What are the responsibilities and job description for the COST ACCOUNTANT position at Joseph s Gourmet Pasta Company?
Job Summary/ Primary purpose of this position:
The Cost Accountant has a key role in ensuring that manufacturing costs are appropriately controlled, and new items are costed appropriately. This role is responsible for generating product costings, setting up new items and BOM’s, reporting of facility KPI’s, and the development of manufacturing standards. This role interfaces both with senior management and with the broader manufacturing organization.
Reports to / Supervision Received:
Controller
Essential Functions:
Prepare and distribute daily, weekly, and monthly operations performance scorecards and KPI’s.
Review material variance on a daily basis to ensure data accuracy, process consumption corrections if necessary.
Prepare cost standards for material, labor and plant overhead.
Ensure data integrity in the ERP systems and maintain item set-ups, BOM’s, Routings and supporting data.
Participate in month end and year end close activities.
Assist in inventory reconciliations as assigned.
Participate in year-end physical inventory.
Generate detailed product costings for new items and review of existing items.
Prepare and analyze various reports such as marginal contribution and COGS by sku.
Distribute weekly reports to sales team.
Produce detailed, professional communications both to senior management and to peers.
Contribute to the preparation of annual budget.
Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skill and Experience:
Broad understanding of all accounting functions
Broad understanding of ingredients and management of perishables
Broad understanding of manufacturing capabilities and constraints.
Knowledgeable at interpreting BOM’s, recipes and batching constraints
Knowledge of Navision Dynamics or other ERP packages with a high degree of comfort handling data.
Advanced excel skills required; must understand formula construction, pivot tables, data types.
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of instructions in mathematical, verbal, or written form.
Able to deal with multiple variables and imperfect data sources.
Education Required:
Bachelor’s Degree required in Business, Accounting, Finance, Operations Management, or related field.
Experience in food manufacturing preferred.
Must be very skilled in Microsoft Office Application.
Minimum Experience Required:
Entry level up to 5 yrs experience