921 Accounting - Senior Accountant
Hytrol Conveyor
- Jonesboro, AR
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Assist with the monthly financial close process, including preparing/reviewing journal entries, closing various month-end ERP modules, and performing balance sheet reconciliations.
- Validate accrual amounts vs. spending and suggest true-up amounts on a quarterly basis.
- Track, report, and analyze plant cost factors such as labor, overhead, and freight.
- Track and report plant scrap and inventory material usage variances.
- Performs monthly fluctuation analysis, manufacturing cost variance analysis, and price variance analysis.
- Assists in physical inventories and cycle counting process as appropriate and monitors monthly inventory levels (raw material, WIP, and finished goods).
- Book to Perpetual and Book to Physical variance analysis and root cause analysis.
- Audits and maintains fixed asset schedules; Works with project owners to ensure timely capitalization of equipment placed in service.
- Validate capital spending with project owners to ensure accurate monthly reporting and facilitate the quarterly capital review meetings.
- Ensure the integrity of the financial information generated.
- Help to implement consistency and process improvements in inventory control.
- Performs product line profitability analysis.
- Analyze and review bills of material to ensure accurate product costing.
- Will occasionally act as a backup for Accounts Receivable.
- Assist in performing post-capital project audits to verify savings that are being realized.
- Assists with preparing monthly and quarterly manufacturing census reports.
- Assists in the preparation of various reporting spreadsheets for tax or other government agencies.
- Help to ensure adherence to Hytrol’s accounting/internal control procedures.
- Performs special studies and analyses under the request and supervision of management.
- Strong knowledge of process controls in a manufacturing environment.
- Ability to work in a team environment across all levels of the organization is essential.
- Strong analytical, organizational, time management, and multi-tasking skills.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel are a must, and experience in other data analytics software is a plus.
- The financial nature and scope of responsibilities require any successful candidate for this role to be a person who is detail oriented.