Plant Accountant | Newmarket | 5-Month Contract
Location: Newmarket, ON - Hybrid, 4 days onsite, Monday to Thursday, with some travel required to another plant
Duration: 5-month contract, with the possibility of extension
Hours: 35 hours per week
About the Opportunity:
Our client in the food manufacturing sector is seeking a Plant Accountant to support plant performance reporting, cost analysis and month-end accounting. Working closely with Finance and plant operations, you will analyze production results, investigate cost variances and explain what is driving business performance.
This role is ideal for a hands-on accounting professional with strong Excel and SAP skills who enjoys working with operational data and turning numbers into useful insights.
Key Responsibilities:
- Extract, organize and analyze SAP data in Excel to support plant reporting.
- Prepare daily and weekly plant performance reports covering costs, labour, yield and materials movement.
- Compare actual costs against standard costs, investigate variances and explain the key drivers.
- Support inventory controls, including cycle-count postings, inventory adjustments and investigation of discrepancies.
- Prepare journal entries, accruals and account reconciliations.
- Provide month-end accounting support for the plant and Agricultural Operations.
- Work closely with plant management to communicate financial results and identify opportunities to improve costs and performance.
- Support additional financial analysis and reporting as required.
Qualifications:
- Post-secondary education in finance, accounting or business.
- At least two years of relevant accounting or financial analysis experience in an ERP environment.
- Strong Excel proficiency, including Pivot Tables, macros and data manipulation.
- SAP experience strongly preferred, particularly extracting data and processing journal entries.
- Solid understanding of accruals, journal entries, account reconciliations and cost variance analysis.
- Manufacturing experience preferred; food manufacturing experience is an asset.
- Ability to explain financial results clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills and ability to work independently under tight deadlines.
If you are qualified and interested in this opportunity, please send your resume in Word format to Rabia Azeem at rabia.azeem@randstad.ca.
