Description
Trident Seafoods is the largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company in North America. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with primary seafood processing operations and fleet support in twelve Alaska communities. Trident’s global operations produce finished wild Alaska seafood products in 6 countries and its sales teams serve customers in over 50 countries. Trident employs approximately 9,000 people worldwide each year and partners with over 5,400 independent fishermen and crewmembers. Species harvested and processed by Trident include virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska. The global supply chain also includes cultured and wild species from a network of trusted sources worldwide.
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Summary:
The Controller – Manufacturing will have primary responsibility on operational financial accounting tasks and reporting for assigned Trident onshore seafood processing facilities in Alaska. The Controller will provide financial leadership for our operational teams and support continuous improvement and cost savings projects. This position is based in Trident Seafoods’ Support Center in Seattle, WA. with periodic travel to our Alaskan shore plants.
This hybrid position will be a combination of remote and onsite at the Trident Support Center office in Seattle, WA. Our hybrid work environment includes remote on Monday and Friday and in the Support Center on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provides financial decision support for onshore plant management, operational excellence teams, and other key stakeholders to support sound financial and operational decision making.
- Responsible for completion of accounting for assigned operations including production order settlement, spend review, accrual posting, and balance sheet reconciliation.
- Ensures accuracy of financial reports and integrity of labor and overhead cost allocations across our product forms through standard costing and variance issuance during our monthly close process.
- Conducts PPV analysis/issuance to inventory and COGS across all finished product forms.
- Monitors and analyzes trends in labor and overhead spending, production volume and mix, and material usage.
- Collaborates with operational leadership to complete annual labor and overhead budgets.
- Executes regulatory reporting, tax returns, and supports internal and external audit requests for assigned operations.
- Provides financial support and analysis on ad-hoc projects as assigned for strategic project initiatives and other business development opportunities.
- Supports engineering and operations with capital planning, including payback analysis on all capital expenditure proposals
Additional Responsibilities:
- Acquires knowledge of Trident’s Environmental and Safety Policies by completing required training programs and performing designated work activities in accordance with training and procedures/work instructions.
- Notifies designated personnel of any environmental or safety incidents or risks not previously documented, in accordance with Environmental Awareness and/or safety trainings.
Minimum Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in finance/accounting
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or related field; or equivalent combination of experience and education
- Ability to travel to Alaska up to 10% of the time for 1 to 2 weeks
- Previous experience in cost accounting and strong knowledge of cost accounting and standard cost principles
- Experience with ERP (SAP Preferred) cost and inventory accounting, overhead planning and reporting, and Power BI.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA, CPA, and/or CMA
- Food industry experience
- Strong Financial Analysis skills
- Experience in a standard costing environment
- Experience with SAP Controlling (CO), MM, EWM, and SCM functionality
- SAP Softproviding Meat (MSG) experience highly valued
- LEAN Manufacturing experience
This is salaried exempt position with an annualized salary range of $100,000 to $115,000.
Trident Seafoods offers a comprehensive and quality benefits package. Full time employees may be eligible for discretionary/performance-based incentives, medical, dental and vision insurance plans, optional HRA/HSA, telemedicine, employee assistance and wellness programs, long-term disability, basic life and AD&D, and 401(k) with a company match, vacation, sick time, 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave. For full-time employees, the initial vacation benefit starts at 10 days per year, adjusted commensurate with relevant experience, and 7 days of sick leave per year (9 in Seattle), accrued bi-weekly. Commuter and transit programs are also available.