Cost Accountant

Duration: Permanent Hire

Location: Houston, TX 77064

Hours Of Work: Monday - Friday 7AM or 8AM (8hr days) 40hr weeks , standard

Hybrid Schedule Offered: Currently we are Hybrid. Couple days at home a week when candidate is self-sufficient.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in accounting required
• Minimum 2 years experience in Cost Accounting Role (manufacturing setting required)
• CPA/MBA Obtained or in the process of obtaining required
• Strong skills and knowledge of manufacturing accounting and Standard Costing
• Working knowledge of the manufacturing business
• Strong managerial presence that reflects a hand-on participative, pro-active operating style requiring a high energy level and tolerance to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication; strong planning and organization skills
• Strong desire to work across teams to find solutions and improve performance

Description:

Seeking Cost Accountant with strong interpersonal skills and experience in collaborating and coordinating with various groups, especially manufacturing operations. At the plant level, this role supports the implementation of financial plans report and analyze to manage the achievement of company goals for growth, profitability, and stability.

• Frequent plant manager contact; active participation in plant financial driven discussions
• Partner with Operations team to solve and continuously improve use of local ERP
• Partner with Operations to develop new reporting tools for plant management
• Assist Operations with keeping open sales orders, purchase orders, and shipped-not-invoiced up-to-date
• Work with Purchasing to ensure timely costing and analysis of purchase price variance to prevent variances
• Support Plant Controller in analyzing plant financial performance comparing actuals to plan and forecast
• Support Plant Controller in Establishing labor and overhead absorption rates and analyze related variances monthly with quarterly adjustments
• Create and publish KPIs and dashboards/metrics that are timely, insightful, and automated by working cross-functionally with multiple Business Units.
• Lead and report on variances regularly to find ways to improve costing and processes
• Identify, coordinate and reviews cost accounting projects, such as price and margin analysis, customer, market and product profitability, data warehouse integrity and reporting, etc
• Analyze inventory levels and valuations and support cycle/physical counts. Recommend ways to minimize variances
• Complete and month end MFG process
• Facilitate data gathering and clean-up for annual cost roll
• Assists Plan Controller with special projects as required
• Perform other work-related tasks as assigned
• Work with and develop Strong Communication over Financial MFG Variances

Employer Info

Our client specializes in engineering and fabrication of rig systems, wellbore technologies and completion and production solutions.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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