SummaryWe're looking for a Cost Accountant to play a key role supporting our Live Operations. You'll drive accurate financial reporting, month-end closings, and balance sheet reconciliations for grow-out departments, feed mills, and hatcheries. This role also supports weekly grower pay settlements, collaborating with management to resolve issues and ensure smooth operations. If you enjoy hands-on accounting work and want to make a real impact on operations, this is an exciting opportunity to apply your skills in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
The salary range for this position is $68,000 - $102,000 per year, based on experience and qualifications with annual bonus available (variable depending on performance).
In addition to the base salary, Perdue offers a competitive benefits package, including medical/Rx, 401(k) with employer match after 1-year, critical illness, accident insurance, dental, vision, life insurance, optional group life insurance, short-term and long-term disability protection, flexible spending accounts and paid time off.
Principal Essential Duties & Responsibilities - Responsible for adhering to generally accepted accounting principles for assigned feed mills, hatchery and grow-out areas. Accurate accounting and balance sheet preparation by established deadlines required monthly.
- Management reporting on a timely, accurate and consistent basis. Includes ad hoc analysis and reporting for Accounting and Operations Management.
- Maintain accounting controls by performing annual payroll, receivables, capital assets, Internal Controls SOPs, and feed mill inventory audits for all assigned facilities.
- Assist in the preparation of annual operating plans.
- Act as back up for posting weekly settlements and supporting Settlement Coordinators which would include:
- Have a thorough understanding of the MTech system and all the growing programs. Have sufficient knowledge to be back up for all coordinators for settlement process.
- Have responsibility for coordinating Mtech updates to support new growing programs or new/revised payment terms/incentives/bonuses.
- Set up new weekly audit procedures to ensure that settlements are accurate.
- Post Broiler settlements and tie out producers pay to SAP for weekly payments to contract growers.
- Maintain weekly litter standards and monthly medication, supplies, and production admin standards in Mtech.
- Address settlement-related issues with Grow Out, Coordinators, and Fuel Clerk and fuel companies.
- Dotted line supervision of fuel settlement clerk.
- Address requests from operations for data corrections/changes in Mtech for chick placements, feed, or processing transactions as needed.
- Create and upload weekly and monthly Agristats data files.
- Manage process with coordinators and address issues related to Kofax indexing of settlement documents.
- Perform other tasks as assigned.
Minimum Education and Experience - Bachelor's degree in accounting.
- 2 - 3 years of cost accounting experience.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment.
- Flexible hours to accommodate settlements on Tuesday and special projects that arise due to the nature of live accounting environment.
- Availability to travel to assist with Live audits outside of the Delmarva area, as needed.
- Strong math, analytical, and organizational skills with a good working knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Experience with SAP would be considered a plus.
Preferred Education and Experience Physical Requirements and Environmental Factors - Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings.
- May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another.
- May need to access files, supplies and equipment.
- Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment.
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