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About The Position

Requirements

• Authorization to work in the United States
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• CPA
• 10-12 years related accounting/finance experience
• Experience in a manufacturing or plant environment
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles (e.g., GAAP) and financial analysis
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
• Clear understanding of financial statements including balance sheets
• Ability respond to situations outside of normal working hours as needed
• Ability to work overtime as needed
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Flexibility; adaptable to change in work assignments/priorities
• Strong planning and organizing skills
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to lead problem solving and troubleshooting efforts for material variances

Nice To Haves

• 5-10+ years of experience in a finance or accounting role within a manufacturing environment, with an emphasis on cost accounting and variance analysis
• Advanced knowledge of Cost Accounting in a consumer products or manufacturing environment
• Intermediate to advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point), Microsoft GP; SAP

Responsibilities

• Oversee all plant-level financial activities, including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting, to ensure profitability and alignment with corporate objectives
• Maintain and develop the cost accounting system, analyze production costs and variances, and control standard costs. Plan and implement cost control and improvement initiatives
• Develop, implement, and maintain robust internal controls to safeguard assets and ensure the integrity of financial data, in accordance with ISO 9001 and other regulations.
• Ensure the plant operates in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and company policies.
• Conceptualize, implement, and govern general ledger and financial reporting processes and on-time compliance of accounting standards
• Establish documented systems, policies, desk manuals and procedures in finance and accounts, establishment and implementation of accounting controls
• Regular monitoring of vendors and customers reconciliations
• Oversee the conduct of all cash transactions, general ledger entries and physical verification analysis & corrective actions. Supervise and design processes for verifying and recording all claims and receipts received. Ensure up to date a cash book reflecting all payments/receipts
• Review authorization, documentation, control and accounting of Fixed assets
• Establish and monitor compliance to internal and statutory/ legal control procedures and laws
• Variance Analysis i.e. Budget v/s Actual analysis of Fixed overhead expenses for Corporate, Scrutiny of accounts, rectifications.
• Analyze all un-reconciled items on the monthly bank reconciliation as prepared and implement action if/when requested to do so
• Review overdue open advances, deposits for collections
• Keep track of accounts payable and the short-term liabilities to ensure timely payment to vendors
• Oversee archiving of financial documents, input and output records, including General Ledger and Trial Balance
• Coordinating with Corporate accounts for monthly closure.
• Coordinating for statutory and Tax audit.
• Focus on co-ordination with other departments for collection of data/information for timely recording of transactions and develop system and processes to eliminate non-value-added activity and to minimize errors for improving efficiency
• To provide necessary support & training to account personal so that they can discharge their responsibility efficiently
• Interfacing with Auditors statutory and internal auditors and providing them with all necessary documents for the audit process
• Review of Controls & Correction in accounts department.
• Preparation and analysis of stage wise production and process costing, overhead costing: Budget vs. Actual, Batch wise cost, stage wise allocation
• Prepare valuation of Finished Goods, Raw Material, and Work In Progress and reconcile all to General Ledger.
• Monitoring the production costs and updates the costs sheets on a regular basis
• Overhead budget vs. actual variance analysis.
• Calculate labor and overhead rates for standard cost system.
• To prepare monthly MIS and P&L and Cash flow for presentation for management review
• Prepare and analyze monthly Working capital position and present to management for review with remarks on optimization / risk areas
• Help team with ad hoc analysis like inventory reconciliation, fixed cost reduction areas, scenario analysis, costing for new product launches / proposals
• Analyze P&L and cash flows and help in preparation and monitoring of 13 week rolling cash flows
• Prepare ABP with inputs from various departments and do monthly tracking against ABP

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability coverages
• 401(k) retirement plan
• company paid holidays
• vacation time
• business casual work environment