Cost Accountant

We need to output HTML fragment with sections only if content present. Use

for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. Remove boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, etc. Also remove cookie/navigation/legal, duplicated lines, application instructions. Keep substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Key sections: - About the role: description of company and role? The posting includes intro about Sensaria, then "We are seeking a Cost Accountant...". That could be "About the role". Provide prose. - Responsibilities: list of duties under "Cost Accounting Essential Duties and Responsibilities". Provide bullet list. - Requirements: maybe education and formal training? Could be "Education And Formal Training". That could be under Requirements or Qualifications. We'll map: Education as Requirements? The instruction says use headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we need to decide which content goes where. We have: - About the role: company description and role mission. - Responsibilities: duties list. - Requirements: maybe "Education And Formal Training" plus maybe "Must reside and be authorized to work in the United States without Visa sponsorship." Also "Hybrid at our production facility in Morrisville." Could be part of About the role? But we can put under Requirements. - Qualifications: maybe "Knowledge, Skills, And Ability" and "Intellectual Demands". Could be Skills and Qualifications. - Skills: maybe "Strong analytical and problem-solving skills..." etc. - Benefits: listed. - Pay: Base Salary. - Schedule: not mentioned (hybrid but not schedule). No schedule info, so omit. We must not create sections with placeholder text. So if schedule not present, omit. We need to preserve all substantive info, not invent. Let's extract. Company description paragraph: "Sensaria is a leader in the Wall Decor and Print-On-Demand industry. We operate 8+ e-commerce storefronts, two business-to-business brands, in-house art creation, and coast-to-coast production facilities. Sensaria brings moments and art to life. We are proud to be a leading innovator in our industry, enabling more for customers - more products, more quality and speed. We are enthusiastic, we think bigger and work hard to unlock opportunity and achieve incredible results. Where most see a blank canvas, Sensaria sees infinite possibility. The chance to impact the senses and shape a moment in time, realizing a vision of design and decor that can reinvent, renew, and revive. With equal parts passion and operational excellence, Sensaria creates new ways to bring art and memories to life in any space. And through innovation, quality and speed, the company empowers unlimited growth potential for clientele. Enabling more for customers - more efficiency, more creativity, and more moments of inspiration, Sensaria thinks bigger and bolder to unlock opportunity and achieve incredible results together." Then: "We are seeking a Cost Accountant to join our team in Morrisville, NC and contribute to our ongoing success. This role is hybrid at our production facility in Morrisville. Must reside and be authorized to work in the United States without Visa sponsorship." Then "Position Mission As a member of the Cost Accounting team, the Cost Accountant will support the accuracy and integrity of product costing, inventory accounting, and manufacturing financial analysis across the organization. This role will analyze standard costs, inventory activity, manufacturing variances, and operational data to identify trends, discrepancies, and opportunities for improvement. The Cost Accountant will work collaboratively with the Operations Accounting Controller, Accounting team, and cross-functional partners to investigate issues, identify root causes, and support accurate financial reporting and effective business decisions. Success requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to work with complex datasets while understanding broader financial and operational impacts." Then "Who You’ll Work With Accounting, Supply Chain, Engineering, Logistics, Production, Warehouse, Operations, Finance, and IT teams." Then "Cost Accounting Essential Duties and Responsibilities" list. Then "Month End Close Support ..." Actually that's part of duties. Then "Process Improvement" etc. Then "Education And Formal Training" bullet. Then "Knowledge, Skills, And Ability" list. Then "Intellectual Demands" list. Then "Base Salary $98,000,00 - $108,000.00 plus annual bonus eligibility." Note formatting weird: $98,000,00 - $108,000.00 (typo). We'll keep as is. Then "Benefits Circle Graphics + Sensaria offers a competitive compensation package, which includes vacation days, sick days, paid holidays, paid maternity and paternity leave, paid floating holiday, along with Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, STD, LTD, Optional Life insurance, and opportunities for professional development." Then EEO etc to remove. We need to avoid duplication: there are duplicated lines like "Reconcile inventory and costing data across systems and supporting records." appears twice. We should keep only one instance? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplicated lines are part of posting; we could keep them but maybe we should deduplicate? The instruction says remove duplicated lines. So we should remove duplicate lines. Let's extract duties list items: From "Cost Accounting Essential Duties and Responsibilities": - Review, maintain, and analyze standard costs and related costing data. - Support the creation, review, and maintenance of bills of material (BOMs) and product costing structures. - Analyze purchase price, material usage, labor, overhead, volume, mix, and other manufacturing variances. - Investigate significant or unusual cost variances to identify root causes and communicate findings. - Analyze product costs, inventory activity, and manufacturing data to identify trends, exceptions, and costing issues. - Collaborate with operational teams to investigate root causes and improve the accuracy and reliability of costing information. - Support gross margin and product profitability analysis as needed. - Month End Close Support monthly inventory and cost accounting for close activities. - Review inventory transactions, balances, and adjustments for accuracy and reasonableness. - Prepare and record inventory and cost-related journal entries and adjustments within month-end close deadlines. - Reconcile inventory and costing data across systems and supporting records. - Explain variance and periodic costing analyses to identify discrepancies and explain significant findings. - Reconcile inventory and costing data across systems, reports, and supporting records. (duplicate) - Support monthly and year-end physical inventory counts, including investigation of significant count variances and external audit requests. We need to deduplicate: keep one "Reconcile inventory and costing data across systems and supporting records." The second duplicate "Reconcile inventory and costing data across systems, reports, and supporting records." is slightly different (adds reports). Might be considered distinct? It says "across systems, reports, and supporting records." vs "across systems and supporting records." They are not identical but similar. The instruction: remove duplicated lines. These are not exact duplicates but similar. Might keep both? Safer to keep both as they are not identical. However they are very similar; but we can keep both. Now "Process Improvement": - Identify data, system, control, and process issues affecting inventory and cost accounting accuracy, and recommend practical improvements. - Participate in cost accounting process improvement initiatives, including reporting, automation, ERP enhancements, and related testing and validation. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement agreed-upon process improvements and resolve recurring issues. - Develop and maintain clear documentation for cost accounting processes, controls, and analysis. Now "Education And Formal Training": - Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field. - 4+ years of accounting experience with experience in a manufacturing environment. - Working knowledge of cost accounting concepts, including standard costing, inventory accounting, bills of material, and manufacturing variances. - Experience working with ERP systems required; SAP B1 experience is strongly preferred. - Experience working with manufacturing inventory transactions, product costing, or backflush environments preferred. Now "Knowledge, Skills, And Ability": - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. - Advanced Excel skills with demonstrated experience analyzing and reconciling large datasets. - Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and the relationship between inventory activity, product costs, manufacturing operations, and financial results. - Strong attention to detail, professional curiosity, and sound judgment. - Have the ability to question, understand and/or resolve unusual results and prioritize issues based on materiality and business impact. - Ability to clearly communicate analytical findings and accounting issues to both financial and non-financial team members. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet established deadlines. - Ability to produce timely, accurate, reliable, and relevant financial information. - Proficiency across all Microsoft applications. Now "Intellectual Demands": - Ability to apply sound judgment and critical thinking when dealing with complex or ambiguous situations. - Ability to adapt to changing priorities and work effectively in a dynamic manufacturing environment. - Must be approachable, responsive, and able to work effectively with individuals across departments and organizational levels. Now Benefits list: we can bullet. Now Pay: Base Salary. Now Schedule: none. Now About the role: combine company description + role mission + who you'll work with? Might be too much but okay. We need to use

