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Cost Accountant
All, Manufacturing
Waverly, IA
$85,000 - $115,000
Location: Waverly, Iowa | Schedule: Full-time, on-site | Compensation: $85,000-$115,000
Overview
An established manufacturing company is seeking a Cost Accountant to support its accounting and operations teams. This role plays a key part in analyzing gross profit margins, balancing inventory, and reporting financial results, while partnering closely with senior finance leadership to manage company costs and develop cost standards.
What you'll do
- Assist in month-end and year-end closing of financials, specifically balancing inventory and recording monthly entries for transfers and variances
- Calculate and analyze gross profit margins, reporting results to Finance and Operations personnel
- Work with manufacturing plants on cycle count processes, labor/overhead rates, BOMs, and routings
- Apply cost analysis principles to current company processes in inventory management, gross profit, and reporting
- Analyze manufacturing costs and labor absorption, identifying variances and areas for improvement
- Assist in calculating work center rates for manufacturing facilities
- Review completed shop orders and analyze large variances, including identifying potential process changes
- Perform the annual cost roll process, including change analysis, at year-end and on an ad hoc basis
- Handle other duties, special projects, and analysis as assigned
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 5+ years of experience in accounting/finance
- Manufacturing environment experience
- Cost accounting experience required
- ERP experience with SAP, Deacom, NetSuite, or Epicor
- Demonstrated internal and/or external customer service experience and skills
- Strong verbal and written communication and word processing skills
- Familiarity with MS Office software including Word, Excel, MS Teams, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Knowledge of QuickBooks
- Knowledge of ERP systems
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Proactive self-starter with strong organizational skills
- Organized, able to prioritize, and work positively with changing priorities and deadlines
- Skills in filing and operating office machines (keyboard, photocopier, fax, shredder, calculator)
Preferred qualifications
- Accounting degree preferred
Compensation and benefits
- $85,000-$115,000
Why this role
This position offers the opportunity to work closely with the Corporate Controller and CFO on company-wide cost management, budgeting, and operational cost analysis in a manufacturing environment.
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