Company Description Hollandia Dairy, Inc., a family-owned and operated company since 1950, produces, processes, and distributes award-winning, farm-fresh milk and dairy products to families across Southern California. The company is known for its commitment to quality, emphasizing the care and well-being of its cows to ensure exceptional products. Hollandia Dairy ships fresh, nutritious dairy items daily, maintaining high standards of taste and consistency. Team members join a stable, values-driven organization with deep roots in the community and a focus on responsible, sustainable operations.
Ideal Candidate Criteria: Responsible for being the financial liaison to our manufacturing facility. Owning standard costing, inventory valuation, and production variance analysis while serving as a trusted business partner to the Plant Director and Operations leadership. Assist with cost control and help improve plant performance.
Job Duties:
- Support monthly physical inventory counts and manages the cycle count program
- Work with the warehouse team to investigate and reconcile count variances back to book balances, identifying root causes and driving corrective actions
- Prepare journal entries related to inventory, manufacturing costs, operations accruals
- Reconcile balance sheet accounts related to inventory, production, and operational expenses
- Support monthly close activities and ensure timely and accurate financial reporting· Prepare and analyze plant KPIs including yield, waste/scrap, labor efficiency, downtime, throughout, and production costs.
- Act as a business partner to the Plant Director, monitoring plant operating expenses
- Work with the Director’s direct reports to identify cost-saving opportunities·
- Support budget and forecasting for plant operations, warehousing, and supply chain
- Maintain compliance with accounting policies, internal controls, and ensure transactions are in accordance with GAAP
- Support audit request related to inventory, manufacturing costs, and operational processes
- Collaborate with operations teams to improve processes, controls, and data accuracy
Skills Needed:
- Bachelor’s degree in: Accounting, Finance or related field
- required 3–7+ years of accounting experience, preferably in food and beverage manufacturing or consumer packaged goods
- Experience with cost accounting, inventory management, and manufacturing operations strongly preferred
- ERP experience in a manufacturing environment (SAP, Oracle, Dynamics, NetSuite, etc.) required
- Experience with BI/reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar preferred
- Strong understanding of cost accounting, inventory accounting, manufacturing variance, accrual accounting, internal controls, and GAAP
- Advanced Excel (pivot tables, xlookups, financial modeling)
Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop. The employee must regularly push, pull; lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: Typical office environment; low noise level, may be exposed to some noise in Plant. May be exposed to dust, gas, fumes or chemicals, may need use of special visual or auditory protective equipment.
Benefits:
- Excellent medical, dental, vision; free life insurance; various additional options to choose from
- Flexible Benefits account (FSA) for medical and dependent care
- Generous PTO (Paid Time Off) allowances and holiday pay
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- Advancement and growth opportunities
- Safety bonuses and raffles
- Employee assistance program