for prose,

• for lists. We must not include headings with empty content. Thus produce:

  About the role

  ... (company description + mission + who you'll work with)

  Responsibilities

  ...

  Requirements

  Must reside and be authorized to work in the United States without Visa sponsorship. Hybrid role at production facility in Morrisville, NC.

  Qualifications

  Education And Formal Training list

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  . But we have separate headings for Requirements and Qualifications. We'll put education under Qualifications? Actually typical: Requirements = education/experience; Qualifications = skills/abilities. But we have both. Let's assign: - Requirements: Education And Formal Training (bullet list) - Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills, And Ability + Intellectual Demands (maybe combine under Qualifications? but we have Skills heading separate.) We also have Skills heading. So we could put Knowledge, Skills, And Ability under Skills, and Intellectual Demands under Qualifications? Or we could put Skills under Skills, and Qualifications under Qualifications (maybe Intellectual Demands). Let's decide: Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, Advanced Excel skills, etc. That's clearly skills. Qualifications: Intellectual Demands (ability to apply sound judgment, adapt, approachable). Could also include "Who You’ll Work With" but that's not qualification. Thus:

  Skills

  (knowledge, skills, ability list)

  Qualifications

  (intellectual demands list)
  But we also need Requirements heading for education/experience. Thus:

  Requirements

  (education and formal training list)
  Now Benefits:

  Benefits

  (list)
  Pay:

  Pay

  Base Salary $98,000,00 - $108,000.00 plus annual bonus eligibility.

  Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: "Who You’ll Work With Accounting, Supply Chain, Engineering, Logistics, Production, Warehouse, Operations, Finance, and IT teams." This is substantive; we could include under About the role as a sentence. Also "Position Mission ..." we included in About the role. Now ensure we removed boilerplate: EEO, equal opportunity, etc. Now produce HTML fragment. Check for any leftover duplicated lines: we kept both reconcile lines. Now format. Let's craft About the role paragraph: Combine: Sensaria is a leader in