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Cost Accountant

test12rcmsyncas002
San Mateo, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/20/2025 CLOSED ON 3/19/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Accountant position at test12rcmsyncas002?

This position is accountable for the ongoing analysis of process constraints, target costing projects, and margin analysis.  The cost accountant must also construct and monitor those cost-effective data accumulation systems needed to provide an appropriate level of costing information to management.

Responsibilities

  • Construct data accumulation systems for a cost accounting system
  • Create and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems
  • Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses
  • Update bill of material standard costs
  • Report on breakeven points by products, work centers, and factories
  • Report on margins by product and division
  • Report on periodic variances and their causes
  • Analyze capital budgeting requests
  • Perform cost accumulation tasks as a member of the target costing group
  • Coordinate physical inventories and cycle counts
  • Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles

Qualifications

  •  3 years of accounting/finance experience, or 5 years experience in industrial engineering
  • BA/BS degree
  • Excellent analysis skills
  • Ability to collaborate with a multi-department team
  • Experience manipulating large databases.
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