What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Accountant position at Darigold Brand?
Darigold is seeking a Cost Accountant to be a part of the cost accounting and operations finance team reporting to the Leader of Cost Accounting. The Cost Accountant is responsible for item set-ups including raw material and finished good costing, maintenance of monthly standard costs for all plants as well as assigned monthly close functions including journal entries, reconciliations, and reporting. Additionally, this role will support process improvement initiatives within the Cost Accounting Team.
What You Will Do
- Bill of material maintenance and analysis
- Manage new item setup and item maintenance
- Update and communicate standard cost changes on a regular
- Complete monthly cost accounting journal entries as
- Work closely with the Cost Accounting Team, Corporate Accounting Team, Operational Finance Teams, and Leader of Operational Accounting during month end close to identify and explain variances as needed.
- Understand each production plant process and plant finance team reporting to be a backup to plant finance teams as necessary.
- Partner with the plant finance teams to understand their plant operations as it relates to Cost Accounting tasks.
- Participate in the budgeting
- Develop new reporting and journal entries as
- Financial analysis as needed to support Costing related
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance
- 1-2 years cost accounting or equivalent experience
- Manufacturing or Dairy industry experience
Nice to Have’s
- Intermediate excel proficiency (creation of pivot tables, look up functions, troubleshoot formula errors)
- Possess a high level of initiative and
- Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and precision in all tasks
- Excellent ability to organize information, manages tasks and projects, and use available tools to effectively contribute to the organization.
- Excellent oral and written communication Conveys information clearly and effectively through both formal and informal documents.
- Ability to work well with others in a team
- Must be able to work on projects with minimal
- Ability to manage multiple projects
- Willing to work occasional evenings/weekend-day/holidays to meet accounting
- Ability to travel up to 30%
Benefits of Working at Darigold
We understand that as an employee, benefits that support you and your family in and out of work are important. We’re proud to offer eligible positions a competitive total rewards package – that includes:
- Employer 401K contribution of up to 9%
- Comprehensive medical, dental & vision benefits
- Employer paid life & disability coverage.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- 8 weeks paid parental leave.
- Education assistance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible working arrangement where applies (up to 2 days/week after initial 90 days and approval by hiring manager and HR)
- Community giving through matching donations.
- Access to great dairy products & participation in our employee butter purchase program
- Annual compensation range: $66,638.00-$99,957.00 (individual wage based on previous experience, knowledge, and skills)
Our Commitment to Diversity
Achieving our vision to Lead Dairy Forward requires cultivating and supporting a team with varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are committed to providing a workplace based on mutual respect where all employees feel included and can bring their best and authentic selves to work every day. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, marital status, creed, religion, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. As a condition of employment applicants offered a role will be required to successfully pass our pre-employment background screen, receive a negative drug screen result & confirm eligibility to work in the U.S. We participate in E-Verify - please follow the links for details, English / Spanish & view our Right to Work Statement, English / Spanish.
Salary : $66,638 - $99,957
