Division Controller

Adam Wood with Robert Half Finance and Accounting is assisting a growing manufacturing company with their search for an experienced Senior Cost Accountant to join their team.

Primary responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and maintain the cost accounting system.

• Oversee the cost system for accuracy, completeness, timeliness, and quality.

• Collect data, allocate cost, and prepare reports on labor, assembly, or other operating expenses ensuring established procedures are followed, including OH rates and factors.

• Perform inventory adjustments, transfers and conversions.

• Reconcile inventories for all locations periodically and prepare journal entries

• Perform closing duties such as cost allocation entries, landed cost (freight and duty/tariff) and inventory reconciliations.

• Prepare various month-end reports and assist with the month-end review.

• Review manufacturing variances, ensuring that impacts to the general ledger are booked correctly at the project and GL level.

• Perform analysis and prepare special reports.

• Coordinate all physical inventory and cycle counts company-wide, including various warehouses and 3PL locations

• Investigate cycle counting variances and resolve issues.

• Act as liaison to auditors for all inventory and manufacturing concerns.

• Coordinate with other teams to assure timely and accurate operations between the financial functions.

• Ad hoc projects as assigned.

Qualifications:

• 4-6 years of recent experience in inventory valuation and cost accounting

• Strong Excel skills

• 3-5 years’ experience using NetSuite ERP

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills

• Ability to understand the manufacturing environment and the associated financial processes; Knowledge of supply chain, receiving, inventory flow, operations process, and manufacturing principles

• Strong ability to assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem

• Ability to effectively analyze transactional level detail in an enterprise resource planning system and articulate the key findings to management

• Strong business skills and effective understanding of financial, distribution and manufacturing systems

• Ability to multi-task and drive actions to completion under strict deadlines.

• Must be able to collaborate and build positive relationships with other teams cross-functionally to make recommendations, implement process improvements effectively.

• Positive "can do" attitude; enjoys challenges.

• Detail-oriented and comfortable working with large data sets

• Action-oriented with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of recent experience in cost accounting and inventory valuation

• Strong Excel skills

• NetSuite ERP experience (or experience with another large corporate ERP system)

• Strong analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills

• Ability to understand the manufacturing environment and the associated financial processes; Knowledge of supply chain, receiving, inventory flow, operations process, and manufacturing principles

• Strong ability to assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem

• Ability to effectively analyze transactional level detail in an enterprise resource planning system and articulate the key findings to management

• Strong business skills and effective understanding of financial, distribution and manufacturing systems

• Ability to multi-task and drive actions to completion under strict deadlines.

• Must be able to collaborate and build positive relationships with other teams cross-functionally to make recommendations, implement process improvements effectively.

• Positive "can do" attitude; enjoys challenges.

• Detail-oriented and comfortable working with large data sets

• Action-oriented with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

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