Cost Accountant - Direct Hire

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Cost Accountant

Location: Terre Haute, IN (On-site)

Compensation: $85,000 to $107,000/Annum + Benefits + Relocation Assistance

Job Type: Full-time

Overview:

The Cost Accountant will be responsible for helping the plant achieve its financial goals. This includes establishing costing, the monthly close process, rolling forecasts, annual planning, inventory valuation, and internal controls.

Job Duties:

• Follows and supports all Company Safety policies and procedures
• Ensures proper accounting/financial procedures and computer application systems are configured and maintained as per company requirements.
• Understand and apply core accounting principles such as debits, credits, product allocations, and accruals.
• Manage and execute the monthly closing process.
• Report the financial figures (Balance Sheet, P/L and Cash Flow) detailing assets, liabilities, and capital to summarize and interpret the projected company financial position.
• Reviews, investigates, and reports deviations on the Budget / MTP monthly preparing the correspondent set of reports, including the financial portion of the company’s KPI’s and makes recommendations regarding possible actions on the reported deviations.
• Periodic comparisons of SAP moving average vs planned purchase prices, and revaluations as needed, for purchased component inventory items
• Develop standard costs for new products
• Calculate standard costs for all products annually.
• Analysis of activity rates, work center rates, and related efficiencies
• Participates in the planning cycle including rolling forecasts.
• Ability to develop a bottom-up approach to planning and work collaboratively with all areas.
• Analyze production routings and costs.
• Variance analysis in actual production costs vs planned.
• Participates in and/or leads cost reduction and process improvement activities.
• Maintains established housekeeping standards for responsible area

Qualifications: 

• Analytical – work with complex information; Collects and researches data; Uses curiosity and experience to complement data.
• Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions; Ask the questions needed to be successful.
• Communication - Must be able to interact with all team members. Ability to actively listen; to teach; and collaborate.
• Project Management – Ability to develop project plans; manages project team activities; and be an active team member on projects.
• Manufacturing mindset – Able to understand and have interest in manufacturing processes. How are things made? What are the key areas?

Education and/or Experience: 

• Bachelors’ degree required
• 3+ years’ of related experience, preferably in a manufacturing environment.

 

Computer and Technology Skills: 

• SAP experience, especially with the FI, MM. and CO modules
• Microsoft office expertise, including creating presentations, consolidation of large sets of data, advance formula skills

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\nCompany Description

LanceSoft is rated as one of the largest staffing firms in the US by SIA. Our mission is to establish global cross-culture human connections that further the careers of our employees and strengthen the businesses of our clients. We are driven to use the power of our global network to connect businesses with the right people, and people with the right businesses without bias. We provide Global Workforce Solutions with a human touch.

Company Description

LanceSoft is rated as one of the largest staffing firms in the US by SIA. Our mission is to establish global cross-culture human connections that further the careers of our employees and strengthen the businesses of our clients. We are driven to use the power of our global network to connect businesses with the right people, and people with the right businesses without bias. We provide Global Workforce Solutions with a human touch.