Plant Accountant

About the Role

Maintains the integrity of production and costing transactions. Analyzes costing and inventory variances for management review.

Key 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, and enters data 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, tracking the difference between actual and projected.
• Ensures compliance with 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 and reconciles to the general ledger at month-end; 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.
• Assists the plant management team 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 as a member of the Team, fostering strong cohesiveness.
• 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.
• Accepts responsibility to quickly identify any areas that lack cohesiveness, bringing them to the attention of the team leader and working with the team to resolve issues.
• Actively looks for ways to achieve synergy within the larger organization.
• Familiar with Simmons’ established operating systems (e.g., quality, security, office environment, company policies, LEAN) and understands the responsibility to maintain familiarity and this position’s role in support of these systems, including the impact of individual actions and the responsibility to communicate concerns and improvement ideas.
• Performs other duties as necessary in support of business objectives.

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.
• Communicates 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.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 10lbs.

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• As required by visiting facility.

Travel

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

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system experience is preferred.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business.
• 0-3 years of accounting experience.
• Strong preference for manufacturing experience, with preference for food processing.