Description
Senior Cost Accountant
Maple Grove, MN
Direct Hire
$100-130k
Kelly is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to work with our client, an innovative and growth-oriented manufacturing organization, on a direct hire basis. This is an excellent opportunity to join an award-winning company that continually receives accolades from its customers and is a great place to work!
The Senior Cost Accountant will:
- Investigate, analyze, and report on transactions and manufacturing variances in compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Collaborate with manufacturing and engineering
- Maintain the accuracy and reliability of BOMs and routings
- Prepare journal entries, account reconciliations, and analysis for all inventory-related activities including material consumption, labor and overhead
- Perform settlement process to cost inventory production
- Assist in the development of direct labor, absorption, and overhead rates used for annual standard cost rolls
- Assist in the preparation of weekly and monthly operational reports focusing on key performance indicators
- Analyze aged, obsolete, and excess inventory to establish reserves in accordance with corporate policy
- Maintain fixed assets ledgers and monitor status of capital projects to ensure proper accounting treatment
- Coordinate with IT department for system issues, maintenance, and development such as production, purchasing, accounts payable, accounts receivable, receiving, shipping, and other
- Collaborate with operation and supply chain teams to optimize inventory management and cost control
- Support month-end close process, including journal entries related to inventory and fixed assets
- Assist with all audits
- Prepare monthly cost reports and assist in budget preparation
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- 5+ years of experience in cost accounting
- Advanced MS Excel skills: Advance formula creation, data analysis, visualization, pivot table and charts, macro development, modelling/forecasting, database functions, power queries, dashboard creation, data integration, Excel power tools such as power pivot, power view, and power map
- Proficient in MS Office products; highly proficient with SAP
- Excellent organizational and follow-through skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong collaborator and teamwork abilities
As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.
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