Sr. Cost Accountant

```Job Overview```
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cost Accountant to join our team. As a Senior Cost Accountant, you will play a crucial role in analyzing and reporting on the financial performance of our organization. You will be responsible for ensuring accurate cost accounting records, conducting financial analysis, and providing insights to support strategic decision-making. You will be maintaining accounting processes to control and analyze the costs of business activities such as raw material purchases, job costs, and labor costs. Will also assist Warehouse Managers and the Plant Manager with inventory control.

The role will be involved in our continued integration into a new ERP. The role will have the opportunity to expand into other responsibilities.

```Responsibilities```

• Creates month end inventory reports for raw materials, scrap, finished goods, and uses those reports to book ending inventory details into the general ledger.

• Creates analysis on job costing, all plant related costs and maintains best practice operating/ accounting procedures.
• Planning, studying, and verifying the costs of business activity such as job costs, purchased raw materials costs, scrap.

• Analyzes job labor costs for accuracy and completeness and efficiency recommendations.
• Lead the cost accounting portion of period-end closing processes and related analysis and coordinates with Corporate.

• Assists in conducting of physical inventories and monitors cycle count and spot check programs.
• Review, report and explain drivers of manufacturing performance, and trends.
• Develop, prepare, and maintain various weekly/monthly/quarterly reporting.
• Participate in process improvement initiatives as well as aid in performing internal control guidelines and testing.

• Lead the monthly inventory close procedures.

• Continue the integration into Great Plains ERP.

```Skills```
To excel in this role, you should possess the following skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, or Finance.

• Must have a strong aptitude for cost systems, excellent analytical skills and understanding of accounting principles, and strong understanding of accounting for raw materials flows in manufacturing environment.
• Computer Literate – Strong Excel skills. Experience using ERP software. Great Plains and SAGE experience a plus.
• Ability to work with peers in accounting as well as with purchasing and manufacturing staff.
• Ability to accurately prepare weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports. Must be a hands-on accounting professional who is an operationally focused team player.

• Independent problem solver.
• Experience with general ledger accounting and financial statement preparation
• Ability to forecast costs and analyze financial data
• Excellent financial analysis skills, including cash flow analysis
• Solid understanding of accounts payable processes
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy

• CPA and Spanish language skills could be a plus.

If you are a dedicated professional with a passion for cost accounting and financial analysis, we would love to hear from you. Join our team as a Senior Cost Accountant and contribute to the success of our organization.

Please note that only qualified candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in this position.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Cost accounting: 3 years (Preferred)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Wheeling, IL: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person