Accountant II

We are seeking a detail-oriented Accountant II to join our finance team at Meadow Gold Dairy in Las Vegas, NV. In this role, you will be responsible for performing complex accounting activities, maintaining ledger accounts, and preparing accurate and timely financial statements and reports. A key focus of this position is cost accounting, including analyzing manufacturing costs, monitoring variances, and providing monthly cost updates to support plant operations. You will help ensure strong financial controls, compliance with accounting policies, and reliable financial reporting. As a key member of the finance team, the Accountant II reports directly to the Plant Controller and plays an important role in supporting the plant’s financial performance and decision-making.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Ensures that all accounting entries are timely, accurate, and comply with generally accepted accounting principles.
• Assists in completing the monthly close process and ensuring balance sheet entries are reconciled, reviewed, and have appropriate supporting documentation. 
• Prepare and review other consolidated statements and various other accounting statements and reports.
• Responsible for setting up the standard costs for bill of material (BOM), maintenance and updating of items monthly.
• Performs monthly cost rolls for finished products manufactured and purchased along with cost change analysis.
• Assists in the preparation of the appropriate quarterly and annual reporting packages.
• Analyze financial reports and records, making recommendations relative to the accounting of reserves, assets, and expenditures.
• Analyze actual costs versus standard costs and prepares and presents reports of variances.
• Perform intercompany accounting procedures by calculating intercompany pricing, creating invoices for intercompany charges, and recording expenditures and product received.
• Update costs for Materials, Ingredients, Packaging (MIP) and Purchase for Resale (PFR) items.
• Prepares estimates of new or proposed product costs by working closely with procurement team and plant administration team.
• Compile cost data for preparation of operating budgets.
• Monthly accruals for milk and help drive process and improvements in WIP and FG inventory management including reducing waste in raw milk and finished goods.
• Perform variance analysis such as Purchase Price to Cost variance, cost revaluation, Invoice to PO price variances and work order variances.
• May support internal and external audits.
• Lead and oversee two accounting clerks by instructing, assigning, and monitoring cost and general accounting activities to support accurate financial reporting and plant operations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (preferred) in accounting, business, finance, or related field.
• A minimum of 2 years’ Accounting or finance related experience. Manufacturing experience is highly desired.
• Minimum of 1-year direct Standard Cost Accounting experience preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), balance sheet and income statement methods, internal controls, and other areas related to financial reporting requirements.
• Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint. Will work with various accounting systems, i.e. order to cash; extensive databases; accounts payable and financial reporting and research systems.
• Ability to analyze and solve problems. 
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.
• Ability to adapt to changing organizational and operational needs.
• Ability to work collaboratively with all departments, management levels within the company, and external stakeholders.
• Ability to travel up to 10% for meetings, training, etc.

An Equal Opportunity Employer