- Develop and maintain a cost accounting system that ensures accurate costing.
- Produce daily production, variance, and ad hoc reports.
- Review and analyze standard and actual costs for variances and prepare reports.
- Update standard costs and ensure accuracy in the Bill of Materials (BOM's).
- Prepare, analyze, and report monthly gross margin analysis by customer, part number, and production jobs.
- Analyze changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods, or services to determine effects on costs.
- Study and collect data to determine the costs of business activities such as raw material purchases, inventory, and labor.
- Responsible for account reconciliation, analyzing inventory for risk, and monitoring with support from internal stakeholders.
- Responsible for month-end and year-end closing by analyzing inventory and preparing supplemental reports as needed.
- Ensure compliance with internal controls and proper documentation of processes.
- Owns the month-end General Ledger close process for plant including close timelines, creation and posting of journal entries, and reporting.
- Preparation of documents for quarterly review and annual audit.
- Month-end balance sheet accounts for reconciliations.
- Partnering with FPA/ procurement to review material costs and other analytics.
- Performing monthly closing activities including preparation of manufacturing variances along with supporting analysis.
- Developing metrics and tracking systems for major cost drivers.
- Profitability analysis regarding quoting and costing.
- Comparing standard cost to actual cost and identifying and explaining variances by customer, part number, and production jobs.
- Providing management with reports that specify and compare factors that affect prices and profitability of products or services.
Solid experience +7 years in manufacturing costing- Automotive background.Proficiency in Excel, and experience in manipulating large databases is a plus.Significant hands-on experience using an integrated ERP system ( ORACLE preferred).Solid understanding of manufacturing operations, inventory, and cost accounting.Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and problem solving skills.