Senior Accountant
Company: Land O'Lakes
Location: Saint Paul
Posted on: June 19, 2022
Job Description:
Join Land O'Lakes, Inc., and help us bring food from farmer to
fork, building vibrant communities along the way. We're a global,
Fortune 250 company and a farmer-owned cooperative, which means we
work for one another-not Wall Street. We're proud to rank a Top
Workplace. We offer:
- Competitive compensation and rewards
- Best-in-class healthcare for you and your family
- Powerful savings programs
- Training and career progressionSenior AccountantJoin our Animal
Nutrition (Purina) accounting team as a Senior Accountant. In this
role you will lead the accounting our third-party warehouse
locations. In addition, you will be responsible for performing
complex daily, weekly and monthly cost accounting tasks including
journal entries, account reconciliation, assisting external and
internal business partners with resolution of inventory issues and
costing and coaching and reviewing work of Staff Accountants.Your
primary responsibilities include:
- Evaluate, analyze, and resolve product costing to provide
accurate reporting
- Update standard costing to new calculated weighted average cost
based on weekly activity, and resolve and analyze weekly costing
variances
- Resolve daily third-party inventory discrepancies
- Evaluate and correct general ledger activity and balances to
ensure accurate gross margin reporting
- Assist key business partners on inquiries pertaining to product
cost set-up, sales and receiving corrections, freight issues, and
GL mapping
- Set up new locations in the general ledger and work with
business partners and IT to verify proper set-up and approvals
- Perform key inventory reserve analyses and prepare quarterly
inventory reporting package
- Reconcile in-transit inventory and third-party warehouse
inventory balance sheet accounts
- Provide training and review work of Staff AccountantsRequired
Education/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting required.
- 2-4 years experience in accounting; prior cost accounting
experience preferred.
- Proficient with ERP accounting applications (JD Edwards
desired) and Microsoft products, advanced excel
required.Competencies and other skills:
- Understanding of financial drivers in inventory and cost of
goods sold.
- Solid analytical skills to assess variances, trends and reserve
requirements.
- Willingness to work in a high teaming environment.
- Strong process design, system understanding, and project
implementation skills.
- Proven ability to build relationships with peers and internal
customers.Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)
M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce,
including pre- and post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant
to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its search
firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information
over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like
this, please do not provide the information being requested.Land
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application process, please contact the HR Solution Center at
844-LOL-HR4U (844-565-4748) M-F 8:00am-4:30pm CT.
Keywords: Land O'Lakes, St. Paul , Senior Accountant, Accounting, Auditing , Saint Paul, Minnesota
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