Cost Accountant

Champion Homes•Ocala, FL

About The Position

Champion Home Builders, Inc. is seeking a Cost Accountant to join its team in the Ocala, Florida region. The role manages product costing and margin analysis for several manufactured-house brands, including options. It determines the costing impact of product modifications and customizations, provides cost estimates, maintains model and option price files for new-business quotations, and manages home configuration and standard costing systems. The Cost Accountant maintains product cost and bill-of-material records in the Navision ERP system, supports local system maintenance, and audits production-floor bills of material against as-built items and quantities. The position also maintains construction specifications, approves job orders before production, tracks commodity costs, supports inventory counts and valuations, and assists the Controller with inventory and cost-of-goods-sold accounting.

Requirements

Leadership and organizational skills, with the drive to excel and perform at the next level.
Ability to exercise independent judgment or adopt or modify methods and standards to meet assigned duties and objectives.
Ability to research and solve problems, develop solutions and recommendations, and report findings.
Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as square and lineal footage, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume as they relate to costing.
Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Accounting and a minimum of 2 years of related experience are preferred.
Accounting and costing experience in a manufacturing industry is preferred.
Experience with Navision or other ERP systems is a plus.
Knowledge of the manufactured housing or construction industry is helpful.

Responsibilities

Maintain costs in the Navision ERP system and create bills of material for models and options.
Update bills of material when newly purchased items replace obsolete items to provide accurate margin information for pricing decisions.
Maintain the local Navision system, run system update programs, coordinate with the corporate office on updates and problem resolution, and train others.
Audit production-floor bills of material for models and options and update Navision records to reflect as-built items and quantities.
Maintain standard construction specifications for each brand.
Approve all job orders before production.
Interact with Sales, Engineering, Materials, and Production departments.
Track commodity costs and monitor when material surcharges should be initiated or increased.
Keep costing maintenance current to provide margin information for models and options used in price adjustments.
Maintain models, options, and Navision price files with approved prices for quotations.
Assist with quarterly physical inventory counts and valuation.
Maintain the standard costing system and manage purchase price variances.
Assist the Controller with accounting for raw-material, work-in-process, and finished-goods inventories, cost of goods sold, valuations, and reserves.