Project Manager Accounting

This position is primarily responsible for ensuring the accuracy of inventory costing and accounting across the Consumer Products channel. This person will work closely with the channel CFO, Controller and Operations teams in a collaborative and fast-paced environment as we continue to grow the channel into a leading consumer water player. This role will play a critical role in the monthly close process by ensuring transactions are accurately recorded, preparing inventory reconciliations, and ensuring accurate physical inventories and cycle counts. This requires a strong attention to detail, data integrity, and the facilitation of conflict resolution.

Specific Job Function:

• Responsible to create & maintain BOMS in local ERPs (e.g. SAGE) as well as master BOM data in spreadsheet files.
• Establish, validate and maintain appropriate additional added costs “such as per unit labor, handling, etc” to be added to materials in BOMS.
• Ownership of inventory reconciliations across all warehouses
• Work cross-functionally to provide analysis to ensure supplier shipments align with demand planning and inventory turns goals across the organization.
• Assist in identifying inventory variances and identify root causes. Work with operations team to implement action plans to remediate issues as they arise.
• Work with business units on establishing and implementing inventory related accounting policies and procedures as needed.
• Maintain and validate inventory costing integrity, including responsibility for management of inventory cost tier adjustments.
• Lead year-end inventory audit process and physical inventories.
• Maintain purchases clearing account reconciliation.
• Work closely with location personnel to ensure accurate inventory accounting and work order processing.
• Prepare supporting documentation for quarterly and annual external audits.
• Month end freight expense posting reviews for possible Inventory capitalization or billing to end customers.
• Assist business unit finance functions with expenditure analysis needed for budgeting and forecasts.
• Support other adhoc projects as needed.

Requirements:

• Three or more years’ experience as a cost accountant in a manufacturing environment
• Proficiency in Excel in conjunction with ERP systems and planning.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• SAGE, Hyperion, and SAP knowledge a plus.
• Travel = 20%

Competencies:

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies in this position.