Plant Accountant

About the Role

This is a salaried exempt position responsible for maintaining the integrity of production and costing transactions, analyzing costing and inventory variances, and providing management with detailed reports for review.

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 and 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 differences between actual and projected.
• Ensures compliance with established cycle count procedures and 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 reconcile 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.
• Provides additional accounting support, prepares multiple reports and analyses, and assists plant management in understanding cost variances and other operating measures.
• Prepares supporting documentation for audits and assists auditors as needed.
• Maintains spreadsheets and other records to support the budgeting process.
• Frequently supports special projects for accounting and other departments.
• Participates in team meetings and fosters strong cohesiveness regarding major issues such as direction, annual plans, and policy changes.
• Identifies areas lacking cohesiveness and works to resolve them with the team.
• Is familiar with Simmons' established operating systems (e.g., quality, security, office environment, company policies, LEAN) and understands the responsibility to maintain familiarity with these systems.
• Performs other duties as necessary in support of business objectives.

Requirements

• 0-3 years' accounting experience.
• Preference for experience with an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel.
• Strong preference for manufacturing experience, with a preference for food processing.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business.

We value military experience and welcome veterans to join our team.

Physical Activities

• Enters and locates information on a computer.
• Visually verifies information, often in small print.
• Presents information to small or large groups.
• Frequently required to talk and hear, and communicate with customers, vendors, or employees via telephone, in person, and/or electronic mail.
• Requires ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out to file documents into (or pull from) cabinets.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 lbs.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) may be required when visiting facilities.

Travel

May at times need to travel to and from multiple facilities or work-sites, possibly requiring overnight stays.