Purpose of the Role:

Maintain cost accumulation systems in order to analyze business expenditures and advise on improving efficiency, and reduce financial waste.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish, and maintain manufacturing cost standards, and cost allocation systems
• Advise management on appropriate costing based on financial data
• Ensure sufficient controls are in place to maintain a high level of accuracy of cost data, accumulations, and allocations
• Perform detailed reviews, using both trend and margin analysis, to validate cost of goods sold
• Perform and report on cost to complete estimates for work in process
• Maintaining data collection systems to produce accumulation and reporting of cost information
• Oversee physical inventory counts and cycle counts
• Perform inventory analysis to ensure errors are identified, resolved, and design of controls to prevent future errors
• Conduct periodic review of inventory with a cross-functional team to determine inventory obsolescence, and provide recommendation for valuation adjustments
• Conduct reviews of product margins to detect changes in profitability and identify for management action
• Other duties as assigned to support the finance and accounting team

Qualification requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of technical manufacturing accounting experience
• Strong financial analysis skills including attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability in problem solving
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Possess the ability to be resourceful, to act independently, where appropriate, and to recognize when higher intervention may be necessary.

Core Competencies

• Safety – Observes and enforces safety procedures; reports potentially unsafe conditions.
• Quality- Strives to eliminate errors, accurate work is a priority, seeks opportunities to improve a process that is implemented
• Productivity - Manages workload, works efficiently, meets goals and objectives
• Employee Engagement – Passionate about job and company, committed to the company and puts discretionary effort into work.

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. The description is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required to employees assigned to this job.