Finance & Cost Accounting Manager

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead and execute month-end and year-end financial closing activities.
• Oversee and manage the timely and accurate completion of financial closings, ensuring compliance with accounting standards. Perform seed inventory costing and master data control.
• Control seed inventory costing and review SAP master data, including Material Master, BOM, production versions, and recipes.
• Lead annual costing standards setting in SAP.
• Perform analysis on cost variance for rice seed manufacturing processes.
• Prepare and analyze business plans and forecasts.  Develop and analyze budgets, forecasts, and mid-term plans, providing insights on business performance with multi-dimensional reporting.
• Conduct detailed cost and profitability analysis from sales to marginal contribution to provide visibility on product performance to the management team on a timely basis and to optimize the product portfolio.
• Perform cross-functional collaboration for business optimization. Collaborate with production, manufacturing and finance teams to optimize rice seed inventory to control inventory obsolescence and to meet supply requirements.
• Standardize financial reporting and costing processes across the company while ensuring consistency and compliance.
• Drive continuous process improvements within the global accounting function, and enhance efficiency and alignment with company standards.
• Design and provide analytical reports, such as COGM/COGS/Yield Impact to senior management, and provide insights for informed decision-making and operational strategies.
• Review and control cost center expenditures to ensure accuracy, policy adherence, and identify opportunities for cost optimization, presenting findings to managers for action.
• Verify and approve the grower payments against seed inventory production based on the contracts with various growers along with the deductions and bonus computation in SAP.
• On-site work required. (May telecommute from home within the Houston, TX metropolitan statistical area (MSA ) up to two days per week.)

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

Four (4) years of experience as Cost Accounting Manager, Accounting Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, or Manager-Finance or a Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance and two (2) years of experience as Cost Accounting Manager,  Accounting Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, or Manager, Finance.

ALTERNATE REQUIREMENTS:

Master’s degree in Accounting or Finance and two (2) years of experience as Cost Accounting Manager,  Accounting Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, or Manager, Finance

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

• The required four (4) years of experience (with Bachelor’s degree) or two (2) years of experience (with Master’s degree) must have included cost accounting, the use of MS Office, SAP and COPA modules, and the development of annual manufacturing budgets, financial forecasts, mid-term (5 years) planning, inventory planning, and the implementation of cost control initiatives for production, manufacturing, and supply chain within the rice seed industry. Advanced level of proficiency in Excel required.
• Up to 10% domestic travel required.
• May telecommute from home within the Houston, TX metropolitan statistical area (MSA ) up to two days per week.
• Employer will accept as equivalent to a U.S. Bachelor’s degree a combination of diplomas, degrees or certificates determined to be equivalent to a U.S. Bachelor's degree by a professional credentials evaluation service.

RiceTec, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing qualified applicants consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable federal or state-protected classification.