Cost Accountant - Hybrid Details

Cost Accountant - Hybrid

Dupont - Chesterfield, MO

Employment Type : Full-Time

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With general supervision and direction of senior financial team members, the Cost Account supports the finance manager in partnering with the site and appropriate functional management, promoting and protecting value for Laird, through tasks and analysis relating to budget & reforecast, capex preparation and control, ad hoc analyses and monthly reporting.

The Cost Accountant has specific responsibility for inventory, records accuracy/management reporting and accurate/meaningful product costing information for operational partners.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Ensures all cost data is up to date and accurate to enable robust management reporting and insightful analysis. This requires ensuring standard cost data in QAD as well as other supporting systems represents ‘actual costs’. Identify and resolve intercompany PPV issues.
• Identification of cost reduction/control opportunities and the provision of cost management information. This requires the collection of cost data, allocation of costs preparation of reports, and analysis of labor, equipment, depreciation, assembly or other operating expenses, ensuring that established procedures are followed.
• Support AR with inventory and invoicing corrections.
• Ensuring shop floor financial controls are adhered to and variance analysis is carried out, taking account of relevant shop floor information.
• Supports the Finance Manager in preparation of budget, variance analysis and reforecast; prepares monthly/ad hoc analysis and reports such as gross margin, project cost, cost analysis, cash flow, and product profitability and variance analyses with root causes .
• Supports month end closing including: preparation of journal entries, work order close, variance control, reconciliation of ledger accounts and other misc GL duties.
• Reconcile Bank accounts and other banking duties
• Supports calculations of CIP savings and analysis of variances.
• Supports Capex applications, carries out all accounting requirements for assets under construction and tracks Capex spending. Provides Capex forecasts to aid management decisions.
• Participate in physical stocktaking. Prepare, analyze and summarize the result of stock position, including inventory excess and obsolescence provisions. Prepares accurate valuations of period end inventory levels.
• Supports sales teams by preparing product profitability, profit comparison, margin and cost analysis with identification of where cost improvements may be made.

Your Qualification Profile:

• A good understanding of the objectives and purpose of each site department, and their requirements in respect of operating performance, cost/CAPEX information, analysis and forecasting.
• Strong cost accounting and analytical skills
• Advanced software skills, especially for Excel, database management and query software.
• Ability to present, communicate and explain financial information to operational staff and management verbally and in writing .
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent experience required
• Minimum of two years experience in accounting/costing or analysis in a manufacturing environment.

Please note this is a hybrid position. Candidates are required to live within a commutable distance to the worksite.

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