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The Senior Cost Accountant helps to ensure the financial positions of Lange companies are correctly reported by recording and analyzing project costs and margins, ensuring revenues and costs are recorded per GAAP, and reconciling accounts timely. In this role, you will support management decision making by providing analysis and insights and producing periodic financial and managerial reports. The Senior Cost Accountant helps safeguard company resources by maintaining an adequate system of records and controls and working in a safe and productive manner. Will work independently with minimal supervision to solve complex tasks.
Responsibilities- Support business leadership by preparing and communicating financial analytics including product revenues and costs, labor efficiency and capacity, and overhead tracking
- Drive inventory accuracy by monitoring BOM accuracy, inventory levels and turn targets, inventory obsolescence, and assists in reducing scrap and waste
- Compiles and analyzes financial information to prepare and record journal entries documenting business transactions
- Closes work tickets timely and ensures costs are properly recorded
- Prepares journal entries, reconciliations, and other supporting documents, including reviewing, investigating, reporting and correcting errors and inconsistencies in financial entries, in conformance with GAAP
- Manages Company risk by assisting in review of sales proposals and customer purchase orders to ensure alignment with Company standards
- Supports audit and tax requests
- Cross trained as backup for other roles
- 4-year degree in Accounting or Finance
- 3+ years accounting experience
- Ability and desire to translate complex financial concepts to individuals at all levels including finance and non-finance managers
- Experience with ERP Systems
- Proficient in MS Office with advanced skills in Excel
- Understanding of and ability to adhere to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- 2+ years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing setting
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or Certified Management Accountant (CMA) license
- Experience compiling and analyzing large sets of data
- Experience with financial analysis and reporting
- Experience with Sage 100, Microsoft Access, Power BI
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met
- The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading
- Typical office or administrative environment. The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions
Benefits
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Retirement Plans + Employer Match
- Discount with the Greater Wichita YMCA
- And more!
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.
This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Non-U.S. persons selected must meet eligibility requirements for access to export-restricted information. The ITAR/EAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please provide a brief description of your reasonable accommodation to accommodations@lange.us.com
Department/Division: Finance
Reports to: Manufacturing Controller
Location: Wichita, KS
Position Type: Full-time
Travel Requirement: Less than 15%
FLSA Status: Exempt
Founded in 2016, LANGE Shared Services supports various LANGE companies including RedGuard, RedGuard Diversified Structures, SiteBox Storage, CoverSix, Lange Real Estate, Acquipt and Equisset with Human Resources, Finance, and Information Technology needs.
