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Celebrating 100 years in 2024, Plymouth Tube Company is a fifth-generation family-owned, precision metals manufacturer. Our products include tubing, extruded shapes, and cold-drawn shapes spanning specialty carbon, alloy, stainless steel, nickel alloy, and titanium. Headquartered in Warrenville, Illinois, with seven plants in the U.S. and one in Germany, Plymouth is known for offering industry-leading service levels and unique technical innovations.

We have a great family-based culture guided by these four values: People, Customer Focus, Community & Environment, and Long-Term Orientation. These values serve as pillars to support our mission statement: ‘We are committed to providing products and services that meet or exceed our customers' expectations.

Plymouth Tube is looking for an enthusiastic, ambitious team member to join our Finance and Accounting Department. This person must love change, be self-motivated and inspire others inside and outside the department. This individual should be able to communicate directly and openly with all levels in our organization. There will be many opportunities for thesuccessful candidate to engage their innovative and creative problem-solving skills to help move the department to the next level. It is a must that the Cost Accountant has a high degree of personal integrity in dealing with superiors, subordinates and co-workers and will represent Plymouth Tube Company in a professional manner. The successful candidate will live in both the big picture as well as in the details, desire to make an impact, and work well on a team and individually.

YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

Having the technical skills and ability to maintain all costing functions including inventory, labor hours, outside service, freight, and other costs as identified. Responsibilities will also include assisting with all accounting functions. The responsibilities of this position are to perform daily shipping, inventory, invoicing, and cost transactions. Additionally perform subsequent process improvements and costing integrity including site testing, auditing, and training of all production, inventory and costing functions.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Provide costing and invoicing functions.
• Compiling and analyzing financial information to prepare entries to accounts, such as general ledger accounts, documenting business transactions.
• Providing site period end balancing information, reconciliation, and entries.
• Providing financial decision-making tools for the management staff.
• Providing annual audit support.
• Participating in process and material audits per audit schedules.
• Maintaining daily reports, managing data integrity of production data, invoicing, rebate, credit & debit memos process and audits.
• Coordinating physical inventory cycle counts for Prime RM, WIP (in process and stockroom), and purchased finished goods. Resolves any issues and reconciles to accounts. Documents cycle counts and reconciliations.
• Managing year end physical inventory count and reconciles to financial records.
• Performing analysis and reconciliations of balance sheet accounts.
• Performing analysis of ABC cost sheets and determines appropriate cost pools and drivers to match costs to production. Completes quarterly analysis to verify accuracy.
• Assist in forecasting of monthly expenses and revenues, including actual versus budget analysis and determining reasons for variances.
• Prepare and maintain all other information associated with customer orders: i.e. on time deliveries, cycle times, yields, direct hours, etc.
• Assist in evaluation of reports and recommends new approaches, policies, and procedures to effect continual improvements in departmental functions.
• Perform other duties and assignments as assigned.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or related field; experience of 2 - 3 years preferred; equivalent combinations of education and experience considered.
• Must be a master level with Microsoft Excel and have advanced data mining abilities.
• Needs to have at least 2 - 3 years’ experience in accounting with a manufacturing facility.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU:

• Benefits effective 30 days from date of hire
• Medical, Dental and Vision, HSA, FSA
• 401k Matching, Life Insurance, STD/LTD
• 100% covered tuition reimbursement (including books & reasonable expenses)
• Wellness Program / Lifestyle Rewards / Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Paid Time Off & Holidays
• Career Arching: Plymouth allows for a great depth & breadth of knowledge in which you can wear many hats and be exposed to several opportunities.

COMPETENCIES/DESIRED CHARACTERISTICS

• Care & Commitment: Consistently reliable, follows work instructions, investigates any inconsistencies and looks ahead to next steps. Offers ideas for improvements (safety, operations, process, and quality) and actively participates in improvement processes. Accepts change as part of future state improvement and adapts with positive enthusiasm.
• Team Player: Steps up to help the team even when it’s outside of normal duties or comfort zone, looks out for the safety of self and team. Cooperates with others without dominating the group, values team members for their contributions and professional abilities, and always treats people with respect. Communicates ideas respectfully, honestly and clearly, and considers the suggestions and opinions of others
• Customer Focus: Seeks out information on customer requirements, stops a process when an inconsistency is suspected, and reports inconsistencies to the right person. Involves customers and seeks best resource before moving forward with key decisions; follows through on promises made to internal/external customer. Delivers accurate product, services and paperwork to the next operation.
• Initiative: Initiates problem solving to address issues, acts without being told or directed, actively participates in resolution, seeks best alternative even if it challenges the status quo. Does and says the right things for the right reasons even when it’s uncomfortable, speaks up immediately when seeing a safety hazard, a process error, or problem to resolve. Acts with sense of urgency: Gives immediate attention to tasks or issues that prevent organization from reaching goals, rethinks priorities and organizes work to achieve goals or get goals back on track.

Additional Competencies

• Judgment: Uses common sense when discerning priorities, demonstrates sound decision making when approaching decisions with critical impact. Grasps business cycle and its requirements, is process and detail oriented, absorbs new information quickly. Earns trust of others, does not cut corners ethically, does what is “right” not what is expedient.
• Involvement: Works effectively with all levels of organization to help them understand metrics and organizational data, interpreting into a relatable format. Improves costs and/or spending by analyzing, making suggestions in production and non-production categories. Provides leadership for special projects and/or any cost cutting problem solving events, adept at running meetings.
• Technical Knowledge: Identifies problems, gathers data, and seeks alternatives through research and opinions/ experiences of others. Most effective in following through on solution, tracking results, reporting changes, challenges, or improvements to the appropriate person. Demonstrates effective use of resources (time, money, people, equipment, etc.). Demonstrates proficiency in the technical requirements of this position and in many aspects of technology, continues to improve skills in this area.
• Negotiations & Persuasion: Demonstrates mindfulness, creativity, and sincerity in negotiating, always toward a collaborative outcome in the best interest of all parties. Demonstrates effectiveness in salvaging tense negotiations and resolving interpersonal or organizational conflicts. Exhibits effective and appropriate persuasion in change efforts, is viewed as credible by others throughout the organization.
• Organization & Planning: Plans, organizes, schedules in an efficient productive manner, focuses on key priorities, effectively juggles multiple tasks. Spends time on today’s priorities, as well as preparing and planning. Is on time and on schedule, does not miss deadlines, and communicates any issue before missing a commitment.
• Communication: Demonstrates a helpful and resourceful attitude with all vendors, customers, and employees. Is respectfully persistent when needing information from others and follows through on any verbal or written commitment made to others. Keeps people informed and up to date, gives thought to “who” needs to be told “what” and helps others (vendors, customers, and employees) recognize the chain of communication.

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Physical Demands

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Such accommodation will be reviewed by management on a case-by-case basis. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.

Work Environment

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Such accommodation will be reviewed by management on a case-by-case basis. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk, use hands to grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.

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Equal Opportunity Employer: Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $63,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k) 3% Match
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Application Question(s):

• This position is located in WInamac, IN. and does not include relocation. Are you within driving distance of the location?
• This position you to have at least 2 years experience in a manufacturing environment. Do you have at least 2 years experience in a manufacturing environment?

Experience:

• Accounting: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: In person