Cost Accountant

Summary and Essential Duties / Responsibilities

• Coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle counts
• Update standard costs in the bill of materials
• Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies
• Validate the cost of goods sold as part of the month-end close
• Establish and maintain cost accounting policies and procedures
• Review routers and compare to BOM’s for discrepancies
• Perform analysis for materials costing, pricing and margin with the objective of guiding to operations managers, an understanding of their cost
• Support external audits in all areas of Accounting
• Perform in depth analysis of direct manufacturing and overhead cost with the objective of guiding to operations managers, an understanding of their cost
• Review and approve inventory purchases and process related inventory payables
• Complete implementation of current PCMRP system to achieve full system utilization including identification and documentation of related processes
• Participate in month end close process creating journal and balance sheet reconciliations
• Cross train with other team members on payable, receivables and payroll to ensure all positions have a trained backup
• Monthly Financial statement creation
• Participate in the budgeting process for sales and related cost management

Requirements

• 3+ years of accounting/finance experience in a manufacturing environment
• A BA/BS degree, CPA preferred
• Excellent analysis skills, and the ability to collaborate with a multi-department team
• MRP and manufacturing experience is required
• Intermediate to advance excel experience required
• Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude