Production Accountant

Production Accountant

Bachoco USA Production Accountant

Bachoco Group is a leading multi-business and multiprotein producer, and one of the top ten largest globally, with over 40,000 employees. We offer a wide portfolio of products, including chicken, eggs, pork, beef, pet food, and more. Through Bachoco USA, we deliver high-quality chicken products to the U.S. market, serving retail, food service, and national accounts through our fully integrated operations, which include farms, hatcheries, feed mills, and processing plants.

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Bachoco USA is seeking a Production Accountant for our Albertville, AL location

Summary: The Production Accountant assists the Complex Accounting Manager in the accurate recording of all plant production transactions. This includes, but is not limited to accurate daily reporting of production by production order, line and shift; accurate daily, weekly and month end inventories for meat and all dry goods. The Production Accountant will perform weekly inventory tests that comply with all SOX requirements.

The Production Accountant will provide timely and accurate KPI reporting daily, weekly and monthly to plant and company management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Operate a computer with Microsoft Windows-based programs. Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Quick learner in using our in-house ERP system and/or SAP to compare actual expenditures with expected expenditures.
• Assist all levels of management, plant and corporate, with the preparation and analysis of weekly, monthly and quarterly operating reports, and statistics.
• Aid the Complex Accounting Manager with the weekly financial presentations to upper management concerning prior week’s results.
• Travel to all plant locations to help facility personnel understand their respective operating reports and how to be accountable for them.
• Track volumes, statistics, and dollars on a weekly, monthly, year-to-date, and annual basis.
• Analyze variances to expected outcomes or operating standards.
• Assist Complex Accounting Manager with balance sheet management of inventory quantities and valuation. Ensure monthly reconciliation of assigned accounts.
• Analyze weekly large variances in actual versus standard results and discuss them with management.
• Work with plant/operations management to ensure accurate reporting of all production transactions.
• Maintain all SOX controls and ensure documentation requirements are complete and accurate.
• Assist Complex Accounting Manager in providing analytical research on Agri Stats comparisons and provide operating data to said firm on a monthly basis.
• Other duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This position has no direct reports.

Qualifications

• Education and/or

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Business related major or equivalent work experience.

• Language: Bi-lingual in Spanish is not required, but a plus.

• Skills: Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

• Computer: Knowledge of email software, accounting systems, spreadsheet software and word processing software.

• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: No specific certificates, licenses, or registrations needed.

• Physical Demands: Regularly sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, speak or hear. Frequently stand and walk. Occasionally climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. Lift up to 10 pounds routinely and up to 50 pounds occasionally.

• Work Environment: Moderate noise level with potential exposure to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions, extreme temperatures, risk of electrical shock and vibration.

• Bachoco USA reserves the right to conduct background screenings for positions deemed necessary and in accordance with applicable laws. An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.