Plant Accountant

Plant Accountant

Location : Hershey, PA

Work location : This is a fully on-site role located at the Reese manufacturing facility in Hershey, PA.

Department : Finance

Summary of Role : The Accountant's primary focus will be to understand and anticipate variance issues on the production lines. This role will lead the management of inventories, production analysis, profit plan development and promote the financial training of plant employees. The Accountant will be actively involved in providing support for plant financials and the accuracy reporting data. The individual will collaborate with many Plant disciplines and provide reporting and analysis under tight timelines.

Role Responsibilities :

• Support the Senior Plant Controller in developing, analyzing and reporting of weekly performance, monthly close, financial outlooks and the annual budget.
• Perform plant analytics and analysis on variances to enable the plant to address issue and improve performance.
• Collaborate with specific Business Unit Leads to highlight plant shortfalls and work on corrective processes to overcome them.
• Identify significant short term or long term deviations from standards to determine their root cause and steps needed to resolve issues.
• Utilize analytical models and statistics to gain insight on production trends, line mix, common costs and other key drivers of the plant financials.

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