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We are on a mission to better equip the industry with software solutions and move it forward by building thoughtful, intuitive products that solve our customers’ most difficult problems.\nWe are passionate about serving our customers and helping them use data as a competitive advantage. Our customers make products that extend and sustain lives by sanitizing, fertilizing, beautifying, cleaning, and recycling the world we live in. We at Datacorhelp our customers make those products you use every day more safely, cost effectively and more efficiently through our technology platforms and applications.\nThe Role\nAs a Senior Implementation Specialist on the Animal Nutrition team, you will lead customers through the configuration, validation, and go-live of our feed mill and formulation software with a particular focus on getting the accounting side right.\nFeed mill ERP lives or dies on the accounting foundation beneath it: inventory valuation, cost roll-ups, batch costing, general ledger mapping, and clean posting into Dynamics GP,Cloud Accounting or other agnostic accounting packages. This role is for someone who has actually closed a month, reconciled an inventory sub-ledger to the GL, and can sit across the table from a controller and speak their language. This is a remote position that requires periodic travel to customer sites.\nKey Responsibilities\nImplementation Delivery\nLead installation, configuration, testing, training, and go-live support for Datacor Animal Nutrition products at customer sites and remotely.\nPartner with Delivery Managers to execute project plans, hit milestones, and manage scope across concurrent implementations.\nAnalyze customer business processes and consult on best practices for system configuration, workflow design, and process optimization.\nSupport cutover, go-live, and hypercare, including opening-balance loads, cutover inventory counts, and first-close support.\nAccounting Configuration & Financial Integrity\nDesign and configure the accounting foundation of each implementation: chart of accounts mapping, GL posting accounts, account segmentation, and integration setup between mill operations and the financial system.\nConfigure and validate inventory costing methodology (standard, average, FIFO/LIFO as applicable), cost roll-ups, variance accounts, and work-in-process treatment for batch manufacturing.\nSet 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.\nValidate that manufacturing, shipping, receiving, and billing transactions produce correct financial results, and lead reconciliation of sub-ledgers to the general ledger during parallel testing.\nAdvise on pricing, contract, freight, discount, and tax configuration and their downstream accounting impact.\nTraining, Documentation & Team Contribution\nDeliver end-user and administrator training across operational and financial workflows, tailored to mill operators, office staff, controllers, and executives.\nDevelop and maintain training documentation, user guides, configuration workbooks, and internal knowledge base materials.\nTroubleshoot configuration, process, and data-related issues with clear, timely customer communication.\nContribute implementation insights and lessons learned back to the delivery and support teams to improve methodology.\nManage multiple engagements simultaneously while completing administrative responsibilities time entry, status updates, taskray and recap documentation accurately and on time.\nQualifications\nRequired\n5+ years of hands-on accounting experience such as staff/senior accountant, cost accountant, assistant controller, or controller.\nDemonstrated depth in one or more of: inventory accounting and valuation, cost accounting in a manufacturing environment, general ledger management, or AR/AP operations.\n3+ years of ERP experience as an end user, implementation consultant, or both, including at least one full-cycle implementation or major system conversion.\nBachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.\nStrong understanding of how operational transactions, production, inventory movement, shipping, receiving, billing - 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