Sr. Cost Accountant

This is a rare opportunity to join a company and truly leave your mark. A small rapidly growing business needs to bring in a Sr. Cost Accountant. This will be the first time that we have someone dedicated to analyzing our business in this manner. We are looking for an experienced Sr. Cost Accountant who can come in and dig into our business.

Job Title: Senior Cost Accountant

Department: Finance

Reports To: CFO

SUMMARY: The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for overseeing the corporate cost accounting function, ensuring proper recording of day-to-day transactions of the organization. The Senior Cost Accountant will apply principles of cost accounting to conduct studies which provide detailed cost information not supplied by the general accounting systems.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following.

• Plan, study, and collect data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases, inventory, and labor.
• Monitor job costing and work orders to ensure accuracy of inventory costs.
• Analyze changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods, or services provided, to determine effect on cost.
• Analyze actual manufacturing costs and prepare periodic reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs.
• Record cost information relating to inventory costing for use in controlling expenditures.
• Provide reports on labor and perform the associated monthly journal entries.
• Maintain and report on inventory cycle counting activities.
• Track and report on overhead costs and rates.
• Analyze audits of costs and prepare reports.
• Compile cost information to be used in operating budget preparation.
• Make estimates of new and proposed product or service costs.
• Recommend cost efficiencies in new product layouts.
• Provide management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting price and profitability of products or services, including sales, gross profit performance, and trends.
• Provide other management reports as required.
• Support the CFO in special projects.
• Internal managerial reporting.
• Review inventory accounts.
• Prepare inventory cost rolls and adjustments.
• Trained to cover A/P and A/R as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

May direct the work of others on a project basis.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Must be able to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, and have good interpersonal skills.
• Must be detail oriented and be able to handle more than one task at a time making sure that each task is followed through to completion.
• A good understanding of the dynamics of a high-volume manufacturing business and the issues that are important to senior management.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Prefer a bachelor's degree in accounting and/or finance, a minimum 3 - 5 years related experience, preferably in a fast paced manufacturing environment, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers. Ability to communicate with all levels.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, and analysis. Compute ratios and percentages.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to deal with several abstract and concrete variables at one time.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

COMPUTER SKILLS

Proficient with Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Familiar with MRP, ERP, labor tracking and accounting software systems.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position requires the incumbent to stand, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl occasionally and regularly requires walking, sitting, talking, and using hands to finger, handle or feel. The employee may occasionally lift up to 30 pounds. The employee will be required to use a keyboard and speak on the phone.

Specific vision abilities required by this job are close, distance, color and peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is an onsite position.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate in an office environment. (Examples: business office with computers and/or computer printers, light traffic).

Employment with B.E. Meyers & Co. is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, Veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.