What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Accounting Manager position at TalentBurst, Inc.?
Cost Accounting Manager / Senior Cost Accountant
Novato, CA
12 Months
Description :
The Senior Cost Accountant for the US is a key member of the TOPS (Technical Operations) Finance team. This role supports the monthly and quarterly closing activities, audit, and inventory management. The Senior Cost Accountant is a driven, detail-oriented self-starter, who enjoys building productive relationships, has innate curiosity, enjoys problem solving, and has an eye for process improvement. The successful candidate displays technical accounting skills, solid knowledge in costing, strong analytical skills, business acumen and communication skills. To be successful in this role the candidate needs to be proactive, performance driven with a keen sense of ownership and a great team player.
Responsibilities
- Inventory Management : Manage all aspects of the inventory transactions for US produced products under the current costing process. Including raw material purchases, plant inventory transactions, Drug Substance manufacturing. Lead cycle counts process and support audit activities.
- Cost Accounting : Manage full product cost accounting. Including inventory cost adjustments, average cost analysis, inventory reserve management.
- Monthly and Quarterly closing support : Complete inventory journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance review, inventory analysis. Complete inventory reporting to support quarterly filings and audits.
- Business partnering and business process improvement : Support business partners in their daily tasks, while collaboratively seeking opportunities for continued process improvement.
- Internal control : ensure a strong internal control environment for the assigned business areas to minimize the chance of SOX and Financial Reporting exposures; support the auditing and remediation activities as needed.
- Others : Support the new ERP / SAP Implementation initiatives as needed, support other local and global ad-hoc projects as needed.
Skills :
Strong skills in technical accounting, communication, teamwork, business acumen
Minimum 3 years of Finance / Accounting or equivalent experience
Cost Accounting experience strongly preferred
Accounting experience in costing or controllership organizations required
Experience of US GAAP, Sarbanes Oxley, and internal control environment essential
Prior SAP / ERP experiences a plus
Working knowledge and skills in Oracle Manufacturing and Excel are required.
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