What are the responsibilities and job description for the Site Accountant position at Avon Protection?
The Site Accountant position is responsible for standard cost accounting and reporting, monthly inventory close, inventory reserves, bill of materials, and cost analysis to maintain accurate costing data and procedures. During month end this role will also work with the finance team to process close in a timely fashion. Will also liaison with manufacturing operations and financial staff, as required.
Core Duties and Responsibilities:
- Updates and maintains records for the labor and overhead rates, and bills of materials and routings to ensure product costs are accurate and accounted for properly
- Audits bills of materials and routings ensure bill of material and costing accurately reflect production operations and perform time studies
- Ensures timely and accurate input of price changes
- Ensures the accuracy of inventory and reported results and assists with the inventory cycle counts
- Calculates and maintains the inventory reserves files
- Reviews labor reporting and costs, material costs, manufacturing overheard, freight costs, and returns
- Maintains accurate cost accounting records correcting any errors and discrepancies as required each month by performing analysis, taking corrective actions, and/or making recommendations to management
- Ensures that all financial transactions, transmissions, and reporting are completed on a timely basis and are accurate
- Assists with benchmarking, key performance indicators, dash boards for measuring financial and operating performance, and with complex decision-making initiatives
- Supports management on plant production and costing issues, provides recap with actions to be taken, and assists with operations meetings as necessary
- Assists with documentation, procedures and other workflows, analyzing purchasing contracts costs components, analyzing costs initiatives and cost efficiencies, and with the yearend inventory physical counts
- Updates and maintains the tooling amortization files and monthly journal entries
- Ensures adherence to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and internal controls
- Helps prepare forecasts, annual and strategic plans, pro forma, and other financial scenarios
- Supports monthly and yearend close, yearend audit, journal entries, account analysis, and reconciliations including intercompany
- Maintains fixed assets records, including depreciation schedule
- Maintains and balances an interrelated group of accounts and subsidiary accounts in compliance with applicable legal requirements
- Assists with account reconciliations
- Review, assess, execute and streamline policies, procedures, and controls
- Monitor intercompany recharges to ensure these are complete, accurate and transacted on a timely basis.
- Ensure intercompany balance sheet and profit/loss accounts are fully reconciled and confirmed with counterparty entities.
- Review of weekly cash reconciliation between bank and book values.
- Review of month end bank reconciliations, ensuring these are completed in full and all differences appropriately cleared.
- Other Treasury projects and initiatives
- Support US Government reporting as required
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Minimum Required Qualifications:
Knowledge, Skills & Ability:
- Comprehensive knowledge of accounting in a manufacturing environment
- Knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
- Knowledge of financial statement preparation
- Knowledge of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems
- Proficiency in Excel skills, including v/x-lookup, index/match, pivot tables, sorting, filtering, and formatting
- Analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to research technical accounting issues
- Effective interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Excellent attention to detail skills with the ability to execute accurate transactions
- Ability to prioritize tasks and manage time
- Ability to work independently and in a team environment
- Knowledge of LEAN manufacturing and accounting methods
Education / Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent experience
- Minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience, preferably in defence industry
- FAR/DFAR experience a plus
About Avon Technologies:
We design and produce life-critical personal protection solutions for the world’s militaries and first responders. With a portfolio that includes Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (“CBRN”), protection. We do this through our two brands, Avon Protection and Team Wendy. Our mission is to provide unparalleled protection for those who protect us, giving them the confidence to tackle challenging situations and helping them get home safe. At Avon Technologies, we recognize that our success relies on the collective efforts of our talented team. As an organization, we welcome individuals who embody our #FIERCE company values - fearlessness, integrity, excellence, resilience, collaboration, and the ability to execute.
What We Offer:
- Flexible Schedule
- Competitive Compensation Package
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
- 401k Matching
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Learning and Development Initiatives
This job description is not intended, and should not be construed, to be an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserved the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.
Responsibilities of this position may include direct and/or indirect physical or logical access to information, systems, technologies subjected to the regulations/compliance with U.S. Export Control Laws.
U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens.
To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within Avon that may present access to export controlled technical data, Avon must assess employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s).
The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at Avon's sole election.
U.S. Export Control laws and U.S. Government Department of Defense contracts and sub-contracts impose certain restrictions on companies and their ability to share export-controlled and other technology and services with certain "non-U.S. persons" (persons who are not U.S. citizens or nationals, lawful permanent residents of the U.S., refugees, "Temporary Residents" (granted Amnesty or Special Agricultural Worker provisions), or persons granted asylum (but excluding persons in nonimmigrant status such as H-1B, L-1, F-1, etc.) or non-U.S. citizens.
To comply with these laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within Avon that may present access to export controlled technical data, Avon must assess employees' U.S. person status, as well as citizenship(s).
The questions asked in this application are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at Avon's sole election.
Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without a sponsorship for employment visa status (e.e. H1B status).
The anticipated salary range for candidates who will work in Cadillac, MI is between $85,000 and $110,000 annually. The final salary offered to a 5successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, type and years of experience within the industry, education, etc.
EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
Salary : $85,000 - $110,000
