Job Description
Leprino Foods' history dates to over 65 years ago, when the Leprino family first started making small batches of mozzarella for local markets and eateries in Denver. We've grown a bit since then. Today, we are the largest manufacturer of mozzarella and lactose in the world, and a leading producer of whey protein. Still owned by the Leprino family, we've set our sights to become the "World's Best Dairy Food and Ingredient Company." To help us achieve that ambitious vision, we're looking for our secret ingredient: motivated individuals who are the absolute best at what they do. From three people in a small cheese shop in the early 1950s, we have grown to over 4,300 employees throughout our 16 global locations. Will you join us on our journey?
We are seeking a dynamic Accounting and Payroll Specialist to join our accounting team.
Overview
This position will assist the Plant Controller and Accounting Supervisor in maintaining accurate and timely operational reporting and financial statements for the Tracy Plant; production information relative to the plant; and ensure company financial objectives are met.
Under general supervision performs analytical tasks and initiates an above average knowledge of office practices, specific experience or training.
Rate of Pay: $30.84 per hour
What we ask of you:
This role performs a wide variety of accounting and administrative tasks and analysis including:
- Supports the administration of local payroll duties for non-exempt payroll processes.
- Capital Project Invoice processing
- Performs inventory research and analyzes related data.
- Prepares and analyzes utility reporting for the plant.
- Prepares and analyzes yield and efficiency reporting for all production departments.
- Cross trains on all departmental roles and responsibilities, including accounts payable, payroll, and receptionist; and provides coverage during times of team member absence.
- Miscellaneous projects and tasks as assigned.
You Have (Minimum Qualifications):
- Two years of accounting experience, or equivalent higher education.
- Minimum of a high school diploma.
- Must be at least 18 years or older.
- Must be able to speak, read, write, and comprehend basic English language.
- Must be able to demonstrate skills competency by scoring a satisfactory score on the following assessments: Microsoft Word and Excel, accounting skills assessment to include accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and typing.
- Ability to type at least 35 WPM
- Must be able to perform essential job functions of position with or without reasonable accommodation.
You also Have the Following Knowledge, Skills & Competencies:
- Creative thinker with a process improvement mindset.
- The ability to effectively communicate with all levels of employees throughout the organization, as well as customers, vendors, and visitors.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to prioritize and multitask.
- Able to adapt to changes in the work environment, manage competing demands and the ability to manage through frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
We Offer You in Return:
A career with Leprino Foods means you'll be part of a worldwide family of individuals dedicated to producing high-quality products that help feed and nourish families around the world. Your contributions will be noticed and rewarded as you work to further our company, our customers, and one another. Apply today to learn more!
Leprino Foods celebrates and supports diversity. We believe in equal opportunity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. We know we are better together and are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive culture that leverages the unique talents, experiences, background, and perspectives of each individual employee.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Tracy, CA |
| Industry | Food and Beverage Production |
| Company Size | 2,500 to 4,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1950 |
| Website | http://www.leprinofoods.com/careers/ |
About Company
Overview We’re Leprino Foods Company – the leading producer of mozzarella cheese and related whey & lactose products in the USA. Our heritage of entrepreneurial growth & innovation, exceptional customer service, and top-quality products continue to define our business success and company culture every day. Our customers include leading pizza companies, consumer food manufacturers, and food distributors. Given our industry leading technology (we hold more patents on mozzarella cheese-making technology than any other producer), and quest for future growth, we’re expanding our international capabilities as well. Our Singapore hub and joint venture with Glanbia Cheese, UK positions us in key markets across the world.
From our headquarters in Denver to our production plants located across the country, our growth continues to provide exciting career opportunities. It’s our vision to become the world’s best dairy foods ingredients producer, and we’re looking for great people to help us get there. If you have a strong work ethic, a focus on providing excellent service to external and internal customers, an innovative spirit that’s not satisfied with status quo, and a passion for producing quality products and services, we’d be excited to have you join our organization.
Culture
Our unwavering commitment to product quality and unparalleled customer service encompasses simple principles that guide the efforts of every member of the Leprino Foods' team.
Quality
Service
Innovation
People
Perpetuating a fulfilling, challenging and safe work environment that encourages continuous improvement, provides equal opportunity, offers economic satisfaction through the recognition and rewarding of achievement, and ensures we maintain a healthy respect for our competitors, customers, suppliers and fellow employees in a clean and safe work environment.
Ethics
Conducting our affairs and nurturing our relationships with customers, suppliers, co-workers, mutual interest groups and others in a forthright and ethical manner.
Citizenship
Recognizing our responsibilities toward, and encouraging involvement in, our industry and local communities while respecting individual freedom of choice and maintaining the highest standards of environmental and regulatory compliance.
