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We are looking for a Plant Accountant to support financial and payroll operations at our manufacturing facility in Ohio. This role combines plant-level accounting, accounts payable, and hourly payroll administration while helping ensure accurate reporting, compliance, and timely month-end close activities. The ideal candidate brings strong attention to detail, sound analytical ability, and experience working across accounting and payroll processes in a fast-paced production environment.

Responsibilities:

• Manage day-to-day plant accounting activities, including invoice handling, payable processing, and support for routine financial transactions.
• Prepare month-end accrual details for outstanding liabilities and coordinate required information with the corporate finance team.
• Reconcile vendor statements, investigate unusual account activity, and resolve billing or payment issues with suppliers.
• Administer payroll and timekeeping for hourly employees, including overtime review, deductions, taxes, benefit-related updates, and backup payroll support as needed.
• Respond to questions related to wage garnishments, review contract labor timesheets for accuracy, and maintain employee schedules and supervisor assignments within the timekeeping system.
• Complete monthly sales and use tax filings and assist with standard close entries and other period-end accounting tasks.
• Analyze labor, material, and scrap variances against standards, then communicate findings and concerns to appropriate operational partners.
• Review non-capital plant requisitions for coding accuracy, track open purchase commitments and spending, and route requests to designated approvers.
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations, submit journal entry requests within established deadlines, and research budget-to-actual variances to identify root causes and correct miscoded expenses.
• Provide ad hoc financial analysis and contribute to annual budgeting and monthly forecasting efforts to support plant leadership decision-making.