of performance shortfalls. Issue performance reports that highlight performance shortfalls to applicable Plant users.

Work with Manufacturing and Plant Management to determine causes for significant long- and short-term performance shortfalls on Key Performance Indicators and focus efforts on overcoming any shortfalls.

Use outlooks and various performance analysis statistics. These statistics will include line mix. and production pounds. Use this analysis to assist in various outlook submissions to Corporate.

Finance.

Reporting to Corporate Finance.

Assist plant in delving more deeply into financial concerns or controls as required.

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Facilitate the development of the Plants quarterly SOX compliance reporting and annual testing of SOX process effectiveness. T

Inventory Control: Support the Inventory & Accounting Analyst in managing plant raw material, packaging, work-in-process, finished goods, and MRO inventories, while ensuring the presence of an adequate system of internal accounting controls.

Fixed Asset Control: Coordinate the annual fixed asset inventory process and facilitate the prompt disposition of fixed asset additions, deletions, and transfers in accordance with established procedures.

Annual Budget and Standards Revision Process: (may be up to 50% of time during months of August-October): Assist in the annual plan process by coordinating the establishment of new product standards, direct labor and variable overhead rates, and common overhead budgets. In addition this position will provide support through data input and assurance of earnings/expense.

balancing in SAP.

Linking of budget package, which provides summary of relevant profit plan details, to supporting detail.

Completion of other budget analysis as necessary

Complete special projects as assigned and provide additional accounting support as required.

Senior Accountant Requirements

SAP preferred

Advanced Spreadsheet Skills Excel required

Advanced Analytical Ability and good interpersonal skills.

Periodic Flexible Work Hours (Physical Inventories, Month-end Close,

Budgeting)

B. S. in Business related field required. Accounting or Finance Degree strongly preferred.

Advanced degree and/or certification (CPA, CMA, MBA) is preferred but not required.

Minimum 5 years of related manufacturing accounting experience required