Cost Accountant

Champion Homes•Leacock-Leola-Bareville, PA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Champion Home Builder, Inc. is seeking a Cost Accountant to join their team in the Leola, PA region. This role manages product costing and margin analysis for several brands of manufactured houses, including options. The Cost Accountant will determine the costing impact of product modifications and customizations, provide costing estimates, and maintain master model and option price files for new business quotations. This position also manages home configuration and standard costing systems.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and/or 2+ years related experience.
Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as square and lineal footages, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume, as it pertains to costing.
Must be able to research and problem solve, devise solutions and recommendations, and report on findings.
Must be able to exercise independent judgment or adopt or modify methods and standards to meet assigned duties/objectives.
Must have leadership and organizational skills with the drive to excel and perform at the next level.

Nice To Haves

Accounting and Costing experience in a manufacturing industry preferred.
Experience with Navision or other ERP systems is a plus.
Manufactured housing or construction industry knowledge is helpful.

Responsibilities

Maintains cost in Navision ERP system, creating bills of material for models and options, updating bills by exchanging new items being purchased for old items made obsolete, to provide accurate margin information for use by the General Manager and Controller for pricing decisions.
Local Navision system maintenance (running system update programs, working with the corporate office to implement updates or problem resolution, training others).
Production floor audits of bills of material for models and options to verify and update Navision bills for as-built items and quantities.
Maintenance of standard construction specifications for each brand.
Approving all job orders prior to production.
Interacts with other departments, including Sales, Engineering, Materials, and Production.
Track commodity costs to monitor the need to initiate or increase material surcharges.
Ensures maintenance remains up to date to provide current margin information for models and options used to determine price adjustments.
Maintains all models, options, and Navision price files with approved prices for quoting.
Assists with the quarterly physical inventory count and valuation.
Maintains the standard costing system and manages purchase price variances.
Assists the controller with accounting as it relates to inventories (raw, WIP, finished goods, and cost-of-goods sold, valuations, and reserves).