Sr. Accountant, Operations Finance

About Primient Primient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet.

We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.

The Sr. Accountant, Operations Finance plays a key role in supporting manufacturing operations by providing financial analysis, cost accounting expertise, and decision support to drive operational and financial performance. This position partners closely with the Sr. Plant Controller, Operations, Engineering, and cross-functional business leaders to ensure accurate financial reporting, effective cost management, and informed business decision-making. The role is responsible for coordinating and executing month-end close activities and management reporting, including providing detailed analysis of manufacturing performance and cost drivers.

The Sr. Accountant, Operations Finance also supports and coordinates development of monthly forecasts, annual budgeting, capital investment analysis, and long-term strategic business planning.

Key responsibilities: Sr. Accountant, Operations Finance

• Coordinate and execute the plant month-end close processes, including journal entries, accruals, account analysis, and management reporting, to ensure timely and accurate financial results
• Perform detailed variance analysis of actual results compared with operating plan and forecast; clearly explain price, usage, volume, efficiency, mix, and spending drivers to plant and corporate stakeholders
• Analyze manufacturing costs, including raw materials, labor, utilities, fixed costs, and production performance, to identify trends, unusual activity, and opportunities for operational improvement
• Support development of annual budgets, and monthly forecasts including analysis and variance explanations
• Maintain and validate standard costs, bills of materials and costing structures to ensure reliable product costing, inventory valuation, and manufacturing performance reporting
• Review financial analysis prepared by the plant for the small projects, especially ensuring capturing benefits and continuous improvement from capex
• Provide financial consulting on key strategic initiatives and priorities to help the organization stay focused on achieving their strategic goals
• Prepare financial capex analyses for major projects, ensuring alignment with business strategies, priorities, and financial requirements
• Support and help prepare capital strategic business plans (5-year plan)
• Support capital cash flow forecast for the Treasury team
• Support preparation of presentations for senior management team and assist Sr. Plant Controller with presentations to Operations Leadership, the Capital Engineering Team, COO and CFO
• Support any special project work throughout the Operations team
• Ad hoc analysis & other business requests - provide ad hoc reports and analysis as needed to support overall business

• BA/BS Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; MBA preferred
• 5 to 10 years of…