What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Director - Manufacturing position at Ajinomoto Foods North America?
Job Description
Ajinomoto Foods North America is seeking a highly skilled Accounting Department Head to lead our accounting department. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial management, cost accounting, and ERP systems.
The Accounting Department Head will be responsible for direction and guidance of all plant accounting functions, ensuring compliance with corporate and GAAP guidelines. This individual will prepare financial reports, provide advice and assistance to management teams, and work closely with the General Manager and Senior Director Operations Finance to drive operational financial performance.
Key responsibilities of the Accounting Department Head include:
Ajinomoto Foods North America is seeking a highly skilled Accounting Department Head to lead our accounting department. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial management, cost accounting, and ERP systems.
The Accounting Department Head will be responsible for direction and guidance of all plant accounting functions, ensuring compliance with corporate and GAAP guidelines. This individual will prepare financial reports, provide advice and assistance to management teams, and work closely with the General Manager and Senior Director Operations Finance to drive operational financial performance.
Key responsibilities of the Accounting Department Head include:
- Leadership and Direction: Directs and has functional responsibility for accounting activities; provides technical guidance, leadership, and direction to direct reports and management staff regarding the financial management of the business.
- Policy Implementation: Oversees communication, implementation, and administration of accounting policies and procedures essential to the maintenance of adequate internal control of operations; implements internal systems to improve efficiency of operations.
- Budget Management: Prepares and administers department budget; exercises general direction over the preparation of the plants annual budgets and capital expenditure plans; monitors performance against budgeted targets; formulates and recommends specific courses of action to resolve problems areas.
- Financial Reporting: Directs the preparation and presentation of the plants financial information to the General Manager; ensures all data is accurately and uniformly recorded and reported to properly represent the plants financial position.
- Analysis and Recommendations: Conducts studies and analyses of internal financial data; interprets and reports to management significant events and practices having an impact on business operations.
- Strategic Planning: Participates in the formulation of short-term and long-range financial goals and objectives; analyzes financial aspects of strategies and plans and makes specific recommendations which will result in cost reductions and profit improvement.
- Compliance and Supervision: Supervises maintenance of ledgers, inventory records of raw materials, packaging, and finished goods and related accounting reports, files and documents; ensures all accounting functions are performed accurately and on a timely basis, in accordance with JSOX.
