What are the responsibilities and job description for the Assistant Controller position at The Armor Group, Inc.?
JOB SUMMARY
This position is responsible for providing accounting/financial support for the divisions as assigned by ensuring accurate costing & driving profitability thru efficiencies and recommendations for improvements
Responsibilities Include but are not limited to:
Assisting in developing costing rates
- Monitoring and tracing job cost rates from actual to estimate back to the underlying activities
- Monthly cost of Quality report
- Monthly Backlog report by division
- Cost in Excess Entry
- Interfacing with supply chain to resolve variances in inventory
- Preparation of monthly slow moving inventory report
- Inventory reconciliations, deferred reconcilations.
- Prepare the monthly job profitability report for divisions as assigned
- Balance inventory reserves and suggest improvements
- Preparation of monthly warranty reserve analysis and % used verification
- Preparation of % completion page for financial packet
- Running of perpetual month end inventory reports in Epicor
- Participating in annual standard labor and fixed/burden analyses
- Deferred revenue recognition calculation
- Investigating cycle count variances and helping resolve issues
- Participate in weekly meetings led by the Division Controller with Project Managers for variance discussion of actual vs. estimate to budget.
- Assisting with monitoring, reporting and forecasting of monthly revenue and expenses.
- Prepartion of inventory reports for financial packet
- Product analysis as required
- Additional duties as assigned.
PRINCIPAL CONTACTS INSIDE/OUTSIDE THE COMPANY
This position interacts with Division Presidents, Project Managers, Engineering, Plant Management, and other Senior Management leaders as well as the accounting team.
COMPETENCY OR POSITION REQUIREMENTS
- Ability to communicate effectively with others using the spoken word and in writing
- Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
- Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.
- Excellent analysis skills
- Must be highly familiar with Armor’s products and operations
- Must have working knowledge of Activity Based Costing
- Must have job costing experience as well as % completion
- Experience with Divisional Financial Reporting
- All Armor employees are also expected to demonstrate Armor’s core values of being:
- Customer Focused
- Passionate about Work
- Solution Oriented
- Driven by Integrity
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting required
- 5-7 years previous demonstrated experience as a Plant Controller or Senior Plant Cost Accountant in a multi-plant environment
- Progressively increasing responsibility with cost accounting, standard costing, job order reporting, variance analysis, ABC (activity based costing), physical inventories, account reconciliations and audit preparation/ assistance
- CPA certification, CMA certification and/or master’s degree preferred
EQUIPMENT USED
This position will be using a personal computer, calculator, fax/copier, and telephone.
WORKING AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS
This position will be in an office setting daily.
Salary : $84,017 - $117,711