Accounting Manager

Job Title: Performance Accounting Manager

Location: Corporate

Department: Controllership

Reports To: Senior Manager, Performance Accounting

Direct Reports: 1

Travel: Up to 30%

Normal

Work Schedule:

The typical working hours are 7:30 am to 4:00 pm with a 30-minute lunch

Soules Foods is a thriving family-owned food company that has made a positive difference for its customers and consumers for nearly 50 years. Our purpose and promise of Great Food, Made Simple® drives us. Based in Tyler, Texas, the company is a leading national producer of ready-to-eat and ready-to- cook chicken and beef products and is the number one producer of chicken and beef fajitas in the USA.

We proudly serve a broad portfolio of great-tasting, high-quality products sold throughout the US via retail, food service distributors, and restaurants. Our wide array of national customers includes prominent organizations such as Walmart, Costco, Sam’s Club, Sysco, and HEB. The company was established in 1975 by John Soules Sr., and the business is now in the second generation of family leadership.

The organization has expanded dramatically over the past decade, and with its continued growth, it now has annual sales of approximately $1 billion. The company employs over 2,000 individuals and has three manufacturing facilities in Gainesville, Georgia;
Valley, Alabama; and its headquarters in Tyler, Texas.

The Performance Accounting Manager is the on-site finance business partner for an assigned group of plants. This role spends most of its time with plant leaders and on the production floor, understands what is driving cost and yield, challenges Operations on results, and helps drive corrective actions and savings. It owns plant-level inventory accuracy and cost visibility, connecting what happens on the floor to what shows up in the P&L.

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting (any other field? Finance or Business Administration)
• 5+ years of plant, cost or manufacturing accounting experience.
• 1+ years of experience supervising or leading others.
• Working knowledge of actual costing, manufacturing cost analysis, WIP and inventory accounting.
• Hands-on plant floor experience, able to read production reports, bill of materials and routings.
• ERP experience with manufacturing and costing modules.
• Advanced Excel skills and experience building operations reports from large data sets.

• Experience in food manufacturing, CPG or distribution, including yield, giveaway and shelf-life issues.
• Experience with BI tools, manufacturing execution or production reporting systems and automation or AI tools
• Lean, Six Sigma or continuous improvement exposure.

NOTE:

This description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may perform other related duties to meet the organization's ongoing needs; these duties are considered marginal.

• Work alongside plant managers and department heads daily; attend production and shift meetings and walk the floor regularly.
• Understand the drivers behind cost and yield on each line (downtime, changeovers, giveaway, rework, staffing, ingredient usage) and translate them into dollars.
• Challenge Operations when results miss expectations, and push for clear owners, actions, and dates.
• Bring issues forward while they can still be fixed, rather than explaining them after the month closes.

• Work with plant managers, engineering, and continuous improvement teams to identify and quantify savings in yield, waste, labor, and energy.
• Track corrective actions and cost-saving projects from estimate to realized savings.
• Prepare financial analysis for plant capital requests and post-completion reviews.
• Provi…