Sr. Accountant
WernerCo.
ERP
Plant Accountant
Franklin Electric
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Wisconsin
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Junior
Tech Stack
ERPSQL
About the role
- Responsible for accounting functions at assigned plants and/or cost centers; includes period-ending accounting processes, reporting, asset management through inventory and accounting reconciliation, forecasting, budgeting, and general audit duties.
- Utilizes manufacturing cost accounting procedures.
- Tracks revenue and expenses and reviews finances for assigned plants/cost centers.
- Analyzes standard costs and researches cost change drivers.
- Analyzes data to detect deficient controls, duplicated efforts, fraud, or noncompliance with laws, regulations, and management policies.
- Researches complex transactions and prepares documentation outlining issues and conclusions.
- Works with business leaders to create business unit budget and forecasts.
- Prepares journal entries, period-end reporting, accruals, amortization schedules, and other reports.
- Reviews manufacturing accounting procedures and recommends changes to improve productivity and effectiveness.
- Conducts annual physical inventories or supports cycle counts throughout the year.
- Ensures internal control procedures are established and followed in accordance with Sarbanes Oxley and company guidelines.
- Assists with developing and updating reporting for Operational meetings for Global Product Supply and analyzes the results.
- Reviews working capital drivers and collaborates with the Operations team for optimization.
- Reviews financial analysis for capital intensive projects and provides guidance with the manufacturing team.
- Performs other related duties as required or assigned.
Requirements
- Effectively communicates information and responds to questions in person-to-person and small group situations with vendors, internal and external customers, the general public, and other employees of the organization.
- Reads and understands documents such as policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Writes routine reports and correspondence.
- Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides numbers (using currency and other forms of measurement).
- Utilizes common-sense understanding to carry out written, oral, or diagrammed instructions.
- Deals with problems involving several known variables in situations of routine nature.
- Plans the time, method, manner, and/or performance sequence of own work; may also occasionally assist in planning work assignments performed by others within a limited area of operation.
- Frequently makes decisions of both minor and major importance, which may affect the work operations of other employees and/or clientele to a moderate degree.
- Completes some moderately repetitive tasks.
- Uses noncomplex and complex machines and equipment.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field (required).
- One to five years of relevant experience in accounting, finance, or a related field (preferred).
- Intermediate: ERP system experience, JD Edwards E-1 experience (preferred).
- Intermediate: Microsoft Office suite (required)
- Intermediate: Business Intelligence or similar power business reporting tools (preferred).
- Intermediate: Data Analytics, Power BI, SQL/ODS (preferred)