Cost Accountant-Plainville Farms

Job Description

Job Description

Welcome to Plainville Farms®

Rooted in nearly 200 years of family farming, Plainville Farms is built on a simple belief: do things the right way. That commitment shapes how we care for our animals, our land, our customers, and our people. We’re looking for talented individuals who share our commitment to quality, integrity, accountability, and doing work that makes a difference.

Join our team and help us continue a tradition of care, quality, and bringing people together around the table.

Position Summary

The Cost Accountant is responsible for managing the standard cost system and for assisting in the month end close process, including inventory valuation and cost of sales reconciliation.  The incumbent ensures that the accounting information relative to inventories and operational results follows accepted accounting principles.

Essential Job Functions

• Set and maintain standard costs in conjunction with supply chain.
• Analyze changes in products, ingredients, raw materials, and production methods to determine effects on costs. Identify, audit, and track product cost changes to ensure they are accurate.
• Serve as coordinator on the monthly physical counts of the company’s inventories. Enter monthly inventories and analyze actual costs and standard costs as well as variances from standards.
• Maintain the bill of materials in the Navision system to reflect materials used and produced, and correctly represent the manufacturing process of products that will result in cost development.
• Support the monthly financial closing process by preparing journal entries; reconciling inventories, revenue, costs of goods sold, and balance sheets.
• Perform other business cost analysis and related duties, as assigned.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 2 - 3 years cost accounting experience (preferably in a food processing environment).
• Thorough understanding of the manufacturing processes and bills of materials.
• Strong verbal and interpersonal skills; ability to relate effectively with a variety of people.
• Ability to organize and manage your own time effectively.
• Advanced experience in Microsoft Excel and Word, as well as with an ERP system. Experience with Crystal Reports a plus.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

• The employee is required to talk and/or hear in an office setting (noise level is low) and manufacturing setting where noise levels can be high (PPE required). 
• The employee is frequently required to stand and walk in an office or manufacturing environment from 4-8+ hours.
• The employee must be able to ascend and descend stairs, and where applicable and when necessary, to perform various job-related tasks
• Must be able to position self to move, reach with arms/hands, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as needed to perform various job-related tasks
• The employee must be able to inspect all job-related equipment (office or floor) to ensure it is in good working condition prior to use.  Must be able to use hands/fingers to handle (or feel) to operate various types of office equipment.
• Must be able to operate all job-related equipment (powered, hand or office) as required
• Vision requirements: close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception and adjust focus
• Ability to lift 20 pounds and/or push/pull 20 pounds on a regular or occasional basis
• Must have ability to travel to clients, customers, or other work sites by a variety of transportation methods

This job description is not all encompassing, however, is intended to be a general description of the essential functions of this position. It is not intended as an employment contract.