Senior Cost Accountant

Senior Manufacturing Cost Accountant

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We are currently seeking a qualified individual for the Senior Manufacturing Cost Accountant position, joining our Nottingham, PA team on-site!

Schedule: Monday-Friday approximately 40+ hours a week

Benefits: This position is full-time benefit eligible, elective benefits include:

• Medical, dental, hearing and vision insurance.
• Marathon Health Clinic - a premier on-site healthcare provider. A separate entity from Herr's, located at our Nottingham, PA facility. This facility ensures easy access to tailored healthcare services, preventative care, wellness programs, for employees on any medical plan
• Opportunity to contribute to a 401k, company profit sharing.
• Paid vacation, holiday and sick time.
• Paid Employee referral program.

Job Summary: The Senior Manufacturing Cost Accountant is responsible for overseeing and analyzing all aspects of manufacturing cost accounting, including standard costing, inventory valuation, variance analysis, and margin improvement and performance. Participate will partner with operations, supply chain and finance leadership driving operational improvement and cost transparency with Herr Foods Inc.

Key Responsibilities

Cost Accounting, Inventory and Monthly/Year-End Closing:

• Lead annual and periodic standard cost rollups and revaluation
• Maintain and update standard cost for raw materials, labor overhead and finished goods
• Maintain item master
• Validate accuracy of BOM (bill of materials) and routings in ERP (D365 – Microsoft)
• Perform analysis on manufacturing variances (material, labor, overhead, usage rates, mix and yields) and explain key drivers to finance and operational leadership
• Oversee inventory valuation; Raw, WIP and Finished Goods
• Monitor inventory accuracy: movement of inventory, physical inventory (PI's), cycle counts and build out calculations for inventory reserves on shrink and excess & obsolete write offs
• Support monthly close activities on manufacturing and inventory accounts
• Perform journal entry, account reconciliations, and analytics on variances
• Perform cost and margin reporting by product, customer and plant
• Respond to auditor's questions

Manufacturing Operations Support and Leadership:

• Work with Plant leadership supporting
• Cost reductions and productivity initiatives
• Collaborate with co-workers and business leaders to leverage knowledge and experience to improve processes, procedures and the work environment to eliminate inefficient and ineffective processes and procedures.
• Identifies opportunities to enhance internal controls and support regulatory compliance and business planning
• Performs technical accounting research and analysis and prepares accounting memos that clearly document conclusions on areas that include revenue recognition and other topics.
• Involved in the development, use, and application of updates to the accounting software, including the maintenance of the module with the most current models, metrics, and data
• Leads special projects.
• Providing cost analysis on new product and process changes
• Maintaining item master & build out of routings, BOM accuracy and labor standards
• Reviewing plant capital investments
• Serve as a role model to foster a collaborative, high achieving and supportive environment across all departments and businesses

Transport:

• Oversees all aspects of freight shipped via common carrier as it relates to accounting by utilizing the transportation management system (TMS).
• Works with logistics and outside freight companies for notification of delivered status for FOB: Destination loads for accuracy of sales revenue reporting.
• Manages tracking of common carrier paid loads for accruals needed at month-end close.
• Prepares various month-end journal entries related to freight for common carrier loads and Herrs internal fleet. This includes allocation of shipping materials, mileage, loader costs and allocation of freight charges at customer level.
• Prepares financial analysis of actuals vs budget related to common carrier costs for month-end close.

Communication:

• Effectively field questions, discuss accounting issues, explain financial tracking of key projects within a wide range of audiences with varying levels of financial acumen.
• Continuously improves systems and processes that will scale with the business.
• Coordinate and prepare auditor requests during the company's financial statement audits.
• Professionally communicate and collaborate with a positive and productive disposition in a complex environment with a focus on customer service.
• Develop and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external customers and works proactively to identify and solve problems
• Collaborate and share knowledge across all areas of accounting and finance.
• Communicate effectively while striving for the highest possible outcomes for customers and our organization.
• Develop strong working relationships with internal and external customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting and at least 5 years of progressive cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment
• CMA, CPA or MBA (preferred)
• Strong understanding of standard costing and manufacturing operations
• Demonstrates intermediate to advanced Excel skills.
• Understanding of Microsoft Dynamics (D365) or ERP systems
• Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of accounting theory, principles, practices and regulations.
• Understands and adheres to requirements for account reconciliation work papers
• Demonstrated successful use of technology to improve process efficiency.
• Proven ability to break down problems into meaningful parts and come to rational and well-thought-out conclusions and communicate them to a diverse audience.
• Wishes to work in a business environment in which every employee seeks to be great every day.

Herr's is proud to offer a variety of quality benefits and wellness programs where we have been recognized as a 5-time Well Workplace Award winner in the area! Elective benefits include medical, dental, vision and hearing insurance; long term disability, life insurance, accident, hospital and critical illness indemnity plans, critical illness indemnity plans, identity theft coverage, and legal plans. The company also provides opportunities to contribute to a 401k with generous company matching, annual company profit sharing, vacation, sick and holiday pay; EAP services, and tuition reimbursement. Benefits start the first of the month following 30 days of service (unless otherwise noted in plan description). Also enjoy low or no cost medical care through our Assured Excellence Program which provides high quality health care for orthopedic procedures, cancer treatments, cardiac surgery and care, along with treatment for many other conditions. Assured Excellence Program partners with nationally renowned facilities such as John Hopkins, Cleveland Clinic, Shriners Children's Hospital, Hazelden Betty Ford, and others. OSS Health Company Direct Program, based in York, PA, is available to benefit-eligible employees offering bundled package rates for orthopedic care and imaging.

Herr Foods Inc. is a drug-free workplace and an equal opportunity employer M/F/Veterans/Disabilities

In addition to the essential functions listed above, the employee is expected to exercise honesty, integrity and respect with all clients and co-workers, maintain a professional appearance and demeanor, demonstrate a positive attitude, communicate effectively with co-workers and clients, work with accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail, respect the work environment and keep it as environmentally friendly as possible, and exercise initiative to learn new skills and tasks and to help co-workers when possible. Reliable attendance and punctuality are also required.

The employee is also expected to perform such other duties, special projects and functions as required from time to time. Physical requirements and work environment:

• Performs work required for this position in an office environment.
• Remain sedentary for moderate to extended periods of time.
• Required to us a computer monitor, keyboard, mouse, and calculator for extended periods of time.
• Ability to lift up to 20 pounds on occasion.

About Herr Foods Inc.

Herr Foods Inc. is the largest privately owned salty snack food manufacturer and distributor in the country, we are based in Nottingham, PA and we think our 1600+ employees are pretty spectacular! We have been committed for the last 75+ years to making our Herr's family