Controller

We're a leading Northeast family-owned food, agricultural products, and agricultural services organization headquartered in Pennsylvania. We provide animal nutrition and feeds; specialty protein production, processing, and marketing; on-farm protein production services; and grain, fertilizer, and ingredient procurement. Leidy's is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wenger Group since 2022. Leidy's is a 130-year-old pork company located on the family farm in Pennsylvania, where Jacob Leidy was deeded the original land grant by William Penn in 1753.

We're a stable company with strong core values, great benefits, competitive wage structure, and a safe and healthy work environment. With over 1000 team members, we're a growing company in an essential sector – agriculture!

Learn more here: https://www.thewengergroup.com   /  https://www.leidys.com

Basic Purpose

Responsible for directing Leidy’s  finance and accounting function, as well as providing hands-on financial support and advice to the Company.  Responsible for the financial accounting/reporting for Company in accordance with GAAP, and other regulatory and advisory organizations, as well as the FP&A function.  Provide leadership, prioritize, and assign responsibilities; train, monitor, mentor, and improve the performance of the finance and accounting staff.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities:

1.     Ensure the accuracy of existing product BOM’s and cost standards, and timely completion of BOM’s for new products resulting in accurate inventory and P&L reporting 

2.     Manage fixed asset accounting and tracking vs. budget; ensure capital approval process is followed appropriately

3.     Provide financial support and guidance for new capital projects 

4.     Participate in monthly and year-end financial closing process for the Company  

5.     Ensure accurate and timely monthly financial results, meeting deadlines assigned by The Wenger Group

6.     Analyze financial results vs. budget and prior year, and provide the leadership team with clear explanations on variances

7.     Recognize and communicate financial trends and offer potential solutions to senior leadership team to improve profitability

8.     Manage and oversee periodic physical inventories and reconciliation to the ERP system’s perpetual counts

9.     Manage general and daily accounting operations including accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash management, processing of general ledger journal entries and payroll.

10.  Implement and enforce financial reporting and accounting procedures and schedules

11.  Establish and maintain internal controls which verify the integrity of all systems, processes, reporting, and data

12.  Drive the annual operating and capital budgeting and planning process, administer and review all financial plans and budgets, and monitor progress and changes to keep the senior leadership team abreast of the Company’s financial status

13.  Manage periodic P&L reforecasting process

14.  Serve as accounting and finance lead on migration to new ERP system

15.  Manage the coordination and preparation of deliverables for the year-end external audit, and serve as main liaison with audit team on behalf of Company

16.  Respond to the VP of Finance as assigned with accurate and timely work to facilitate financial needs

17.  Perform special projects and other comparable and related duties as assigned 

Supervisory Responsibilities

Manage accounting and finance staff of approximately 7 employees, 5 of these employees will report to the Director of Finance Shared Services at The Wenger Group.  Carry out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.  

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

Ø  Bachelor’s degree in accounting, or finance with equivalent experience

Ø  Minimum of 5 years’ experience with demonstrated track record of financial accounting, standard costing, and FP&A experience, food/protein industry experience preferred 

Ø  Solid ERP system knowledge, Microsoft D365 preferred  

Ø  Excellent Excel and BI system/data manipulation experience required

Ø  Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate and relate to people at all levels of the organization 

Ø  Strong technical skills, analytical ability, good judgment, and strong operational focus 

Ø  Ability to manage and develop staff

Ø  Very organized and self-directed, able to successfully manage and execute multiple projects in a fast-paced environment 

Ø  Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and/or MBA preferred

Physical Demands

Sitting 80%                                 

Walking 10% 

Standing 10% 

Near acuity (clarity of vision at 20 inches or less)                                 

Speaking-ordinary speech 

Hearing-ordinary conversation                                                                        

Fingering-computer keyboard 

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