What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cost Accountant position at Robert Half?
Robert Half is looking for a cost accountant to join our client! This critical Cost Accountant role is responsible for the ongoing analysis of product cost, development of new product cost and margin analysis. This role will also establish customer pricing by working closely with the sales teams and senior financial management team. Are you a talented Cost Accountant looking for a position with a company experiencing substantial growth? Then this may be the role for you.
How you will make an impact
- Analyze projects and data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases, inventory, and labor usage, waste
- Assemble reports that specify and compare factors that affect prices and profitability of products or services
- Analyze any changes in goods or services provided in order to determine what effect it has on the cost
- Maintain the cycle count program and take physical inventory
- Help prepare general ledgers and assist in audits
- Perform variance analysis, including Purchase Price to Cost variance, cost revaluation, Invoice to PO price variances and work order variances
- Recommend costs and cost savings based on analysis
- Create and manage the cost accounting system, documents, and records of the organization
- Examine manufacturing costs and prepare regular reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs
- Make calculations of new and proposed product costs
- Examine the data collected and log a detailed record of the results
- Abide by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for financial statements
- Perform internal cost audits
- Put into action a standard costing methodology for domestic plants
Requirements
- Highly capable of analyzing financial data and quickly creating accurate reports
- Knowledge of organizational accounting concepts
- Detailed and have the ability work independently
- Strong knowledge of cost management methodologies, activities, and cost pools based on direct and indirect cost rates
- Very detail oriented and expert analytical thinking skills
- Bachelors degree in accounting or related field
- 2 years of Cost Accounting work experience
How you will make an impact
- Analyze projects and data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases, inventory, and labor usage, waste
- Assemble reports that specify and compare factors that affect prices and profitability of products or services
- Analyze any changes in goods or services provided in order to determine what effect it has on the cost
- Maintain the cycle count program and take physical inventory
- Help prepare general ledgers and assist in audits
- Perform variance analysis, including Purchase Price to Cost variance, cost revaluation, Invoice to PO price variances and work order variances
- Recommend costs and cost savings based on analysis
- Create and manage the cost accounting system, documents, and records of the organization
- Examine manufacturing costs and prepare regular reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs
- Make calculations of new and proposed product costs
- Examine the data collected and log a detailed record of the results
- Abide by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for financial statements
- Perform internal cost audits
- Put into action a standard costing methodology for domestic plants
Requirements
- Highly capable of analyzing financial data and quickly creating accurate reports
- Knowledge of organizational accounting concepts
- Detailed and have the ability work independently
- Strong knowledge of cost management methodologies, activities, and cost pools based on direct and indirect cost rates
- Very detail oriented and expert analytical thinking skills
- Bachelors degree in accounting or related field
- 2 years of Cost Accounting work experience
Salary : $90,000 - $120,000
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