Finance Manager (Cost Accounting)

ATI • Monroe, NC

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About The Position

The Cost Accounting Manager, Operations Finance will be responsible for inventory, cost planning and estimation, analysis, and operational reporting. This role's primary focus is to provide financial leadership to management across multiple locations and oversight of cross-functional business processes that are necessary to guide effective decision making related to cost planning/estimation, plant operations impacts to cost, new business opportunities, cost reduction and process improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
• Minimum 5 years relevant accounting and leadership experience (prefer multi-location, midsize to large company)
• Demonstrated career progression within an organization
• 4+ years manufacturing experience (working with materials as well as plant overhead rates)
• Background in manufacturing (process manufacturing preferred)
• Product cost estimation experience
• ERP experience in a manufacturing setting (Oracle experience a plus) preferred
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and decision-making skills
• Project management skills
• Strong Excel and Hyperion experience preferred
• PowerBI
• Self-directed with ability to lead and communicate across multiple functions and levels of the organization
• Ability to explain finance/accounting concepts in layman terms to non-financial managers
• Ability to embrace and drive change
• Detail oriented, highly organized and able to manage multiple assignments with minimal supervision

Nice To Haves

• multi-location, midsize to large company experience
• Oracle experience
• Strong Excel and Hyperion experience

Responsibilities

• Oversee inventory, cost accounting and cost estimation processes at multiple site locations
• Develop, implement and maintain cost accounting and inventory policies and procedures to ensure accuracy in financial accounting and operational reporting
• Understand internal operations of each plant (i.e. absorption, production variances) along with inventory optimization as how it impacts cost estimation of a product.
• Develop, oversee, and present monthly operational results (cost savings, throughput data, unit cost)
• Lead/Drive continuous improvement methods to maintain, evaluate and update operational standards through coordination with operations (run time, labor levels, supply costs, material costs), technology (yields, steps, blends), and supply chain (flowpath) teams
• Partner with plant teams (ops/finance) to understand cost variances and work toward driving total cost down
• Develop and implement processes to analyze and interpret operational costs and product profitability to drive actionable decision-making
• Assist in the annual planning process for material, variable and fixed costs, department expense budgets
• Assist the forecasting & budgeting process with gross margin, absorption and production variance analysis
• Prepare cost models as they relate to new business and long-term agreements (Cost Travelers)
• Maintain a robust control environment with respect to inventory and safeguarding company assets
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies, internal controls, accounting standards, and procedures.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunities to all applicants without regard to applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, or any other status protected be federal or state law.
• Reasonable accommodations to allow an applicant to participate in the hiring process if so requested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees