Job Description:
Under the direction of the Grower Accounting Supervisor, the Grower Accounting Technician is responsible for preparing various reports, payments, account reconciliation, and month-end close duties.
Compensation/Salary:
DOE
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Backup for daily KOI reports
- Verify daily raw product receipts for accuracy: verify weights, # totes received, average weights per tote, pallet, vendor, grower block and harvester, and tare weights
- Price out purchase orders according to contracts
- Enter harvesting and cooling charges as necessary
- Update the planting schedules on a weekly basis (assign lot numbers) and enter lots in the system
- Send updated planting schedules to harvesters and growers
- Report raw product receipts information to harvesters and growers daily
- Report to the Arizona Department of Ag and to the Leafy Green association and authorize payment
- Resolve any weight issues
- Liaise with growers and harvesters
- Maintains the master files in the system for crops and lots
- Reviews yield and yield roll up reports for accuracy
- Maintains and distributes a weekly pound report by grower
- Obtains and reviews payables statements from all growers at month end
- Purchase match all payments to growers in accounts payable
- Files daily receiving documents
- Prepare a monthly lb. report for the California Leafy Green Association and report to the Association by the 10th of the month.
- Code CA Leafy Green Numbers by commodity and voucher in the system
- Prepare a monthly cooling reclass report and prepare and enter a journal entry
- Prepare a monthly report of all incoming raw product pounds and cost/lb by commodity and type
- Maintain product varieties in True leaf Crop Cost Center
- Verify that all receiving from Previous day have block ID’s assigned to them.
- Maintain generic Famous P.O’s used for raw product receipts
- Create Salinas Valley/Imperial Valley/Yuma Pricing Sheets and distribute
- Create OP blocks from Outside purchases under True Leaf blocks.
- Process check run for grower payables
- Enter Freight Charges as necessary
- Conduct tare test for new containers
- Report Daily rejection (if any) to growers
Education:
- Associates degree in related field or minimum of 2 years’ experience in the agriculture industry
Skills:
- Bilingual/bi-literate (English/Spanish) required
- Famous software knowledge a plus
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and good working knowledge of other Microsoft Office software. Experience and proficiency in database software a plus
- Team player who will exceed assigned responsibilities and assist others to reach objectives
- Native intellectual curiosity and mental stamina
- Strong oral and written communication skills to deliver technical information in an easily understood manner across all departments