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Senior Cost Accountant
5605 Hiatus Rd Tamarac, FL 33321 US
Job Description
Rezult continues to make great strides toward enhancing the financial community nationwide. We are consistently looking for qualified professionals to join us in achieving success. Currently we are searching for a Senior Cost Accountant to fulfill an immediate vacancy.
This individual will be responsible for:
The Senior Cost Accountant is primarily responsible for the inventory costing, accuracy, processes, month end close, and analysis. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record performing cost accounting functions in an operational/manufacturing environment working with Corporate and Production Management personnel. This person is adept at researching, compiling, analyzing, and interpreting data. This position reports directly to the Cost Accounting Manager.
- Partners with key internal customers (i.e. operations, manufacturing, purchasing, marketing, and Engineering)
- Own costing at both plant and item level
- Review departmental expenses monthly including the preparation and review of monthly management reports as well as special/ad-hoc reporting projects
- Applies cost accounting principles to establish and maintain standard costs, labor, overhead, and add on rates
- Analyze manufacturing margins, cost information, absorptions and variances in SAP
- Utilize SAP to maintain master data, understanding underlying report data sources
- Ensures inventory is properly valued including assessment of variances and inventory reserves
- Tracks and compare inventory results with general ledger balances
- Oversees inventory cycle count process
- Be the on-site point person for back-office process questions
- Work closely with the central controllership function and other various off-site corporate departments to implement processes and controls locally on-site
- Reviews inventory dispositions and adjustments
- Provides management with reports and suggests actions for improvement
- Participates in period-end and year end close process
- Assists in capital project scope and planning (manufacturing), and preparing financial justification
- Assist with audit requests from external auditors
- Document workflow and work procedures
- Periodic travel to the US may be required - Up to 4 to 6 trips per year
We are actively speaking with applicants that have a minimum of:
- 5+ years cost/inventory operational (meaning they're in the field, in the trenches!) accounting experience required
- Bachelor's Degree required, with a concentration in Business, Accounting, Finance or Engineering; CPA/CMA/CA a plus
- 3+ yrs. prior experience in a cost accounting manufacturing environment required
- Experience with Cost Accounting & Inventory Management a plus
- Experience with SAP required. SAP implementation is a plus. MS Excel experience required!
Toyota Production experience is a huge plus!
Must understand and have experience with standard costing, activity rates, bill of materials, routings, absorption variance analysis, and overhead allocations
