Job Description
Controller West Food Division
Understand business unit’s operational cost drivers (fixed and variable) to provide financial input/guidance to the leadership team
Provide monthly bridge reviews and analysis of current month results to finance team and client's operational leadership team
Calculate and provide forward looking forecast to include a gap closing plan if necessary to finance team and client's operational leadership team
Provide financial leadership to client's operational team
Be local expert on client contractual financial agreement, fee allocation calculations and allocation tables, and billing execution to ensure compliance with client and contract requirements
Provide site level financial support to client's operations (to include reporting, financial variances, and cost expectations)
Attend month close mid-month and month close meetings with GL accounting team and operations teams
Review financial performance with unit managers/leaders and their leadership (through KAM level) for your client at least mid-month and month close time frames
Ensure unit managers are prepared at GL accounting mid-month and month close meetings to speak to variances, drivers, outstanding issues, and any needed alterations to current financial entries
Be prepared to focus GL accounting mid-month and month close meetings on major drivers and variances for client's BUs and lead direction of meeting if required in order to meet attendees timeline
Assist in preparation of monthly business review presentations and QBR so KAM can present and speak to the financials
Conduct evaluations for cost reduction opportunities with site level variance reviews
Assist operations with the budget, estimate and forecasting processes, including preparing operations to present their budget to leadership and through data entry into ERP
Provide GL accounting team any Month close journal entry, transactions, and transfer requests, including request for amortizations, PO reversals, coding validations or changes, and out of balance related journal entries/corrections, etc for the client
When bookkeeping and purchasing resource are available support transition of the following activities, until that time execute the activities
Sales recognition/entry in UAS and batching in UAS
Certify expense processing
Net Menu Invoices entry
PO creation and invoice processing in Inspryrus
Labor Hour transfer entry
Support Client Billing and Cash Collection
Create Client PO for any "above base" activity in Mobility
Verify and review bill provided by billing team to ensure PO matches, address and format are acceptable
Upload client bill in Coupa, after bill preview and operations monthly activity review email provided and approved by client
Verifying and maintain awareness of status of payments (AR)
Attend AR collection meetings and reviews, providing payment status updates to the AR team when needed
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Controller West Food Division position is now open for candidates interested in the Accountant Jobs sector. This role in Los Angeles offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Accountant Jobs is a plus.
