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Cost Accountant

Elhazek Construction
Cairo, Egypt
Posted 4 years ago
66Applicants for1 open position
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  • Planning, Studying, and collecting data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases, inventory and labor
  • Analyzing data collected and recording results
  • Analyzing changes in product design, raw materials, project implementation methods or services provided, to determine effects on cost
  • Analyzing actual production costs and preparing periodic reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs
  • 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
  • Maintaining Cost Accounting System
  • Assisting in Month end close of the General Ledger
  • Conducts physical inventories and monitors cycle count program
  • Reconciles finished goods inventories
  • Data Collection
  • Construct data accumulation systems for a cost accounting system
  • Create and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems

Inventory

  • Coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle counts
  • Investigate cycle counting variances and resolve issues
  • Update standard costs in the bill of materials
  • Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies
  • Validate the cost of goods sold as part of the month-end close
  • Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles
  • Work with the materials review board to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory (still need to create)

Analysis

  • Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses
  • Report on breakeven points by projects
  • Report on margins by project and division
  • Report on periodic variances and their causes, focusing in particular on spending variances
  • Analyze capital budgeting requests
  • Perform cost accumulation tasks as a member of the target costing group

Job Requirements

  • Degree in Accounting
  • At least 5 years in the same field
  • English language ability

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