Muldrow, OK - Plant Controller

Bachoco Group is a leading multiprotein producer and one of the top ten largest globally, with over 38,000 employees. We offer a wide range of products, including chicken, eggs, pork, beef, pet food, and more. Through Bachoco USA, we deliver high-quality chicken products to the U.S. market, serving retail, food service, and national accounts through our fully integrated operations, including farms, hatcheries, feed mills, and processing plants.

Join us and be part of our success!

Summary: The Plant Controller is responsible for directing and managing all financial and control functions of the Further Processing and Frozen Product Distribution Plant. This position ensures strict compliance with company policies, financial standards, and food industry regulations while supporting plant leadership in driving efficiency, cost control, and profitability. A key focus of this role is maintaining accurate financial oversight of frozen product processing, inventory, storage, and distribution, with particular attention to cold chain compliance and operational optimization.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Financial Management & Reporting

• Oversee the plant’s accounting, reporting, and financial analysis functions.
• Develop, monitor, and analyze annual budgets, forecasts, and variance reports.
• Ensure accurate cost accounting, including product costing, inventory valuation, and frozen product distribution expenses.
• Prepare and present timely financial statements and performance metrics to senior management.
• Monitor key cost drivers such as energy, refrigeration, transportation, and storage.

Controls & Compliance

• Establish and enforce internal controls to safeguard company assets.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP, company financial policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain strict adherence to food safety, USDA, FDA, and HACCP standards related to frozen product processing and distribution.
• Support and coordinate external and internal audits, ensuring timely corrective actions.

Operational Support & Process Improvement

• Partner with production and logistics leadership to identify efficiency opportunities and cost-saving initiatives.
• Provide financial insights to optimize cold storage utilization, distribution routes, and warehouse operations.
• Support capital investment decisions by preparing ROI analyses and feasibility studies.
• Track and analyze KPIs across production, warehousing, and frozen product distribution operations.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, mentor, and develop the plant’s finance and accounting team.
• Establish clear objectives, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations.
• Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and cross-functional collaboration and digitalization of live accounting functions.

Education and/or Experience                                                

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting.
• 5 years previous experience in financial management, ideally in food manufacturing, cold storage, or distribution.
• Strong knowledge of cost accounting, budgeting, and financial reporting.
• Hands-on experience with ERP systems and advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Familiarity with food safety and cold chain regulations is highly desirable.
•  Accounting, preferably in the Poultry industry

Supervisory Responsibilities: Manages a Production Accountant.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily in a fast-paced environment. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Language: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
• Mathematical: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.  Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Time management: Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Computer: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of accounting systems (SAP). Excel Worksheet management: use advanced Excel functions (e.g., VLOOKUP, pivot tables, formulas) to analyze and track data, generate reports, and ensure data integrity.
• Attention to detail: Strong ability to maintain accuracy and attention to detail.
• Confidentiality: Demonstrated ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.

*Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies: Please note that Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco USA.