Benefits Click to learn more
Our Story Behind the superior quality and performance of our cheese lies the legacy of a man with a vision - to make the finest mozzarella cheese available anywhere.
Mike Leprino, Sr. arrived in America in 1914 with little more than fierce determination and a tough set of principles. In 1950 with the help of his family, Mike Leprino began making small batches of ricotta and mozzarella cheese for delivery to local grocery stores. An uncompromising commitment to product quality and customer service fueled demand for Leprino cheese.
Today the company he founded is the world's largest producer of mozzarella cheese and remains singularly focused upon making the finest cheese and whey products.
Results Through People
Environment
Our employees perform their best and feel considerable pride because they are active contributors to the continued success of the largest mozzarella maker in the world - and especially to the continued success of our customers. Employee teams propose and implement ideas to improve our products, service and technology, and track their success. In fact, our employees frequently surpass their own records when it comes to safety standards and innovative processes.
Culture
The culture of Leprino Foods Company is one of hard work, striving for excellence, high expectations and pride. To be successful requires high energy and passion, with a desire to take on challenges and do what it takes to keep Leprino Foods at the top of its industry. The hard work encountered here proves to be worthwhile when considering that we work for a market leader with great financial security and long-term stability. We are extremely committed to quality and to customer service.
At Leprino Foods, we believe:
Employees of Leprino Foods Company will agree that most positions and departments offer a high level of growth to the employees. This comes from both promotional advancement and personal growth opportunities. In addition, we offer an extensive list of training opportunities to all levels of employees. This can range from PC training and operator training all the way to leadership training and ways to further develop the competencies possessed by successful leaders.
Mission and Philosophies
Our mission and philosophy at Leprino Foods is to establish, through our actions, an unparalleled standard of excellence in people, products, and service while increasing our market share and perpetuating a healthy company that appropriately rewards all our efforts and investments. We believe that the health and longevity of our company can best be achieved through an uncompromising commitment by all of us to Leprino Quality as a way of life. Leprino Quality is exemplified by an attitude of continuous improvement in each of the following areas:
As an employee of Leprino Foods, you will have a chance to make a difference by joining one of the many Leprino Employee Involvement Teams and Task Forces.
We all benefit from these teams by having employees bring better problem solving, new ideas, and efficiencies to the Company. Team members benefit personally as well. Through involvement in one or more of these teams, members enhance their knowledge of Leprino’s operations and get the opportunity to work with people outside their normal contacts, doing tasks outside their normal scope of work. Team members also learn basic tools to help identify and work through problems – tools that will help them every day in their job and their personal life.
Community Involvement
Each of our locations has employees active in the communities they work and reside in. Leprino Foods is involved either by sponsorship, participating in, or donating to many worthwhile events.
College Recruiting Click to learn more
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
From our headquarters in Denver to our production plants located across the country, our growth continues to provide exciting career opportunities. It’s our vision to become the world’s best dairy foods ingredients producer, and we’re looking for great people to help us get there. If you have a strong work ethic, a focus on providing excellent service to external and internal customers, an innovative spirit that’s not satisfied with status quo, and a passion for producing quality products and services, we’d be excited to have you join our organization.
Culture
Our unwavering commitment to product quality and unparalleled customer service encompasses simple principles that guide the efforts of every member of the Leprino Foods' team.
Quality
Service
Innovation
People
Perpetuating a fulfilling, challenging and safe work environment that encourages continuous improvement, provides equal opportunity, offers economic satisfaction through the recognition and rewarding of achievement, and ensures we maintain a healthy respect for our competitors, customers, suppliers and fellow employees in a clean and safe work environment.
Ethics
Conducting our affairs and nurturing our relationships with customers, suppliers, co-workers, mutual interest groups and others in a forthright and ethical manner.
Citizenship
Recognizing our responsibilities toward, and encouraging involvement in, our industry and local communities while respecting individual freedom of choice and maintaining the highest standards of environmental and regulatory compliance.
Benefits Click to learn more
Our Story Behind the superior quality and performance of our cheese lies the legacy of a man with a vision - to make the finest mozzarella cheese available anywhere.
Mike Leprino, Sr. arrived in America in 1914 with little more than fierce determination and a tough set of principles. In 1950 with the help of his family, Mike Leprino began making small batches of ricotta and mozzarella cheese for delivery to local grocery stores. An uncompromising commitment to product quality and customer service fueled demand for Leprino cheese.
Today the company he founded is the world's largest producer of mozzarella cheese and remains singularly focused upon making the finest cheese and whey products.
