Job Description

• Monitor and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems.
• Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses and provide solutions.
• Report on breakeven points by product, work center, and plant.
• Report on variances and their causes, focusing on material cost variance and labor rate variance.
• Review, process, and provide cost impact analysis for Engineering Change Notices.
• Review and update standard costs in the bill of materials.
• Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies. Provide analysis and reporting of variances.
• Assist with annual standard cost updates.
• As part of the month-end close, prepare journal entries related to inventory and WIP, conduct account reconciliation, prepare variance analysis, and project closing/analysis.
• Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles.
• Coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle counts. Investigate cycle counting variances and resolve issues.
• Work with the operations team to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory.
• Serve as cost accounting liaison with both internal and external auditors.
• Update and review cost accounting work instructions and SOPs as needed.
• Participate on project teams, serving as primary Finance contact for Engineered-to-Order projects. Provide key work cell performance data to Engineering and Operations. Analyze and communicate budget-to-actual project performance to senior management.
• Prepare financial/inventory reports and provide explanations to variance/causes as needed.
• Perform other reasonably related tasks as assigned by management.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

1. Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

1. Experience

• 3 years of experience in standard cost accounting in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with an ERP system
• GAAP experience

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Education or Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 5+ years of experience in standard cost accounting in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with LN ERP System
• Experience with Implementing ERP system upgrade
• Experience with BI reporting
• Experience with Hyperion
• Lean / Six Sigma experience

1. Interpersonal Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels in the organization, both verbally and in writing, formally and informally
• Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization

1. Technical Skills

• Highly developed cost analysis skills
• Expert using Microsoft Excel to collect, organize, and manipulate very large amounts of complex data. Experienced in using VLOOKUP’s and pivot tables to organize and summarize large volumes of data.

Additional Information

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or genetics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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