Accounting Management Development

For more than 100 years, Purina has been revolutionizing pet food production, and its ability to enrich the lives of pets everywhere. By 1956, we began mastering new production techniques and literally reshaped pet care, introducing Dog Chow® as the first extruded dry food. We’re still at it today, with Tidy Cats®, the lightweight cat litter champion of the world and the leader in our category.

As an Accounting Management Trainee, you’ll be immersed in a highly technical and quality-driven production environment to ensure we have the appropriate materials, inventories and compliance levels to achieve continuous improvement and manufacturing excellence. Through a well-designed rotation of our various factory functions, you’ll learn our operations, how they apply to accounting and how accounting interacts with other factory functions, such as production, engineering, quality assurance, supply chain, finance and human resources. Collaborating with your accounting mentor is essential to this role, as they will help you leverage your new business knowledge to execute and enhance the factory’s inventory and audit processes. Following the program, you’ll have the opportunity to continue your leadership and functional development as an Accounting Assistant at one of our 20 production facilities that are spread across the U.S.

* Produce accurate and timely departmental training reports * Develop a working knowledge of our Inventory Control computer systems * Participate in periodic inventories of raw materials and finished goods * Perform month-end closing functions and analysis letters * Participate in management meetings and functions * Conduct audits or compliance testing of internal controls

**Education:** * Bachelor's degree in Accounting or expected to attain by June 2017 * Minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA **Experience:** * Must be conscientious with high cognitive ability and possess initiative, responsibility, leadership potential and a strong work ethic. * Must be willing to relocate to a Nestlé Purina location upon completion of the program **Pluses:** Military experience; prior co-op or practicum experience; manufacturing experience; student organization or other leadership experience