Diversity Talent Scouts
Cost Accountant
Diversity Talent Scouts, West Columbia, SC, United States
Job Description
Basic Qualifications:
Education
Education or Experience
- Monitor and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems.
- Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses and provide solutions.
- Report on breakeven points by product, work center, and plant.
- Report on variances and their causes, focusing on material cost variance and labor rate variance.
- Review, process, and provide cost impact analysis for Engineering Change Notices.
- Review and update standard costs in the bill of materials.
- Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies. Provide analysis and reporting of variances.
- Assist with annual standard cost updates.
- As part of the month-end close, prepare journal entries related to inventory and WIP, conduct account reconciliation, prepare variance analysis, and project closing/analysis.
- Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles.
- Coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle counts. Investigate cycle counting variances and resolve issues.
- Work with the operations team to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory.
- Serve as cost accounting liaison with both internal and external auditors.
- Update and review cost accounting work instructions and SOPs as needed.
- Participate on project teams, serving as primary Finance contact for Engineered-to-Order projects. Provide key work cell performance data to Engineering and Operations. Analyze and communicate budget-to-actual project performance to senior management.
- Prepare financial/inventory reports and provide explanations to variance/causes as needed.
- Perform other reasonably related tasks as assigned by management.
Basic Qualifications:
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- 3 years of experience in standard cost accounting in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with an ERP system
- GAAP experience
Education or Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting
- 5+ years of experience in standard cost accounting in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with ERP System
- Experience with Implementing ERP system upgrade
- Experience with BI reporting
- Experience with Hyperion
- Lean / Six Sigma experience
- Ability to communicate effectively with all levels in the organization, both verbally and in writing, formally and informally
- Ability to work effectively in a matrix organization
- Highly developed cost analysis skills
- Expert using Microsoft Excel to collect, organize, and manipulate very large amounts of complex data. Experienced in using VLOOKUP's and pivot tables to organize and summarize large volumes of data.