Cost Accounting Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage project, property, manufacturing work in process and service center accounting.
• Ensure the performance and productivity of employees under your supervision.
• Build and maintain a high-performance team, offering direction to meet organization objectives.
• Ensure employees are aware of and comply with Laboratory and Institutional policies, procedures, regulatory and prime contract requirements.
• Maintain a safe and focused environment.
• Hire, develop and retain a diverse, highly skilled staff, providing career coaching and personal growth opportunities.
• Cultivate effecting working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain adequate and effective internal controls to safeguard and properly record financial transactions.
• Develop and implement Strategic goals for the Group, promoting continuous improvement, best practices, and efficiency in cost accounting and reporting operations.
• Employ industry best practices to ensure success and compliance with the areas of responsibility.
• Support internal and external audits and reviews, regularly assessing and enhancing processes to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, or related discipline with a minimum of 9 years of related experience; Masters degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 7 years of related experience; or PhD in similar disciplines with a minimum of 5 years related experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of lead experience.
• Knowledge in the Accounting field with significant expertise in project cost accounting, cost allocations, integrated financial management systems and automated project cost systems discipline.
• Experience with ERP systems.
• Demonstrated experience in leading work groups and teams.
• Extensive understanding and wide application of advanced principles, theories, and concepts in accounting field of knowledge resulting in contributions to the development of new theories and methods.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex business system issues.
• Demonstrated communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate and/or work in a team environment and strong desire to manage in an organization dedicated to providing customer focused services.

Qualifications

• Has wide-ranging experience and advanced knowledge in one or more related fields of knowledge with Federal government requirements including those in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), NASA FAR, Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) Guidelines.
• Considered an expert in Accounting Theory within own organization.
• MBA or equivalent with 10 years of progressive experience including three years as a supervisor of a project/cost accounting organization.
• Experience resolving internal and external audit findings.
• Experience in dealing with post implementation system and business process improvement issues.

Skills

• Knowledge in the Accounting field with significant expertise in project cost accounting, cost allocations, integrated financial management systems and automated project cost systems discipline.
• Experience with ERP systems.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex business system issues.
• Demonstrated communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate and/or work in a team environment and strong desire to manage in an organization dedicated to providing customer focused services.

Benefits

JPL has a catalog of benefits and perks that span from the traditional to the unique. This includes a variety of health, dental, vision, wellbeing, and retirement plans, paid time off, learning, rideshare, childcare, flexible schedule, parental leave and many more. Our focus is on work-life balance, and living healthy, fulfilling lives as we Dare Mighty Things Together. For benefits eligible positions, benefits are effective the first day of the month coincident with or immediately following the employee’s start date. For further benefits information click Benefits and Perks.

Pay

The typical full time equivalent annual hiring range for this job in Pasadena, California is $138,632 - $174,304.

Schedule

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