What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cost Accountant position at Korn Ferry?
Korn Ferry is partnering with a global manufacturing organization in their search for a Senior Cost Accountant.
Position Summary
The Senior Cost Accountant will support inventory valuation, manufacturing cost accounting, and financial reporting across a global, multi-entity organization. The role will partner across Finance, Operations, and ERP teams to support month-end close, analyze inventory and manufacturing variances, ensure accurate costing, and improve related processes and controls.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage inventory and manufacturing cost accounting activities and ensure accurate financial reporting
- Prepare inventory and cost accounting journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules
- Monitor inventory valuation, material usage, labor and overhead, work orders, scrap, and other manufacturing costs
- Analyze inventory, WIP, material, labor, and overhead variances and partner with Operations to resolve root causes
- Review cycle counts, inventory adjustments, and slow-moving, excess, and obsolete inventory
- Support cost maintenance and analysis, including COGS, margins, bills of material, routings, labor rates, and overhead rates
- Partner with Operations and ERP teams to resolve system and transactional issues impacting inventory and costing
- Improve cost accounting processes, internal controls, and documentation
- Support internal and external audits and related schedules
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 5 years of progressive accounting experience with significant inventory and cost accounting experience
- Manufacturing accounting experience required
- Strong knowledge of cost accounting, inventory valuation, general ledger accounting, and U.S. GAAP
- Experience supporting high-volume, multi-location and/or multi-entity manufacturing operations; global experience preferred
- Strong ERP experience, including investigating system and transactional issues impacting inventory and costing
Onsite role 5 days a week in Manor, Texas.
SE: 510810396
Salary : $100,000 - $135,000