What are the responsibilities and job description for the SENIOR ACCOUNTANT position at Berry Global, Inc?
Overview
Berry Global, headquartered in Evansville, Indiana, is committed to its mission of ‘Always Advancing to Protect What’s Important.’ With $13 billion in revenue for fiscal year 2019 on a combined pro forma basis from operations, Berry is a leading global supplier of a broad range of innovative nonwoven, flexible, and rigid products used every day within consumer and industrial end markets. Berry operates over 290 manufacturing facilities worldwide, on six continents, and employs over 48,000 individuals.
At Berry, we pursue excellence in all that we do and are always advancing to improve the way we work along with the products and services we provide. Our culture fosters trust and partnerships through appreciation, acknowledgement, and inclusion. At Berry, we are continuously improving to support our mission and exemplify our values of partnerships, excellence, growth, and safety. To learn more about Berry, visit berryglobal.com
Responsibilities
- Develop proper controls over purchasing, receiving, issuance and shipping to ensure proper inventory accuracy and control.
- Work with the Materials and Production Departments, to ensure they have proper controls to ensure inventory accuracy. Audit the Materials and Production Departments, to ensure proper procedures and controls are being followed.
- Review Bill of Materials for accuracy; and, roll and update standard cost for any make items, when applicable.
- Keep records of Production Trail Activity and prepare journal entries, to book the cost to Marketing and Sales.
- Prepare monthly journal entries to book over/ under absorbed labor and overhead, as well as other miscellaneous entries.
- Review monthly Plant overhead and reclass expenses, when needed.
- Compile an estimate of material efficiencies, from production data and prepare film cost estimates to be used in weekly forecast.
- Review the Uninvoiced Receipts and Accrual Reconciliation Reports; and, make needed corrections to clear aged items or determine that an aged item should be written off.
- Work with the Materials Manager to ensure all locations are properly counted for the Quarterly Cycle Counts.
- Responsible for providing Weekly Forecast, Standard to Actual, MUV and PPV estimates.
- Assist Controller with the preparation of the annual budgets. Responsible for establishing standard costs and variable/ fixed overhead budgets.
- Assist OHTN with annual physical inventory process.
- Prepares special cost analysis, as requested for new and existing products for Nashville TN, McAlester OK and Augusta KY.
- Provide support to Marketing by providing cost studies for new and updated products for the Nashville TN, McAlester OK and Augusta KY operations.
- Onsite position with 25% Travel required to the McAlester, OK and Augusta, KY facilities, to ensure a thorough understanding of each location’s operations and costs.
Qualifications
- Education: BS/BA degree required, preferably in the Accounting discipline.
- Experience: 5 to 7 years of experience working in a manufacturing facility in an Accounting role
- Physical/Cognitive Requirements: Work is performed in an office environment with frequent contact with others. Requires prolonged sitting and frequent bending, stooping and stretching, manual dexterity, occasional lifting, and the use of office equipment. Strong knowledge of Excel, Word and database application (i.e. JDE). Significant understanding of manufacturing cost accounting and some exposure to ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems. Excellent communication, analytical and problem-solving skills.
