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    senior cost accountant - Seattle, United States - Trident Seafoods

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    Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident's global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.

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    Summary: The Senior Cost Accountant supports the financial management of Trident's fishing and processing operations. This position, based in Trident Seafoods' Support Center in Seattle, WA, typically supports several seafood processing plants and/or several of our vessels with clear, timely, and actionable financial reporting.

    Key Responsibilities:
    • Prepares operations labor and overhead spending budgets and supports allocation of standard costs across product forms
    • Drives the accounting month-end process by preparing accrual journal entries, raw material cost allocations, reclassifying operating expenses and distributing manufacturing variances by product and categories.
    • Generates and distributes weekly/monthly/quarterly spend, inventory, and production reports as needed.
    • Partners with the operational leadership and engineering department to support capital budgeting for assigned operations. This includes project approval write-ups, spend reporting, project tracking, forecasts, and fixed asset closeouts
    • Track, validates, and assists in planning of continuous improvement and cost savings projects
    • Monitor and analyzes trends in labor and overhead spending, production volume and mix, and material usage. Works with management team to identify and understand variances
    • Completes and presents financial analysis in support of operational decisions, and reports results of assigned locations
    • Monitors the preparation and maintenance of item bills of material and cost routings. Prepares and loads activity rates, and any additive costs to our ERP system (SAPH4)
    • Provide support with internal and external audit requests as well as compliance reporting
    Additional Responsibilities:
    • Acquires knowledge of Trident's Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activities in accordance with training and procedures/work instructions.
    • Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented, in accordance with Environmental Awareness and/or safety trainings.
    Minimum Requirements

    Minimum Qualifications:
    • A minimum of 3 years finance/accounting experience required
    • Manufacturing or operations fianc/accounting experience required
    • Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance from four-year college or university
    • Strong Financial Analysis skills and knowledge of Cost Accounting principles - Experience with an integrated ERP system
    • Ability to travel to Alaska up to 10% of the time for 1 to 2 weeks at a time
    Preferred Qualifications:
    • MBA, CPA, or CMA preferred
    • Food industry experience
    • Experience with SAP Controlling (CO), MM, and SCM functionality
    Physical Demands:

    While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use a computer for long periods and often sit at a desk in an office enviornment.

    The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. During visits to production locations, the employee will need normal vision and hearing to safely navigate production floors and warehouses.

    The employee moves objects occasionally up to 10 pounds

    This is a salaried exempt position with an annualized salary range of $95,000 to $110,000.

    Trident Seafoods offers a comprehensive and quality benefits package. Full time employees may be eligible for medical, dental and vision insurance plans, optional HRA/HSA, telemedicine, employee assistance and wellness programs, basic life and AD&D, and 401(k) with a company match, vacation, sick time, 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave. For full-time employees, the initial vacation benefit starts at 10 days per year, adjusted commensurate with relevant experience, and 7 days of sick leave per year (9 in Seattle), accrued bi-weekly. Commuter and transit programs are also available.

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