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Senior Cost Accountant

Nichols Portland

Description

Financial Reporting

• Conduct month and year-end closing, ensuring all accounts are reconciled and balanced.
  • Provide management with financial analysis of manufacturing operations.
  • Support financial related audits.
Cost Accounting & Inventory Management
  • Maintain standard costing system and annual cost roll processes.
  • Analyze product costs, material costs, labor costs, and manufacturing overhead.
  • Proactive costing analysis to drive process improvements and accuracy of costing.
  • Reconcile inventory sub-ledger to the general ledger.
  • Investigate inventory discrepancies and recommend corrective actions.
  • Support physical inventory counts.
Manufacturing Analysis
  • Monitor plant performance metrics and manufacturing KPIs.
  • Proactive analysis of trends and leading indicators, supporting the business and Plant Leadership with data to understand and act.
  • Partner with the Finance Director of Operations and Plant Leadership, providing sound business analytics and understanding of financials, with associated recommendations for ongoing improvements.
Budgeting & Forecasting
  • Develop weekly sales and EBITDA projections.
  • Analyze actual performance versus budget and forecast.
  • Develop annual operating plans and budgets.
Process Improvement
  • Automate reporting and streamline financial processes where possible.
  • Drive accountability across the organization to utilize Plex standard processes, while ensuring appropriate controls and oversight are in place.
Cross-Functional Support
  • Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, Purchasing, and Supply Chain teams to align business goals with financial performance.
  • Support the development of business justifications, including ROIs.
Requirements

Education
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
Experience
  • 3+ years of accounting experience, including cost accounting in a manufacturing environment.
  • Experience with standard costing and inventory accounting required.
  • ERP system experience (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Infor, Plex, etc.) preferred.
  • Experience with financial analysis and manufacturing operations.
Technical Skills
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Cost accounting principles
Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago

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