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Senior Cost Accountant

Job Description: 

Taylor Farms is a family owned organization dedicated to being North America’s largest supplier of salads, cut vegetables, and healthy fresh foods. Our “Taylor Family” includes more than 8,000 dedicated team members, who are passionate about making high quality, great tasting products for families across North America.

Taylor Farms has a career opportunity available for a talented and motivated individual to join our team in Chicago, IL as a Senior Cost Accountant.

The Senior Cost Accountant will support the performance improvement within our operations and an aggressive plan to reduce COGs, optimize product mix and pricing and reduce overhead.  A 40% division of this role is to perform routine accounting functions with plant reporting, month-end close activities, bill of material maintenance, inventory control, and cost roll-up.  The remaining 60% is to drive cost savings, working closely with operations leadership to support new activity costing methods, productivity tracking and overall COGS reduction projects. 

The success of this role is dependent on a passion to provide solutions for the obvious, as well as a more extroverted personality to work in a close-knit and dynamic fresh food manufacturing environment. 

Compensation/Salary: 
DOE
Requirements: 
  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
  • 5-7 years cost experience in a manufacturing company.
  • Proven ability to collect, analyze, and draw conclusions from data of varying complexity, including but not limited to plant labor and productivity, manufacturing variances, key performance metrics, new item pricing, customer/item margin analysis, bills of materials, etc.
  • Comfortable working with and presenting recommendations to all levels of the organization, including senior management and operations.
  • Technical Skills and Prior Experience.
  • Must be PC proficient and able to thrive in a fast -pace setting.
  • Experience with large automated accounting systems and strong Microsoft Excel skills.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal, supervisory, and customer service skills required.
  • Ability to multi-task, work under pressure, and meet deadlines required.
Responsibilities & Duties: 
  • Work with plant controller and operations excellence manager to track cost savings projects. Ensure that cost savings are measure appropriately.
  • Calculate, analyze, account for, and report monthly cost variances for direct materials, direct labor, indirect labor and manufacturing overhead; provide solutions that will drive execution and support execution as needed. 
  • Execute and maintain procedures for accurately and consistently calculating production rates, downtime, change-over times and other plant or department performance measures.
  • Work with plant controller to track cost savings projects.
  • Ensure that cost savings are measure appropriately.
  • Calculate and report yields, material usage variances, labor variances, and other inventory losses.
  • Establish procedures for yield validation and simplify this effort in order to cross train and drive execution.  
  • Maintain an accurate perpetual inventory.
  • Work with other departments to conduct and reconcile physical inventory cycle counts and analyze and report variances.
  • Maintain the line items for direct materials, labor, and overhead on the bill of material or recipe for each product.
  • Assist sales with product pricing using an already defined methodology.
  • Develop management reports for plants and corporate to support decision making.
  • Process journal entries as necessary and support staff accountant duties when required.
  • Generate, collect and report on daily, weekly and monthly key performance indicators, working with the various stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve the processes affecting KPI results.
  • Perform special projects as needed.

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