Associate Accountant
Posted on: 6 Feb 2021
Springdale, AR
Job Description
SUMMARY: This position will train under various Operational accounting positions in the Poultry and Prepared Foods segments to gain experience in Poultry Live Production Accounting and Poultry Plant Accounting or Prepared Foods Plant Accounting. The training includes nine months experience in Complex and/or Plant Accounting operations in one of our field locations (outside of Corporate) and will prepare the team member for an Accounting position within our Operations Accounting area, with financial closing and reporting responsibilities, supervisory responsibilities and an opportunity to learn the business from all aspects of operations. This position will require relocation.
REQUIREMENTS:
Education: Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance is required.
Experience: 6+ months work experience preferred, but not required.
Computer Skills: Requires standard computer skills including experience with Microsoft Office applications. (Excel, Word, PowerPoint). SAP experience will be a plus.
Communication Skills: Must have excellent written and verbal skills.
Special Skills: Self-starter with the ability to work independently or in a team environment; using good judgement to complete tasks; ability to set priorities and coordinate with others.
Supervisory: None
Travel: 1 plus trips per year.
Work Shift:
1ST SHIFT (United States of America)
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Tyson Foods
Springdale, AR
Tyson Foods, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food company worldwide. It operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Chicken, and Prepared Foods. The company processes live fed cattle and live market hogs; fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, as well as case ready beef and pork, and fully-cooked meats; and raises and processes chickens into fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken products.
It also supplies poultry breeding stock; sells allied products, such as hides and meats; and manufactures and markets frozen and refrigerated food products, including ready-to-eat sandwiches, flame-grilled hamburgers, Philly steaks, pepperoni, bacon, breakfast sausage, turkey, lunchmeat, hot dogs, flour and corn tortilla products, appetizers, snacks, prepared meals, ethnic foods, side dishes, meat dishes, breadsticks, and processed meats. The company offers its products primarily under the Tyson, Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright, Aidells, ibp, State Fair, Gallo Salame, and Golden Island brands.
It sells its products through its sales staff to grocery retailers, grocery wholesalers, meat distributors, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, industrial food processing companies, chain restaurants or their distributors, live markets, international export companies, and domestic distributors who serve restaurants and foodservice operations, such as plant and school cafeterias, convenience stores, hospitals, and other vendors, as well as through independent brokers and trading companies. The company has a collaboration with IdentiGEN Ltd. Tyson Foods, Inc. was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas.
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IndustryFood services/Restaurants
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No. of Employees121,000
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Website
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Jobs Posted4125
