Stratas Foods LLC is the leading supplier of fats and oils to the Foodservice, Food Ingredients and Retail Private Label markets in North America and is a producer of quality bulk and packaged dressings, mayonnaise and sauces. Stratas Foods was formed in October 2008 as a 50/50 joint venture between ACH Food Companies (ACH) and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM).

Manufacturing facilities are located in Dallas and Houston, TX; Decatur and Quincy, IL; Englewood, NJ; Fresno, CA; Nashville, TN; and Valdosta, GA. Corporate offices are located in Memphis, TN. We are committed to maintaining a progressive workplace by utilizing the ideas, skills and talents of all of our employees. We strive to make Stratas Foods a great place to work and are building a team capable of meeting our business goals.

This role will be responsible for supporting the core accounting responsibilities for the department. The role will review, analyze, and interpret various reports ensuring accuracy and timeliness of reports. This role will add value through detailed review of accounting information and partnering with the accounting team to provide meaningful analysis. A successful candidate is a team player who will continuously look for opportunities to make the team more efficient and effective, advocate best practices, develop, and maintain operating procedures, keep attention to detail and use problem-solving skills to find effective solutions.

• Run daily, weekly, and monthly reports to ensuring timely resolution of reconciling items involving inventory valuation, plant expenses, and other balance sheet accounts.
• Demonstrate proficiency in inventory, manufacturing, and accrual accounting procedures.
• Utilize the available ERP and export systems to obtain information needed in the research and reconciliation process.
• Develop/maintain reports to communicate financial and statistical information to the accounting team.
• Develop and maintain updated SOPs to support departmental tasks and processes.
• Demonstrate proficiency in the tools utilized by the department including Excel, Access and other office tools.
• Assist with internal and external audits by preparing client schedules and worksheets as needed.
• Other projects as requested by management to support the Finance department.

Competencies

Analytical - Collects and researches data focusing on detailed accuracy; Uses intuition and experience to complement data. Seeks answers to resolve issues, explain financial data or complete projects even it requires dealing with ambiguity.

Initiative – Self-motivated with the ability to make timely decisions without prompts; Supports and explains reasoning for decisions; Driven to complete tasks and asks for and offers help when needed. Challenges the status quo by identifying processes in need of improvement and suggesting ideas for corrective courses of action.

Oral and Written Communication - Speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations; Listens and gets clarification; Responds well to questions. Prepares and edits work for content, meaning, completeness, comprehension and spelling and grammar; Presents numerical data effectively; Able to read and interpret information.

Forward Thinking – Uses experience to develop routine and ad-hoc reporting to identify trends or variances and to support financial data.

Education: Associate degree in Accounting/Finance preferred. Associate in Supply Chain or Business with emphasis in accounting will be considered or equivalent education and experience.

Related Experience: 0 – 3 years of accounting related work or Manufacturing experience required. Experience involving supply chain and/or inventory analysis preferred.

Equipment/Software Skills: Excellent knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications. Advanced user of Excel (pivot tables, filters, look-up formulas) required. Knowledge of IBM and IBM AS400 systems, Access and/or Sequel preferred.

Physical: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands for extended periods of time in front of a computer monitor and use a computer keyboard and mouse.

Sensory: The employee will also occasionally stand and walk. Close vision needed for working on a computer for long lengths of time. Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos. Ability to write correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, management, and other employees of the organization. The noise level for this position is usually moderate.

Mental/Reasoning: This position requires a great deal of learning, reasoning, and analyzing of departmental databases and processes as well as the ability to analyze, interpret and manipulate financial data to ensure accruals are properly stated and accounts are properly reconciled.

Stratas Foods is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee in any manner prohibited by law, including but not limited to, on the basis of race or color, religion, gender, age, genetic information, national origin/ancestry, mental or physical disability, family status/marital status, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, and any other legally protected status.