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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
• 3+ years of recent Cost Accountant experience.
• Expert in Excel, including using and manipulating large extracts, setting up pivot tables, and using lookups.
• Significant hands-on experience using an integrated ERP system; NetSuite experience strongly desired.
• Solid understanding of manufacturing operations, specifically Job Shop/Single Process Flow, inventory, and cost accounting.
• Understanding of U.S. GAAP as it applies to a manufacturing environment is required.
• Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Extraordinary interpersonal skills to work in conjunction with other departments.
• Must be a team player who also works well independently.
• Must be able to analyze data, draw conclusions, interpret results, and make recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the cost accounting system that ensures accurate costing.
• Update and maintain standard costs for all products.
• Roll costs for all products on an as-needed basis.
• Ensure Bills of Materials (BOMs) are complete, accurate, and correct.
• Audit BOMs on a regular basis to ensure all relevant costs are captured.
• Analyze production costs and prepare regular reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs.
• Post inventory transactions into the system.
• Analyze any changes to the BOMs to determine the effect on margins.
• Analyze and investigate any significant inventory variances, favorable or unfavorable.
• Analyze costs and recommend cost-saving strategies.
• Coordinate with inventory cycle count teams to ensure inventory accuracy.
• Responsible for account reconciliation of physical inventories and cycle counts.
• Run on-hand inventory reports and compare with the general ledger.
• Coordinate with operations for period-end cutoff and any inventory adjustments.
• Perform inventory reconciliations at period end; investigate variances.
• Prepare periodic inventory reserves reconciliation, analyzing inventory for risk and monitoring with support from internal stakeholders.
• Perform month-end and year-end closing activities.
• Post journal entries and perform Balance Sheet Account Reconciliations.
• Analyze plant financials and discuss with plant managers and the VP of Operations.
• Assist with preparation of budget and forecast data, working closely with program management and plant management.
• Ensure the system is running as intended and work with IT resources and vendor support as needed.
• Assist in reviewing and improving the NetSuite configuration supporting manufacturing, inventory, costing, and financial reporting.
• Validate item setup, costing methods, BOMs, routings, work orders, inventory locations, and related manufacturing transactions to ensure they are configured and flowing correctly through NetSuite.
• Trace transactions from source activity through the general ledger to identify system, configuration, process, or data issues affecting inventory, COGS, WIP, and gross margin.
• Identify and document NetSuite process and configuration gaps and work with Finance, Operations, IT, and outside consultants to develop and implement corrective actions.
• Assist with testing and validation of NetSuite changes, enhancements, and process improvements before implementation.
• Develop and maintain NetSuite reports, saved searches, and supporting schedules needed for costing, inventory reconciliations, month-end close, and management reporting.
• Help establish and document ERP procedures, controls, and user processes to improve data integrity, transaction consistency, and financial reporting.
• Support cleanup and reconciliation of historical inventory, costing, work order, and general ledger issues resulting from prior system setup or transaction processing.
• Assist with user training and troubleshooting related to manufacturing, inventory, and cost accounting processes in NetSuite.
• Produce/develop production, variance, and other reports.
• Prepare, analyze, and report monthly gross margin by customer, part number, and production job.
• Prepare cost-benefit analysis reports.
• Carry out cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis.
• Perform make-or-buy cost analysis.
• Perform profitability analysis by product or product group.
• Prepare inventory valuation and discrepancy reporting.
• Prepare audit reports and present findings to management.
• Work with sales and engineering to ensure pricing to customers is profitable to the company based on volume, timing, long-term strategy, and other relevant factors.
• Recommend changes to the company’s processes and policies to reduce cost and maximize profit.
• Advise management on appropriate costing based on financial data.
• Perform other accounting duties, special projects, and tasks as assigned.