Cost Accountant | Contract to Hire | On-site

Job title:

Cost Accountant | Contract to Hire | On-site

Company

Vaco

Job description

Our client is hiring a Cost Accountant (Contractor / Potential Contract-to-Hire) to oversee and analyze all cost expenditures related to the manufacturing processes in their facility. The Cost Accountant is responsible for managing and maintaining the cost accounting system, incorporating an understanding of manufacturing operations and generally accepted accounting principles. This position will take direction with general supervision from the Controller and requires interaction with all levels of the organization.Responsibilities-Reviews and posts daily manufacturing accounting entries.
-Reviews cost and variance trends; researching significant variations and recommending appropriate response.
-Prepares daily operating performance analysis; including inventory movements, sales, and cost of goods sold, to identify significant issues in a timely fashion.
-Responsible for developing and maintaining the financial cost reports necessary to fully explain standard and gross margin analyses and the variances to planned results.
-Reviews and monitors all manufacturing cost aspects including material, labor and overhead, price-volume-mix analyses as well as efficiency, productivity and spend variances.
-Performs monthly inventory valuation and reconciliation of cost ledgers.
-Evaluates and approves cost review requests, including operating impact analysis.
-Acts as the finance lead for annual physical inventory and monthly cycle counts; work with the operational resources responsible for these processes to assure timely and accurate financial reporting implications
-Prepare and maintain standard adjusting journal entries with related support as relates to operational cost accounting and monthly inventory book to perpetual
– Manages and maintains excell and obsolete inventory analysis and calculations.
-Support external audit and tax preparation functions as relates to cost accounting
-Month-end close procedures as assigned.
-Prepares and monitors operating forecasts based on budgets.
-Establishes labor and overhead rates in line with operating budgets.
-Performs annual cost roll and inventory revaluation. Works with purchasing and operations management to enhance accuracy of cost components.
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Experience/Education/Qualifications
-Bachelor s degree in Accounting, Finance or any related field
-5+ years supporting a manufacturing business
-Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office, specifically Excel
-5+ years of Cost accounting
-5+ years using ERP systems

Expected salary

$40 – 50 per hour

Location

Indianapolis, IN

Job date

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 06:23:21 GMT

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