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Ralcorp Holdings, Inc

Ralcorp, headquartered in St. Louis, MO, is the leading producer of a variety of value brand and store brand foods sold under the individual labels of various grocery, mass merchandise and drugstore retailers, and frozen bakery products sold to in-store bakeries, restaurants and other foodservice customers.  Through a recent merger with Post Foods, Ralcorp is now also a leading producer of branded cereals. Ralcorp's diversified product mix includes: ready-to-eat and hot cereals; nutritional and cereal bars; snack mixes, corn-based chips and corn snack products; crackers and cookies; snack nuts; chocolate candy; salad dressings; mayonnaise; peanut butter; jams and jellies; syrups; sauces; frozen griddle products; frozen biscuits and other frozen pre-baked products.

We have emerged as a solid and powerful organization focusing on newly energized and highly motivated teams.  Today we also emerge with a heightened commitment to expand our presence through new product development and through the acquisition of allied store brand businesses.  Through operations in over thirty plants within the United States and Canada we employ about 9,000 people with sales boasting of $4 billion. Every location offers an environment that values each of its employees!

Job Description

Analyze and communicate findings for:

· Frozen versus simulated cost and prior year versus current weighted average costs.
· Plant operating variances.
· Usage variances for ingredients and packaging.
· Customer and product sales results.
· Customer/Product P&L results
· Purchase price variances.
· Inventory valuation impacts.
· Freight costs
· “What-if” cost projects.

Set up, maintain, and insure the integrity of:

· All standard (frozen) costs in JDE.
· All simulated costs used for valuation; P&L’s, and analysis.
· The monthly X8 cost component calculation process.
· All historical monthly costs.

Inventory Valuation including:

· Run monthly inventory valuation reports.
· Review results and follow-up exceptions.
· Prepare average actual cost inventory valuation entry.
· Copy final inventory valuation costs to appropriate branch plants.

New Product Costings and What-if’s:

· Work with plants to gather necessary information to put together new product costs.
· Provide what-if costs by maintaining projected costs of materials, current/projected DME costs and running cost simulations.

Other:

· Play an integral part in preparation and loading of annual budgets.
· Run, validate, and distribute customer/product P&L’s.
· Other duties and projects as required.