What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Plant Controller, Finance Team Lead position at 1000 ConAgra Fds Packaged Fds LLC?
Job Summary
Reporting to the Plant Finance Manager, you will be a partner with the finance team to the Russellville Plant and Supply Chain Finance. You will perform complex financial analysis for assigned areas and present recommendations to management. Responsibilities include Finance, Cost Accounting, General Accounting, and Financial Systems. Be a leader to less experienced staff. Lead small teams and work well with small ad-hoc project teams across the plant.
Position Responsibilities
- Collaborate with others in the department on communication of weekly and monthly variances of labor, yield loss, materials usage, product costs, and overhead expense.
- Contribute to the monthly forecast and the annual financial planning process including preparation, recommendations and strategies
- You will contribute to month end close activities to ensure completion of assigned tasks, including identification and resolution of unusual items and issues promptly, review of variances, reporting and journal entry coordination.
- You will partner with Continuous Improvement and Operations teams to identify cost savings projects across the plants.
- Provide financial analysis for new projects and capital requests.
- Assist team with financial and internal control audits.
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis
Position Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business, accounting, finance, or related degree required.
- 5 years general business and financial experience
- Intermediate to Advanced Microsoft Excel skills (pivot tables, vlookups and other data manipulation formulas).
- Experience with SAP and data visualization tools.
- Experience forecasting business expenses.
- Experience identifying areas for continuous improvement and making recommendations for enhancement
- Experience consolidating complex information into usable customer oriented formats
- At this time, we require applicants for this role to be legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring employer sponsorship either now or in the future.
Number of Days in Office: 5
Relocation assistance is available for this position. Preference will be given to local candidates.
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Our Benefits:
We care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:
- Health: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement
- Wealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan
- Growth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement
- Balance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities
Our Company:
Conagra Brands is one of North America's leading branded food companies. We have a rich heritage of making great food, and a team that’s passionate about innovation and growth. Conagra offers choices for every occasion through iconic brands, such as Birds Eye®, Marie Callender's®, Banquet®, Healthy Choice®, Slim Jim®, Reddi-wip®, and Vlasic®, and emerging brands, including Angie's® BOOMCHICKAPOP®, Duke's®, Earth Balance®, Gardein®, and Frontera®.
We pride ourselves on having the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in the food industry. For more information, visit www.conagrabrands.com.
Conagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law.
