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Senior Cost Accounting Analyst, Remote - United States

Summary

The Senior Cost Accounting Analyst will oversee plant inventory while assisting corporate accounting operations, inventory accuracy, analyzing standard costs, and executing internal controls and compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting
• 3+ years of progressive accounting experience (GL, reporting, costing, public accounting)

Responsibilities

• Oversee plant inventory
• Assist corporate accounting operations
• Inventory accuracy
• Analyze standard costs
• Execute internal controls and compliance
• Perform inventory valuations and inventory reserve calculations
• Work with Operations and Purchasing to set standard costs
• Calculate resin related rebates, credits, and provide related monthly usage analysis
• Execute cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis
• Perform inventory and related account reconciliations
• Recommend changes around processes and policies to reduce cost and maximize profit
• Ownership of the capitalized variance calculation and intercompany margin elimination
• Ownership of annual physical inventory and development of cycle count process
• Report summary of physical inventory adjustments
• Review item master accuracy and validate expected fields are consistency populated
• Pricing and margin review and analysis
• Monitor inventory transactions for errors in unit of measure, costing and transaction type
• Assist with business acquisitions and system integrations related to standard costs, bill of materials and routings
• Review PPV and partner with other departments to resolve inventory valuation and purchase price issues
• Perform assigned month-end close duties including, but not limited to, calculating accruals, calculating overhead burden rate, entering journal entries and reconciling general ledger accounts
• Develop gross margin reporting to identify item costing deficiencies and develop processes to fix and maintain the accuracy of inventory valuation for active items and new business acquisitions
• Assist with annual financial audit and interim audit procedures
• Assist in the implementation of internal controls including evaluating, recommending, maintaining and monitoring appropriate internal controls
• Participate in system enhancements and integration efforts throughout the organization
• Interact with internal and external stakeholders in responding to inquires or Powerlink financial data reporting and ad hoc reporting requests
• Consistently support compliance by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accreditation and licensure requirements (if applicable), and the Company’s policies and procedures

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong technology skills, including proficiency with Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and ERP systems
• Ability to work in fast-paced, changing and growing environment
• Excellent verbal, written, and communication skills
• Advanced understanding of standard costs in a manufacturing environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to execute tasks independently and meet assigned deadlines in a timely manner
• Possess strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to read, write and speak English fluently