As a leader and innovator in the snack food industry for over 50 years, J&J Snack Foods provides branded snack foods to foodservice and retail supermarket outlets across the U.S. Its products include such icons as SUPERPRETZEL, ICEE, and Dippin’ Dots along with other key brands like LUIGI’S Real Italian Ice, The Funnel Cake Factory Funnel Cakes, and Hola Churros. J&J also has a strong presence in bakery providing cakes, cookies, and pies to some of the largest grocery and convenience retailers in industry. Our company continues to deliver record sales led by a talented team and a commitment to “Fun Served Here”.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
- Manufacturing Accounting Process
- Independently manage and oversee daily manufacturing accounting processes.
- Review and validate production reporting, inventory backflushing, manufacturing entries, and related transactions in JD Edwards.
- Analyze production, material usage, labor, overhead, yield, scrap, and inventory variances.
- Investigate significant or unusual variances, determine root causes, and communicate findings and recommend corrective actions to Operations and the Plant Controller.
- Partner with Operations to improve the accuracy and timeliness of production reporting and manufacturing transactions.
- Monitor manufacturing accounting activities to ensure transactions are complete, properly supported, and recorded in the appropriate accounting period bill of material
- Lead the creation, review, and maintenance of bills of materials, routings, and related product-costing information.
- Review new and revised bills of materials for accuracy.
- Analyze the financial impact of formula changes, packaging changes, substitutions, new products, and process improvements.
- Support standard-cost updates, cost-roll activities, new product costing, and annual cost-setting processes.
- Monitor BOM accuracy and investigate material usage or cost variances that may indicate master-data or production-reporting issues.
- Month end closing responsibilities.
- Independently perform assigned month-end and year-end closing responsibilities in accordance with established deadlines.
- Prepare and post standard, recurring, and adjusting journal entries with complete and accurate supporting documentation.
- Prepare complex balance-sheet account reconciliations and resolve reconciling items promptly.
- Perform manufacturing account analysis and explain significant period-over-period, budget-to-actual, and standard-to-actual variances.
- Ensure expenses, receipts, inventory activity, accruals, and adjustments are recorded in the correct accounting period.
- Support the Plant Controller with financial statement review, closing schedules, management reporting, and audit requests.
- Inventory
- Provide accounting leadership for cycle counts, physical inventories, inventory reconciliations, and related control activities.
- Coordinate with Operations and Warehouse teams to promote accurate inventory reporting across raw materials, packaging, work-in-process, and finished goods.
- Independently research inventory discrepancies, identify root causes, and recommend appropriate adjustments or corrective actions.
- Prepare and process approved inventory adjustments supported by cycle-count results.
- Review negative inventory, unprocessed transactions, inventory movements, transfer activity, and other exceptions that may affect inventory accuracy.
- Review inventory adjustments and significant variances with the Plant Controller and Operations leadership.
- Responsible for food safety and quality.
- Other tasks as assigned.
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Disclaimer: This position description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the team member. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
EEO Statement: J&J Snack Foods Corp.is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discriminatory employment actions against, and treatment of, employees and applicants for employment based on actual or perceived Federal, State and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, national origin, ethnicity, alienage, religion or creed, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, genetic disposition or characteristics, disability or veteran's status, sex offenses, prior record of arrest or conviction, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking and unemployment status.
What We Do
J&J Snack Foods Corp. (NASDAQ: JJSF) is a leader and innovator in the snack food industry, providing nutritional and affordable branded niche snack foods and beverages to foodservice and retail supermarket outlets. Our portfolio of products include soft pretzels, frozen beverages, frozen juice treats and desserts, stuffed sandwiches, burritos, churros, fruit pies, funnel cakes, cookies and bakery goods under 25 assorted brand names. Manufactured and distributed nationwide, our principal products include SUPERPRETZEL, PRETZEL FILLERS and other soft pretzels, ICEE, SLUSH PUPPIE and ARCTIC BLAST frozen beverages, LUIGI’S Real Italian Ice, MINUTE MAID* frozen juice bars and ices, WHOLE FRUIT fruit bars, sorbet and organic juice tubes, , MARY B’S biscuits and dumplings, DADDY RAY’S fig and fruit bars, TIO PEPE’S and CALIFORNIA CHURROS churros, THE FUNNEL CAKE FACTORY funnel cakes, and several cookie brands within COUNTRY HOME BAKERS. For more information, please visit us at www.jjsnack.com. *MINUTE MAID is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company.
