Cost Accounting Manager

Essential Functions:

Inventory

• Coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle counts
• Investigate count variances, resolve issues and communicate results with operations
• Develop and maintain standard costs
• Monitor manufacturing variances and communicate results with operations
• Validate ending inventory balance and cost of goods sold as part of the month-end close
• Accumulate and allocate overhead and conversion costs
• Design procedures to identify and dispose of obsolete inventory

Analysis

• Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses
• Report on breakeven points by product line
• Report on margins by product, customer and division
• Report on financial statement fluctuations
• Develop customer pricing proposals and volume discount pricing matrices

General/Accounting and Reporting

• Design, establish and maintain General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Asset and Inventory processes
• Design and implement monthly, quarterly and annual closing processes
• Prepare financial statements, analytics, monthly reconciliations, journal entries
• Analyze data and report on ratios, trends and variances
• Ensures timely reporting of financial data to Corporate
• Prepare budgets, forecasts and related analyses
• Establish and maintain strong internal controls to ensure compliance
• Act as liaison with internal and external auditors
• Ensure statutory reporting is processed in accordance with individual requirements such as sales tax filings, income taxes, etc.
• Prepare internal and external stakeholder presentations

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in finance or accounting.
• 8+ years of experience in Accounting related positions
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop junior team members
• Manufacturing experience with an understanding of relevant accounting and financial reporting, Cost Accounting/reporting, cash flow projections, financial modeling, consolidated financial statement preparation and job costing business models required
• Experience working with SAP preferred
• Highly proficient with MS Office
• Superior analytical and quantitative skills
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, ability to influence the decisions of others (including executive management)
• High integrity
• Strategic, big picture thinker balanced by focus on the tactical aspects
• Able to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously while meeting deadlines
• Strong organizational skills as well as attention to detail and follow up
• Calculated decision maker who takes responsibility for their decisions
• Demonstrated ability to lead people and get positive results through others
• Work collaboratively with other departments