Jr. Cost Accountant

Summary

Financial support role for the manufacturing business at Prinova, supporting Nutrition. This role works closely with the business unit Operations Leadership, Finance, and CI to improve operations and profitability. Role reports directly to the Cost Accounting Manager.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the analysis and completion of the Production Work Order from data collection to reporting
• Analyze and compare Production Work Orders Actual v. Standard
• Report on Work Order results and variances at completion, and approve for closing
• Partner with Operations to collect production data pertaining to each Work Order
• Validate routings with actual data and report on routing discrepancies
• Develop and maintain cost-related trend reports by work center group and product categories
• Report material usage variances and scrap for each work order
• Report on material price variances on PO’s and Receipts
• Reconcile the WIP account
• Other duties may be assigned

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting or Finance from a 4-year college or university plus 2 to 3 years of related experience
• Cost Accounting experience, preferred
• Manufacturing environment experience, preferred
• JD Edwards or other ERP software experience, preferred
• Proficient in Excel and other report-generating software