Cost Accountant

This position is accountable for the ongoing analysis of process constraints, target costing projects, and margin analysis.  The cost accountant must also construct and monitor those cost-effective data accumulation systems needed to provide an appropriate level of costing information to management.

Responsibilities

• Construct data accumulation systems for a cost accounting system


• Create and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems


• Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses


• Update bill of material standard costs


• Report on breakeven points by products, work centers, and factories


• Report on margins by product and division


• Report on periodic variances and their causes


• Analyze capital budgeting requests


• Perform cost accumulation tasks as a member of the target costing group


• Coordinate physical inventories and cycle counts


• Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles

Qualifications

•  3+ years of accounting/finance experience, or 5+ years experience in industrial engineering


• BA/BS degree


• Excellent analysis skills


• Ability to collaborate with a multi-department team


• Experience manipulating large databases.