Senior Cost Accountant

Our client is a large manufacturer seeking to hire a Senior Cost Accountant to join their team.

Salary/Hourly Rate:

$65k – $90k

Position Overview:

The Senior Cost Accountant supports day-to-day plant accounting functions by providing timely and accurately reported financial information while ensuring compliance with generally accepted accounting principles.  A successful individual will have a focus on costs and areas where operational and management accounting principles will generate efficiencies for the operations.

Responsibilities of the Senior Cost Accountant:

• Supports Operations by monitoring, preparing, and evaluating detailed analytical reports regarding costs, productivity, efficiencies, spend and associates variances.
• Works with the Operations team to provide actional operating improvements and process improvements for cost efficiencies.
• Performs various general accounting activities including, but not limited to, journal entries and account reconciliations.
• Prepares and analyzes standard cost and vendor price comparison of ingredient and packaging materials to monitor and to report purchase price variances, labor efficiency variances, manufacturing variances, etc.
• Partners with Operations and Supply Chain to highlight potential inventory exposures and communicate for resolution and management.
• Monitors the progress, the completion, and the adherence to company policies of physical inventory counts of ingredients, packaging, finished goods and spare parts.
• Partners with Corporate Accounting and Operations to monitor and track capital spending to ensure projects are closed out timely and are in line with budget.
• Performs other related and assigned duties as necessary.

Qualifications for the Senior Cost Accountant:

• 2 + years of related work experience as a cost accountant or plant accountant in a manufacturing environment.
• Expert knowledge of manufacturing and managerial cost accounting principles, generally accepted accounting principles and cost accounting.
• Some experience with budgetary concepts and techniques, pricing concepts and techniques, and inventory control concepts and techniques.
• Basic knowledge of relevant department concepts, procedures, and regulations, and PC word-processing/spreadsheet software applications.
• Basic knowledge of project/assignment management techniques and procedures.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited college or university.

Benefits:

• Client-provided benefits available, upon eligibility.