Operations Accounting Supervisor

Responsibilities

• Leadership Team mentoring and leadership including establishment of individual goals, mid year and annual performance reviews
• Strengthen internal communications with staff at all levels throughout the organization; create and promote a positive and supportive work environment
• Leverage strengths of the team members, help to clarify roles and responsibilities and develop training programs to maximize and reach optimal individual and organizational goals
• Plant and Cost Accounting Execution of month-end, quarter-end, and annual close duties, including accruals and reviewing financial information to ensure the financials are accurately and timely reported.
• Prepare and post journal entries, and reconcile accounts
• Maintain and validate cost models for ethylene and polyethylene products
• Support margin analysis by product grade, unit, and process stream
• New month standard cost update
• Balance sheet account reconciliations
• Monthly execution of the standard cost actualization program and reporting requirements
• Oversee the creation of Bill of Materials for manufacturing processes along with creation of material master records
• Annual update of plant fixed/variable cost utility rates for Standard Costs
• Annual input of fixed/variable costs budget into SAP, working closely with the team throughout the budget process
• Monitoring of actual versus standard costing and adjusting as needed
• Month-end Mass Balance exercise and production output reporting used by the manufacturing teams
• Aid plant management with the cost savings/profit improvement programs
• Establish the savings tracking models
• Verify financial information on the cost savings/profit improvement plans to ensure accuracy
• Prepare operational KPI reports, utilities variance analysis, and energy data reports to analyze utilities and energy consumption for the plant
• Validation of costs to ensure accurate capture of expenditures
• Unreleased service entry management and reporting
• Monthly HDA Plant billings based on the outsourced operational agreement
• Reconciliation of utilities, maintenance, and payroll benefit accrual accounts of estimate vs. actual and making necessary postings
• Monthly Cracker Accruals, Product Unit pricing in SAP, and Production/Consumption Costing
• Maintain and improve Internal Controls that support the plant accounting function
• Facilitate internal and external audit needs as needed
• Technical support for the annual financial audit
• Development of accounting manual(s)
• Maintenance and improvement of Delegation of Authority tables in SAP
• Afford assistance with resolving DOA "blocked" transactions
• Review GRC and coordinate with IT security and suggest solutions to resolve any SAP user role conflicts
• Monthly GR/IR reconciliation and ensure goods receipts are properly accrued and matched with vendor invoices, so that outstanding items are cleared timely (GR/IR process)
• Inventory & Materials Management
• Ensure accuracy of inventories
• Perform month-end inventory revaluation procedures, establish slow moving/obsolete reserves, and handle overall costing of inventory
• Ensure inventory costs are accurate
• Investigate month-end count variances and help with root-cause corrective actions
• Support inventory reporting
• FIFO inventory valuations and inventory reconciliation of finished goods and raw materials
• Quarterly analysis of the LC/NRV inventory valuation

  CORE VALUES

  • Caring: Dedicated to Safety, Employees, Customers, Community and Environment
  • Trustworthy: Living a Culture of Openness, Honesty and Collaboration
  • Connected: Build Strong Partnerships
  • Driven for Excellence: Commit to Continuous Improvement

  COMPETENCIES

  • Job Knowledge - Understands facets of job, aware of duties and responsibilities, keep job knowledge current
  • Productivity - Manages workload, works efficiently, meets goals and objectives
  • Quality - Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve product/services
  • Safety – HSSE - Works in a safe manner, uses PPE, recognizes hazards, makes safety suggestions and observations, current on Training
  • Mine Qualifications / Experience Required
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
  • A minimum of 10 years relevant experience in supervising a manufacturing and cost accounting function from an industry or enterprise with an extensive conversion process
  • Proven ability to lead and mentor teams for success
  • Understanding of and ability to apply IFRS and US GAAP reporting requirements
  • Extensive experience using automated accounting and reporting systems
  • Experience with SAP FI-CO and other integrated modules
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively with both functional and cross-functional teams
  • Relationship-building skills; develop and maintain productive relationships with extended Baystar team and Service Providers
  • Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
  • Commitment to safety
  • Personal qualities of integrity, credibility, commitment and accountability
  • MS Office application competence (Excel, Powerpoint, Word)
  • Adaptability and flexibility

  PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS / EXPERIENCE

  • Experience in the Petrochemical Manufacturing environment
  • CPA licensed
  • Experience with Power Apps or Power Query tools
  • ERP system implementation experience

  Physical Capacity Requirements

  • Follow safety requirements for the role
  • Wear required PPE (eye protection, noise protection, etc.) when inside plant environment, or where directed by signage
  • Lift up to 10 pounds
  • Walk safely in and around industrial areas
  • Work under deadline pressure within an environment that demands attention to safety and detail
  • Sit or stand for extended periods of time