Plant Accountant - Hammond, United States - Vaco Technology

Description

• Manage the plant accounting and financial function to perform the full range of general and cost accounting processes and a broad range of financial analyses
  
• Provide continuous guidance to plant leadership team for optimal performance of facility's labor force, primary and secondary manufacturing processes, products, support cost centers, and capital appropriations
  
• Assure alignment with internal policy/procedure and general financial / accounting controls
  
• Responsible for the facility in terms of financial close/analysis/reporting of results, identifying root cause of financial variances, and guiding financial corrective actions to meet high performance commitments
  
• Deliver timely and accurate monthly/periodic statements of financial results and balance sheet reconciliations which meet the internal financial reporting needs of the facility as well as regional organization.
• Analyze, interpret and explain financial and operating data and underlying root cause of variance for clear corrective actions recommendations to appropriate function heads to control costs and inventories.
• Develop annual budget and product cost standards.
• Oversee financial management of the Facility's execution of capital plans including financial oversight of expenditure appropriation requests, construction in progress and fixed asset accounting and post-completion audit of major capital projects.
• Assist in regular communications with all facility personnel on financial performance and performance improvement programs
  
• Oversee all aspects of inventory cycle counts and physical inventories.
• Assume special project leadership assignments as required to assist change management in financial systems, processes, business rules, and other aspects of continuous improvement.

• 7+ years experience in accounting
• Advanced Excel skills
• SAP or similar ERP experience