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Datacor is the leading provider of ERP, CRM, Asset Tracking, Simulation and Formulation software solutions to the process manufacturing space, particularly animal nutrition and feed milling. The company helps customers use data as a competitive advantage to make products more safely, cost-effectively, and efficiently.
As a Senior Implementation Specialist on the Animal Nutrition team, you will lead customers through configuration, validation, and go-live of Datacor's feed mill and formulation software with a particular focus on the accounting foundation. Feed mill ERP success depends on proper accounting setup: inventory valuation, cost roll-ups, batch costing, general ledger mapping, and clean posting into Dynamics GP, cloud accounting, or other accounting packages. This role requires someone with hands-on month-close experience, inventory sub-ledger reconciliation, and the ability to communicate with controllers and financial leadership.
Key responsibilities include:
**Implementation Delivery:** Lead installation, configuration, testing, training, and go-live support for Datacor Animal Nutrition products at customer sites and remotely. Partner with Delivery Managers to execute project plans, hit milestones, and manage scope across concurrent implementations. Analyze customer business processes and consult on best practices for system configuration, workflow design, and process optimization. Support cutover, go-live, and hypercare including opening-balance loads, cutover inventory counts, and first-close support.
**Accounting Configuration & Financial Integrity:** Design and configure the accounting foundation of each implementation including chart of accounts mapping, GL posting accounts, account segmentation, and integration setup between mill operations and the financial system. Configure and validate inventory costing methodology (standard, average, FIFO/LIFO), cost roll-ups, variance accounts, and work-in-process treatment for batch manufacturing. Set up and test AR, AP, and GL integration points between Feed Mill Manager / Pennent Mill Manager and accounting systems, including batch posting, distribution accuracy, and error handling. Validate that manufacturing, shipping, receiving, and billing transactions produce correct financial results, and lead reconciliation of sub-ledgers to the general ledger during parallel testing. Advise on pricing, contract, freight, discount, and tax configuration and their downstream accounting impact.
**Training, Documentation & Team Contribution:** Deliver end-user and administrator training across operational and financial workflows, tailored to mill operators, office staff, controllers, and executives. Develop and maintain training documentation, user guides, configuration workbooks, and internal knowledge base materials. Troubleshoot configuration, process, and data-related issues with clear, timely customer communication. Contribute implementation insights and lessons learned back to the delivery and support teams. Manage multiple engagements simultaneously while completing administrative responsibilities accurately and on time.
This is a remote position that requires periodic travel to customer sites.
**Requirements:**
Required:
- 5+ years of hands-on accounting experience such as staff/senior accountant, cost accountant, assistant controller, or controller
- Demonstrated depth in one or more of: inventory accounting and valuation, cost accounting in a manufacturing environment, general ledger management, or AR/AP operations
- 3+ years of ERP experience as an end user, implementation consultant, or both, including at least one full-cycle implementation or major system conversion
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience
- Strong understanding of how operational transactions (production, inventory movement, shipping, receiving, billing) translate into financial entries
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to explain financial and technical concepts clearly to both plant-floor and executive audiences
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills
- Proven ability to manage time effectively and work independently in a remote environment
- Willingness and ability to travel to customer sites as required
Preferred:
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics GP, particularly the Financials, Inventory, Purchasing, and Sales Order Processing modules
- Background in agriculture, feed milling, food manufacturing, or another process/batch manufacturing environment
- Experience with Datacor Animal Nutrition products (Feed Mill Manager, Pennent Mill Manager, Brill, ARA, Feed Tags)
- Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server and the ability to write or read basic SQL for data validation and reconciliation
- Experience with data migration, opening balance conversion, or parallel testing during a system cutover
- CPA, CMA, or equivalent certification
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite, especially advanced Excel
- Proficiency with AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT
