East Division Controller

Purpose and Scope/General Summary: JBS Beef USA is seeking an East Division Controller to provide financial leadership and oversight over the four East Beef plants.

This role will lead the division’s plant finance organization, partner with operational leadership, and ensure accurate financial reporting and effective controls across the four East Beef plants. The East Division Controller will work closely with the West Division Controller to align accounting practices, reporting standards, controls, systems, and performance management across all eight U.S. Beef plants. This leader will translate financial results into actionable insights and drive continuous improvement throughout the division and the broader U.S. Beef business.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, develop, and support the finance and accounting teams serving the four East Beef plants, including plant controllers and their teams.
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting, forecasts, budgets, and management reporting across the division.
• Partner with the West Division Controller to establish and maintain consistent accounting practices, reporting standards, internal controls, systems, and performance measures across all eight U.S. Beef plants while addressing site-specific business needs.
• Oversee plant accounting functions, including inventory and cost accounting, cattle payables, invoicing, expense reporting, reconciliations, variance analysis, capital spending, and payback analysis.
• Ensure compliance with company accounting policies, internal controls, SOX requirements, and applicable regulatory standards; identify and remediate control gaps.
• Partner with operations, procurement, supply chain, and other cross-functional leaders to improve margins, manage working capital, control costs, and achieve targeted results.
• Evaluate capital requests and major initiatives, monitor returns against approved business cases, and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement through standardized processes, stronger systems and analytics, and effective sharing of best practices across the four East Beef plants and, in partnership with the West Division Controller, across all eight U.S. Beef plants.
• Support talent development and succession planning within plant finance, including coaching, performance expectations, and capability building.
• Travel among the four East Beef plants and other company locations as business needs require.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field required
• 10 or more years of progressive accounting experience, including leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing financial operations across multiple manufacturing sites or business units.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, and SOX compliance.
• Experience in meat processing, food manufacturing, or another complex manufacturing environment strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to translate financial information into business action.
• Advanced proficiency with enterprise financial systems, reporting tools, and Microsoft Excel.
• Can perform the functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation
• As a salaried position with the company, you may be required to travel at some point to other facilities, to attend Company events, or as a representative of the Company in other situations. Unless otherwise specified in this posting, the amount of travel may vary and the most qualified candidate must be willing and able to travel as business needs dictate.

The applicant who fills this position will be eligible for the following compensation and benefits:

• Benefits: Vision, Medical, and Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment;
• Paid Time Off: sick leave, vacation, and 6 company observed holidays;
• 401(k): company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule;
• Base salary range of $150,000 - $170,000;
• Incentive Pay: This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s annual bonus plan, the amount of bonus varies and is subject to the standard terms and conditions of the incentive program; and
• Career Development: Our company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through various learning and development programs.

The posted salary range represents the Company’s good faith estimate of the compensation that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this role at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, qualifications, tenure, internal equity, market data, and may vary accordingly.

This position does not have an application deadline. We will continue to recruit until the position has been filled. 

The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.

About us: JBS USA is a leading global food company providing diversified, high-quality products to customers in approximately 100 countries on six continents. Our team members and facilities in the United States allow us to offer a diverse portfolio of fresh, value added and branded beef, pork, chicken and prepared foods products. JBS USA is also the majority shareholder of Pilgrim’s, the largest poultry company in the world. JBS USA employs more than 72,000 team members in 31 United States and Canada. Our corporate office is located in beautiful Greeley, Colorado, where our 1,200 team members onsite enjoy more than 300 days of sunshine a year.

Our mission: To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders and the opportunity of a better future for all of our team members.

Our core values are: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, Sincerity

EOE, including disability/vets

Unsolicited Assistance: JBS and its companies do not accept unsolicited assistance from any recruitment vendors for any of our open jobs. All resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee at JBS and its companies or via the applicant tracking system, in any form without a valid written request and search agreement previously approved by HR, will be solely owned by JBS and its companies. No fees will be paid should the candidate be hired by JBS and its companies because of an unsolicited referral.