Senior Accountant

Select Milk Producers is one of the nation's largest and most progressive dairy cooperatives, with 32 wholly owned subsidiaries, 12 processing plants, and 8 joint ventures including Fair Oaks Farms, Continental Dairy Facilities, Continental Dairy Facilities Southwest, Mill Haven Foods, Select Custom Solutions, GreenLink and Select Services. With over 1,000 employees, the Select Milk family of companies impacts all aspects of the dairy farm business and at the heart of our family of companies, is you.
"We strive to go above and beyond what's expected in providing for our families, leading our employees, caring for our land and animals, serving our customers, producing quality milk, and serving one another. This commitment is more than our business, it's in our culture and our character. We believe in being accountable, in doing what's right, in performing at our best, in setting a higher standard."
Select Milk Producers and its subsidiaries offer attractive compensation and a best-in-class benefits package that includes but is not limited to medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more that can be tailored for you and your family. Other benefits for eligible employees include 401(k) up to 6% company match, life and disability insurance, and paid holidays & vacation. We are proud to promote an equal employment opportunity workplace.
Position: Senior Accountant
Location: Dallas, TX (on-site)
Reporting Relationship: Controller (SMP Corporate)
FLSA: Salary, Exempt
Created/Revised: May 2024
Company Information
Select Milk Producers is one of the nation's largest and most progressive dairy cooperatives, with 110 family-owned dairies, 32 wholly owned subsidiaries, 12 processing plants, and eight joint ventures with other major food/beverage producers including Coca-Cola. Established in 1994, Select Milk Producers markets and processes milk from member dairies' in the Southwest and the upper Mid-West. Headquartered in Dallas, the company has earned a reputation for innovation in several areas including animal health, environmental stewardship, and overall business practices including new product development (see our popular "fairlife" product). With over 1,000 employees, Select Milk generated $3 billion in annual revenue and produced over 9.8 billion pounds of milk last year.
Position Overview
The Senior Accountant will share the responsibility of financial strategy, ensuring health and sustainability for day-to-day fiscal operations for Select Milk, LLC. Reporting to the Corporate Controller, the Senior Accountant will be responsible for preparing financial statements, general ledger account review, and serve as an expert for billing, accounting, and reporting. The Senior Accountant will seek to establish and monitor key performance areas while locating improvement opportunities.
Primary Responsibilities

• Participate in financial statement preparation and subsidiary ledger support systems to insure accurate and timely reporting.
• Provide advisement and timely, accurate analysis of financial reports and accounting issues.
• Provide recommendations and support for a system of internal controls.
• Review and allocate approved charges and fees via intercompany billings among entities for items such as software support and maintenance, management fees, accounting services, liability insurance and analytical services.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for all billing, collections, and producer payments.
• Review all accounting processes and procedures to develop more effective, efficient, and accurate methods of managing financial functions.
• Participate in financial budgeting and forecasting.
• Participate in daily cash management.
• Seek advisement when warranted from management, legal, accounting, or financial advisors.
• Responsible for accounting and consolidated financial reporting for non-Coop entities.
• Monitor changes in non-Coop entity ownership (administrated by 3rd party service provider).
• Ownership of lease accounting for all assigned entities.
• Oversee treasury management for all assigned entities.
• Responsible for all tax filings and financial audits.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Competencies & Characteristics Required
To effectively perform the duties this position, individuals must be able to demonstrate several competencies which include:

• Must be able to communicate clearly and professionally, both written and orally.
• Must possess strong organizational, planning, troubleshooting, and multi-tasking skills.
• Must be able to effectively gather, interpret and analyze information, and present findings in a resourceful manner.
• Must adhere to the ethical standards as established by the company and management team.
• Must manage confidential information appropriately.
• Must be energetic and focused on continuous improvement.
• Must observe deadlines and be conscientious regarding the quality of work.
• Must be accurate and thorough, and able to monitor work for quality.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree with an emphasis in accounting or finance required.
• 5+ years of accounting or similar experience required.
• Accounting system implementation experience preferred.
• SAP software experience or other business software of similar complexity required.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of Microsoft Office, proficient experience with Excel.

Minimum Requirements

• Must successfully complete a credit and background check.
• Must have proof of legal authorization to work in USA.

Physical Requirements

• May be required to sit or stand for extended periods of time and demonstrate manual dexterity while performing job duties.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk, see, and hear; use hands to handle objects, and reach with hands and arms.
• Must be able to concentrate for extended periods of time, paying attention to detail.
• Requires constant operation of standard office machines, including computer.
• Requires frequent ability to move freely about the office building.

Environment

• Environment involved is regularly inside the office.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Recruiters : We are not looking for outside recruiting firms to help us in this search. Thank you for understanding.
Additional Information
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of the work. This is not an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities. Employees are expected to perform duties assigned and directed by management, which may be modified when deemed appropriate by management.
Select Milk Producers and its subsidiaries offer an attractive compensation and a best-in-class benefits package that can be tailored for you and your family. We are proud to promote an equal employment opportunity workplace.