Results Through People
Environment
Our employees perform their best and feel considerable pride because they are active contributors to the continued success of the largest mozzarella maker in the world - and especially to the continued success of our customers. Employee teams propose and implement ideas to improve our products, service and technology, and track their success. In fact, our employees frequently surpass their own records when it comes to safety standards and innovative processes.
Culture
The culture of Leprino Foods Company is one of hard work, striving for excellence, high expectations and pride. To be successful requires high energy and passion, with a desire to take on challenges and do what it takes to keep Leprino Foods at the top of its industry. The hard work encountered here proves to be worthwhile when considering that we work for a market leader with great financial security and long-term stability. We are extremely committed to quality and to customer service.
At Leprino Foods, we believe:
- Exceptional customer service is the attitude of caring among all our employees that motivates them to go beyond traditional boundaries in order to facilitate the realization of our Vision.
- Exceptional customer service involves serving others as each of us would like to be served.
- Exceptional customer service must be pro-active, not reactive. It means anticipating a customer’s needs.
- Exceptional customer service is not limited to external customers, it must also be extended to our internal customers, to fellow employees, to our suppliers, and to all other business contacts.
- Exceptional customer service takes everyone’s efforts. One employee with a lack of effort can create poor customer service.
- Exceptional customer service is fundamental to achieving our Vision. It is not a vision in and of itself.
Employees of Leprino Foods Company will agree that most positions and departments offer a high level of growth to the employees. This comes from both promotional advancement and personal growth opportunities. In addition, we offer an extensive list of training opportunities to all levels of employees. This can range from PC training and operator training all the way to leadership training and ways to further develop the competencies possessed by successful leaders.
Mission and Philosophies
Our mission and philosophy at Leprino Foods is to establish, through our actions, an unparalleled standard of excellence in people, products, and service while increasing our market share and perpetuating a healthy company that appropriately rewards all our efforts and investments. We believe that the health and longevity of our company can best be achieved through an uncompromising commitment by all of us to Leprino Quality as a way of life. Leprino Quality is exemplified by an attitude of continuous improvement in each of the following areas:
- Product Quality: Operating our facilities in a neat, clean, orderly, and well-maintained fashion while producing distinctively superior quality cheese and whey products that add value to our customers’ businesses.
- Customer Service: Perpetuating a proactive customer-centered attitude among all of us, which produces distinguished service in every aspect of our internal and external customer relationships.
- Leadership and Innovation: Breaking traditional barriers and constantly expanding the horizons of our industry through bold leadership in product and process technology which continues to create new standards of excellence in product value.
- People: Perpetuating a fulfilling and safe work environment that:
- Values the importance of clean, organized, and well-maintained facilities,
- Encourages the involvement of everyone in the business problem-solving, decision-making process, while not tolerating Company politics,
- Fosters a willingness to innovate and stretch personal and collective boundaries,
- Provides equal opportunity for personal and leadership development,
- Promotes company pride though an unselfish, teamwork-driven attitude among all of us,
- Offers economic satisfaction through the recognition and rewarding of individual and collective contributions, and
- Maintains a focus on safety in all aspects of our business.
- Ethics: Conducting our affairs and nurturing our relationships with customers, suppliers, co-workers, mutual interest groups and others in a forthright and ethical manner.
- Citizenship: Recognizing our responsibilities toward, and encouraging involvement in, the communities of which we are a part, while respecting individual freedom of choice, and maintaining the highest standard of environmental and regulatory compliance.
As an employee of Leprino Foods, you will have a chance to make a difference by joining one of the many Leprino Employee Involvement Teams and Task Forces.
We all benefit from these teams by having employees bring better problem solving, new ideas, and efficiencies to the Company. Team members benefit personally as well. Through involvement in one or more of these teams, members enhance their knowledge of Leprino’s operations and get the opportunity to work with people outside their normal contacts, doing tasks outside their normal scope of work. Team members also learn basic tools to help identify and work through problems – tools that will help them every day in their job and their personal life.
Community Involvement
Each of our locations has employees active in the communities they work and reside in. Leprino Foods is involved either by sponsorship, participating in, or donating to many worthwhile events.
College Recruiting Click to learn more
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Skills
- Accountingunmatched
- Accounts Payableunmatched
- Accounts Receivableunmatched
- Administrative Skillsunmatched
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Billingunmatched
- Capital Projectunmatched
- Change Managementunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Corporate Financeunmatched
- Data Analysisunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- English Languageunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Financial Reportingunmatched
- Financial Statementsunmatched
- Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
- High School Diplomaunmatched
- Higher Educationunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Wordunmatched
- Multitaskingunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Payroll Accountingunmatched
- Payroll Administrationunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Typingunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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