Cost Accountant

All responsibilities require work within SAP

• Responsible for reconciling production, usage, receipts, and shipments
• Period inventory reconciliations and annual physical inventory observation
• Work closely with Contract Manufacturing Managers on results and issues pertaining to co-packers
• Period-end financial close activities. Provides key variance analysis and explanations to management and Contract Manufacturing Managers
• Develop forecasts for manufacturing variances during period budget updates
• Develop bill of material standards, product costing, and overhead costs for annual operating plan and explain year over year changes
• Control owner for periodic and Accounting controls
• Completion of Accounting Self-Assessment Guides
• Planning, studying, and collecting data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases and usage, inventory and labor.
• Analyzing data collected and recording results to create accurate bills of material.
• Analyzing changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods or services provided, to determine effects on cost.
• Analyzing actual manufacturing costs and preparing periodic reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs and explaining month over month variances.
• Recording cost information for use in controlling expenditures.
• Analyzing audits of costs and preparing reports.
• Making estimates of new and proposed product costs.
• Providing management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products or services.
• Communicating with lab and management personnel to understand and implement process changes in the ERP system.
• Maintaining cost accounting records both within and outside the ERP system