Cost Accountant

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyze, process, maintain, and report transactions primarily involving fixed assets, inventory, general ledger, and machine costing.
• Plan, study, and collect data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases, inventory, and labor.
• Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles.
• Analyze actual manufacturing costs and prepare periodic reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs.
• Cook up and coordinate, process, and analyze production data monthly from ERP SAP system.
• Support person to assist planners with closing production orders.
• Develop reporting machine costs quarterly cadence.
• Work with Engineering/Product Management/Purchasing cost development new machines.
• Manage Automation projects book/reconcile revenue recognition based on validation costs monthly.
• Set up/maintain internal projects for new product initiatives.
• Provide support Engineering to ensure labor hours are being booked to projects consistently and timely.
• Calculate, enter, and post transactions to the SAP General Ledger.
• Provide supporting schedules, reconciliations, and roll forward worksheets for various General Ledger Accounts.
• Accounting cross functional team member for item master additions/changes.
• Auxiliary in the audit/reconciliation of the physical inventory with Operations.
• Assists with related special projects, as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and/or Accounting.
• Experience with SAP.
• Team player willing to assist others to work through issues to resolution.
• 3-5 years related experience in cost accounting.
• CMA designation desired.
• MBA a plus.
• Detail-oriented.
• Strong computer proficiency.
• Knowledge or experience in SAP is a plus, required to have working experience with MS Office (Excel).
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task.