Plant Accountant jobs in Lynchburg, VA

Job Title: Plant Accountant

Job Location: Stuarts Draft, VA

Summary:

The Plant Accountant will focus on financial areas including fixed asset management, physical raw material inventories, reconciliations, journal entries, monthly close, running month-end reports, petty cash, Sarbanes Oxley testing and maintenance, special projects, weekly reporting, payroll backup and maintaining production reporting systems. The ability to work independently with many different Plant disciplines is a critical component of success as is the ability to ensure accuracy of reports and analysis under tight time deadlines. Additionally, being able to multi-task and working on projects with little direction is required.

Major Duties/Responsibilities:

• SAP Routing Responsibility:

  • Assist in coordination with the Corporate Standards Group to ensure that SAP Routing and BOM development and maintenance process is timely an accurate so that ongoing reporting is reflected against credible standards.

• Plant Accounting and Controls

  Support Admin Services for all accounting related activities including:

  • Support month-end close processes which includes, Running month-end reports before close week, journal entries, and account reconciliations.
  • Month-end reporting - waste, overweight, rework, key measures, SOX documentation etc.
  • Sarbanes Oxley testing - complete yearly testing requirements and support quarterly sign-offs
  • SAP - Run test settlements, clear COGI, clear OS&Ds.
  • Tracking costs of sales samples and transferring to internal order.
  • Other - Store Money, Petty cash control and administration of recognition awards.
  • Assist in the identification and resolution of LPR reporting issues.

• Fixed assets Administration - Assist in responsibility for completion of fixed asset reporting at a Plant level. Duties will include:

  • Accumulate and provide information to the Corporate fixed asset group for the addition, deletion, and updating of new assets in the SAP fixed asset ledger.
  • Ensure complete, accurate fixed asset ledger recording. Work with Plant Engineering and Purchasing staffs to accurately track and administer additions, disposals, and tagging of fixed assets.
  • Perform periodic fixed asset audits which will involve selecting assets from SAP and agreeing them to the production floor and vice versa.
  • Assume budget responsibility for the depreciation cost center including developing depreciation budgets and outlooks.

• Analytical & Profit Plan Support: Support Admin Services and other Plant disciplines in completing the annual profit plan (while proofing all profit plan inputs with appropriate check & balance techniques. Tasks will include:

  • Support review of standards for planning process including, case outputs, crewing, waste, overweight, & rework.

  • Assist in the creation of and input to spreadsheets to allow cost center managers to prepare detail of budgets for upcoming year.

  • Review and verify accuracy of charges to all Plant cost centers. Follow up with Cost Center Managers from outside of the Plant on unusual charges and resolve incorrect charges.

  • Inputting of all cost center budgets into SAP from supporting detail prepared by cost center managers.

• Physical Inventory Count & Analysis -

  • Support month-end physical counts of WIP and finished goods.
  • Gather and analyze inventory receipt documentation to confirm accuracy and completeness.
  • Escalate and follow up on issues with receiving personnel and corporate sourcing personnel to assure resolution and assist in development of corrective actions.
  • Complete weekly raw material cycle count
  • Assist inventory and process analyst in analyzing inventory variances.
  • Coordinate with Hershey buyers and commodities to clear GR/IR discrepancies from distorting inventory counts.
  • Complete monthly rework inventory count, reconcile SAP and LPR rework inventory, account for all rework on plant floor and in trailers

• Weekly Variance and weekly LPR Key measures reporting:

  • Update LPR performance files and send email to salaried personnel when complete.
  • Run ad hoc reports to help BU investigate weekly budget variances.
  • Validate production hours between LPR and AIM systems, daily.

• Miscellaneous Analysis:

  • Perform miscellaneous reports, special projects and analysis as required on an ongoing basis to include, but not limited to, review and analysis of vehicle usage and fuel reports to assure compliance with corporate policies.
  • Assist payroll in new production position creation.
  • Support the activities of the business unit to which assigned. Assist Business Unit leader researching questions as assigned.

Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required to successfully perform major duties/responsibilities:

• SAP experience

• Advanced Spreadsheet Skills - Excel required

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

Minimum education & experience requirements:

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

• Up to one year of accounting experience preferably in a manufacturing environment is preferred.

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