Cost Accountant/Master Data Specialist

Bel; Little Chute (WI); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bel Brands USA seeks a Finance professional at the Little Chute, WI facility to support daily accounting with a focus on fixed asset management and Master Data. Responsibilities include maintaining fixed asset details, depreciation, asset tagging, and asset cash flows; creating and updating master data for finished goods, raw materials, packaging and BOM in collaboration with Corporate Master Data.

This role interacts with Chicago management and uses SAP to generate KPIs and assist month-end

Qualifications

• Maintains fixed asset details and depreciation schedules
• Experience with Master Data handling for multiple brands
• Ability to generate financial KPI reports from SAP

Responsibilities

• Maintains fixed asset details in collaboration with maintenance, plant and management teams
• Initiates depreciation schedules
• Keeps track of asset inventory, tagging, and cash flows
• Prepares documentation for asset sale or disposal and assists auditors
• Supports month-end close and analyzes variances using SAP reports
• Creates and maintains master data for finished goods, raw materials, packaging, and BOM

Skills

SAP

Job description

You know our brands, The Laughing Cow, Babybel, Boursin, Kaukauna, Merkts and Price's, which elicit smiles across America. They are daring, responsible and deliver dairy goodness. As you imagine, this mindset is contagious! Bel Brands USA is part of an international family company, which has led an ambitious growth strategy for 150 years and is today the world's third largest branded cheese company. If like our 12,000 employees globally, you want to have an impact in an entrepreneurial and demanding company, and share smiles around the world, dare to live the Bel experience!

Be you. Be ambitious. Be Bel.

Bel Brands USA has been named Chicago's "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" for 10 years in a row. The company is headquartered in Chicago and operates four manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI; Brookings, SD; Traverse City, MI; and Nampa, ID.

Job Description Summary

This position is responsible for various support activities for the local Finance team, including daily accounting functions, with a focus on fixed asset management. It is also responsible for Master Data functions at the Little Chute Facility, including interacting with all Bel Brands locations and Bel Corporate Master Data Groups as pertains to Master Data for the United States.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Finance

• Maintains fixed asset details in collaboration with maintenance team, Plant management, Group management, and Chicago management
• Initiates schedules for depreciation when completed
• Keeps track of asset inventory and tagging of new assets
• Keeps track of fixed assets cash flows
• Creates proper documentation for sale or disposal of assets, including group transfer forms
• Provides all details of fixed assets activities to the auditors
• Prepares budget estimates for new fixed assets and fixed assets to be completed
• Maintains/updates inventory of fixed assets
• Supports finance function when Controller and/or Assistant Controller are out of office
• Participates in month-end closing tasks
• Runs reports from SAP to analyze data, update financial KPI’s and reviews variances
• All other duties as assigned

Master Data

• Creates and maintains master data for all finished goods, semi-finished goods, raw materials, packaging materials, consumable and trading goods
• Coordinates, gathers data and submits requests to Corporate Master Data Group for new item creation (Basic data and Classification data). Requires regular meetings and close working relationships with the Marketing Departments of the various brands
• Coordinates, tracks and shares information regarding the progress of the product setup with the appropriate people through the Marketing UDS form
• Works with production departments to create and maintain accurate Operational BOM