Supervisory Responsibility:
This position has direct reports.
Summary / Objective:
Performs as Plant Cost Accountant to design, implement, and maintain plant cost controls and reports. This includes reporting of monthly results, budget/forecast development and implementing and monitoring cost controls.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent education/work experience.
- 5 + years of work experience in a professional accounting position in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
- Must be in current position minimum of 6 months.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Must have working knowledge of general accounting functions, cost accounting, forecast creation, and experience working with a plant unit cost system.
Competencies:
- Willingness to follow recommended procedures, honesty, patience, flexibility, ability to work within a team environment.
Physical Demands:
- Demands associated with working in a fast paced, high stress environment.
Essential Functions:
- Prompt, regular, and dependable attendance is an essential function of this job.
- Drives optimal financial performance within manufacturing operations by identifying and implementing process improvements that enhance productivity, increase efficiency, reduce costs, capitalize on growth opportunities, and sustain best-in-class operational standards.
- Designs, modifies, and maintains Plant Cost Accounting System.
- Prepares the site annual operating budget, revised budget, and final forecast under the direction of the Plant Controller.
- Analyze site performance versus plan and makes recommendations to Management for improvements.
- Maintains site cost accounting procedures.
- Provides other company units with related information required by them to fulfill their assigned responsibilities.
- Advise on the proper coding of invoices as needed.
- Keeps abreast of current trends and practices in field of expertise. Assumes other special activities and responsibilities from time to time as directed.
- Works closely with other departments to accurately forecast monthly production costs.
- Works closely with cost center managers to control spending within the approved budget.
- Additional assignments as deemed necessary by management.