Senior Cost Accounting Analyst

Job title:

Senior Cost Accounting Analyst

Company

Food Management Search

Job description

Job Title: Senior Cost Accounting Analyst
Location: Minneapolis, MNSalary: $80-90KJob Summary of the Senior Cost Accounting Analyst: The Senior Cost Accounting Analyst is responsible for overseeing plant inventory valuation while assisting corporate accounting operations, inventory accuracy, analyzing standard costs, and executing internal controls and compliance. The Inventory Cost Accounting Senior Analyst will partner with plant operations, engineering, and purchasing to develop, review, and maintain standard costs. The Inventory Cost Accounting Senior Analyst is an individual contributor who will interact closely with manufacturing, purchasing, new product development, and finance to deliver timely information about inventory cost and valuation accuracy while establishing a workflow for item master accuracy.Qualifications of Senior Cost Accounting Analyst:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting
• 6+ years of progressive accounting experience (GL, reporting, costing, public accounting)
• Must be flexible to work extended hours during month-end close and year-end close.
• Manufacturing/assembly/ distribution background
• Infor XA system experience a plus
• CPA is a plus, but not required
• Month-end close experience including the creating and posting of journal entries
• Balance sheet reconciliation preparation

Responsibilities of the Senior Cost Accounting Analyst:

• Perform inventory valuations and inventory reserve calculations
• Work with Operations and Purchasing to set standard costs
• Calculation of resin-related rebates, and credits, and provide related monthly usage analysis
• Execute cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis
• Perform inventory and related account reconciliations
• Recommending 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 inquiries 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

Expected salary

$80000 – 90000 per year

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Job date

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 08:19:13 GMT

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