Plant Accountant

Headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois, with plants strategically located across the USA, Novipax is safeguarding the future by partnering with fresh protein and produce processors, grocery retailers, foodservice providers, packaging distributors, and healthcare providers to deliver absorbent solutions that protect packaged fresh food and healthcare professionals and patients. Novipax manufactures a suite of category-leading absorbents, including Dri-Loc, Pad-Loc, Multi-Loc and Prep Pads, and the revolutionary active absorbents Dri-Loc XtendaPak and UltraZap XtendaPak.

We believe in Protecting the Things That Matter Most. This is a workplace where your team members have your back-and are pulling for you to succeed. Where family comes first and community counts. If there's one thing that defines the Novipax team, it's that we win together.

POSITION SUMMARY :

This role will support the plants in month-end close activities, and advanced and detailed analysis and reporting surrounding inventory, labor, and plant spend. In this role, the Plant Cost Accountant will partner with operational, engineering, and finance personnel to find and implement cost reduction opportunities and provide business leadership with cost analysis in support of business decisions.

This role is vital in ensuring that our cost structure remains competitive while supporting profitability and growth. The ideal candidate will have experience in cost accounting, budgeting, and process optimization in a manufacturing environment , or other relevant industry.

RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES :

• Represent Novipax values and deliver excellent service through each interaction
• Review and update standard cost system including the updating of rates and throughputs
• Collect and analyze operational cost data, including material, labor and overhead variances and plant cost and spending trends
• Detailed tracking and analysis of both cycle counting and routine physical inventory count process, reconciliation of the results and reporting to plant and executive leadership teams
• Prepare margin analysis and variance reports (product, customer, product group) and provide insight to plant and executive leadership teams regarding product line, customer profitability (both new and existing), volume and mix impacts on the business
• Partnership with Operations and other functions in understanding and driving improvements in production costs and inventory
• Prepare budgets and forecasts for product costs and inventory and provide variance analysis to those budgets
• Assist with product pricing process
• Maintain KPI's to track progress to established operating targets
• Partner with R&D to roll BOM costs as necessary
• Support and validate results for all productivity / cost savings projects
• Assist with sales forecast and SIOP planning
• Standard cost absorption testing
• Capital request management and asset tracking and summarization
• Perform account reconciliations

Preferred Experience and Competencies :

Novipax is successful because of the diversity of our talented Crew. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace individuals and what makes them, them. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment. We provide our employees with competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, opportunities for career development, and a balance. We encourage all individuals to apply for positions that fit their passions.

We thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.