Brief Description:
This position is highly interactive with plant, purchasing, accounting and management staff throughout various locations within the company.
It offers a unique opportunity to do monthly accounting activities while also using analytical skills, research, and problem solving to be creative, work on system and accounting projects, and assist with the development and improvement of company inventory software and procedures.
Job Duties:
Verify accuracy and completeness of daily accounting activities at the plant including, but not limited to, inventory, shipping, invoicing, purchasing and accounts payable
Verify all material movements are documented and reconciled daily
Work with plant manager to ensure production data is reported accurately and timely
Assist controller and division controller with internal control compliance and identifying opportunities to improve processes and internal controls
Assist controller with month end accounting duties including, but not limited to, ensuring proper cut-off for invoicing, documenting revenue recognition, reconciling accounts payable, inventory and material cost of goods sold, journal entries, financial reporting and forecasting
Interact with various departments and SDI locations to assist in developing improvements to current inventory system and processes and helping implement those improvements at other locations within the company.
Required Skills:
4-year Accounting or Finance degree with at least two years of manufacturing accounting experience
CPA or eligible to sit for the exam
Experience performing and reconciling inventory counts
Experience with month end closings and reconciling general ledger accounts
Problem-solving and Strong Microsoft Excel skills
Ability to trace transactions through production and accounting systems and identify errors
Preferred Skills:
Active CPA designation
Experience developing inventory procedures
Experience developing reports to improve controls or automate processes
Fort Wayne, IN
Founded in 1993, Steel Dynamics, Inc. is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metals recyclers in the United States based on estimated annual steelmaking and metals recycling capability, with annual revenues of $8.8 billion in 2014, over 7,700 employees, and manufacturing facilities primarily located throughout the United States (including six steel mills, eight steel processing facilities, two iron production facilities, over 90 metals recycling locations and six steel fabrication plants).
We completed our largest acquisituion to date in September 2014. We purchased our sixth steel mill, located in Columbus, Mississippi. This acqusition increased SDI's production capacity by 40%. Our pro forma 2014 revenues were $10.4 billion.
Our reporting segments are comprised of our steel operations, metals recycling and ferrous resources, and fabrication.
Our steelmaking operations consist of mills, producing steel from steel scrap using electric arc furnaces, continuous casting, automated rolling mills, and downstream finishing facilities. This segment accounts for over 60% of the company’s external net sales. The steel products we manufacture include high quality sheet and long products, and are used in a wide variety of end markets, such as automotive, construction, manufacturing and energy.
Our metals recycling operation, OmniSource, is a wholly-owned subsidiary. OmniSource processes, transports, markets and brokers ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal. Additionally, our metals recycling operation offers consulting services, as well as provides customized scrap management services to industrial manufacturing companies throughout North America and Mexico. Primary end users of the ferrous scrap metal are domestic steel mills, including our own steelmaking facilities. Nonferrous scrap metal is used by a variety of specialty steel manufacturers, refineries and smelters, and producers of wire and cable.
New Millennium Building Systems, our fabrication operation, produces trusses, girders, steel joist and steel decking products, used in the building industry. Our customers include nonresidential steel fabricators, metal building companies, general construction contractors, developers, brokers and government entities.