What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Accountant position at Kilcoy Global Foods North America?
Description
The Cost Accountant will perform advanced cost accounting analyses to compare estimated costs to actual costs and prepare a variety of related budget reports.
What Your Day Will Look Like
Preferred Qualifications and Education Requirements
The Cost Accountant will perform advanced cost accounting analyses to compare estimated costs to actual costs and prepare a variety of related budget reports.
What Your Day Will Look Like
- Serve as an assistant/backup role to the Operations Finance Manager
- Assist in month-end closing, analyze inventory evaluation, and inventory roll forward
- Maintain the inventory relief process of subcomponents in creating high-level parts
- Assist with the quarterly physical inventories
- Perform inventory cycle counts, and analyze variances to resolve issues
- Set up and update standard costs of manufactured goods
- Analyze cost accounting data
- Establish costs of business processes such as administration, labor, shipping, etc.
- Recommend changes to the company’s processes and policies to reduce cost and maximize profit
- Advising executives and upper management on appropriate costing based on financial data
- Recommend strategies to CFO and Operations Finance Manager
- Maintain knowledge of all current trends
- Work on special projects as required
- Other administrative duties as assigned
- Strong work ethic- Show you care about your job by working to the best of your ability.
- Respectful- Show up on time, do your job duties and treat your colleagues with kindness.
- Positivity- positive attitude gets things done.
- Teamwork- Collaborate with your team to work efficiently
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance
- Ability to apply knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles & Cost Accounting Standards
- Must be able to adapt to new and different computer programs and software to enable efficient data gathering and analysis
- Ability to research, compile, analyze and interpret data
Preferred Qualifications and Education Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance
- 2 years experience in cost accounting
- Proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Office products
- Superior knowledge of financial reporting software tools and ERP software
- Knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles & Cost Accounting Standards
