Job Title:CostAccountant
Location: Terre Haute, IN(On-site)
Compensation: $85,000 to $107,000/Annum + Benefits + Relocation Assistance
Job Type: Full-time
Overview:
TheCostAccountantwill be responsible for helping the plant achieve its financial goals. This includes establishingcosting, the monthly close process, rolling forecasts,annual planning, inventory valuation, and internal controls.
Job Duties:
- Follows and supports all Company Safety policies and procedures
- Ensures proper accounting/financial procedures and computer application systems are configured and maintained as per company requirements.
- Understand and apply core accounting principles such as debits, credits, product allocations, and accruals.
- Manage and execute the monthly closing process.
- Report the financial figures (Balance Sheet, P/L and Cash Flow) detailing assets, liabilities, and capital to summarize and interpret the projected company financial position.
- Reviews, investigates, and reports deviations on the Budget / MTP monthly preparing the correspondent set of reports, including the financial portion of the company’s KPI’s and makes recommendations regarding possible actions on the reported deviations.
- Periodic comparisons of SAP moving average vs planned purchase prices, and revaluations as needed, for purchased component inventory items
- Develop standard costs for new products
- Calculate standard costs for all products annually.
- Analysis of activity rates, work center rates, and related efficiencies
- Participates in the planning cycle including rolling forecasts.
- Ability to develop a bottom-up approach to planning and work collaboratively with all areas.
- Analyze production routings and costs.
- Variance analysis in actual production costs vs planned.
- Participates in and/or leads cost reduction and process improvement activities.
- Maintains established housekeeping standards for responsible area
Qualifications:
- Analytical– work with complex information; Collects and researches data; Uses curiosity and experience to complement data.
- Problem Solving- Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions; Ask the questions needed to be successful.
- Communication- Must be able to interact with all team members. Ability to actively listen; to teach; and collaborate.
- Project Management– Ability to develop project plans; manages project team activities; and be an active team member on projects.
- Manufacturing mindset– Able to understand and have interest in manufacturing processes. How are things made? What are the key areas?
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelors’ degree required
- 3+ years’ of related experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
Computer and Technology Skills:
- SAP experience, especially with the FI, MM. and CO modules
- Microsoft office expertise, including creating presentations, consolidation of large sets of data, advance formula skills
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