Manager, Cost Accounting

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.

25d

About The Position

The Cost Accounting Manager for the US is a key member of the TOPS (Technical Operations) Finance team. This role supports the monthly and quarterly closing activities, audit, and inventory management. The Cost Accounting Manager is a driven, detail-oriented self-starter, who enjoys building productive relationships, has innate curiosity, enjoys problem solving, and has an eye for process improvement. The successful candidate displays technical accounting skills, solid knowledge in costing, strong analytical skills, business acumen and communication skills. To be successful in this role the candidate needs to be proactive, performance driven with a keen sense of ownership and a great team player.

Requirements

• Strong skills in technical accounting, communication, teamwork, business acumen
• Minimum 5 years of Finance/Accounting or equivalent experience
• Accounting experience in costing or controllership organizations required
• Experience of US GAAP, Sarbanes Oxley, and internal control environment essential
• Working knowledge and skills in SAP and Excel are required

Nice To Haves

• Cost Accounting experience strongly preferred
• Prior SAP experiences a plus
• CMA or CPA is desired but not required

Responsibilities

• Inventory Management: Manage all aspects of the inventory transactions for US produced products under the current costing process. Including raw material purchases, plant inventory transactions, Drug Substance manufacturing. Support audit activities.
• Cost Accounting: Manage full product cost accounting. Including standard setting, standard cost variance analysis, inventory reserve management.
• Monthly and Quarterly closing support: Complete inventory journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance review, inventory analysis, profit in inventory eliminations. Complete inventory reporting to support quarterly filings and audits.
• Business partnering and business process improvement: Support business partners in their daily tasks, while collaboratively seeking opportunities for continued process improvement.
• Internal control: ensure a strong internal control environment for the assigned business areas to minimize the chance of SOX and Financial Reporting exposures; support the auditing and remediation activities as needed.
• Others: Support local and global ad-hoc projects as needed

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees