Sr. Cost Accountant

Robert Half
Wilmington, Per Diem
POSTED ON 10/5/2023 CLOSED ON 11/3/2023

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Cost Accountant position at Robert Half?

For more information, contact Jason Young @ (937) 637-7759


Our client, a VERY stable manufacturing company is hiring for a Sr. Cost Accountant. This critical Sr. Cost Accountant role is responsible for the ongoing analysis of product cost, development of new product cost, margin analysis and maintaining fixed assets. Our client has impeccable benefits and offers a great work/life balance.


Major responsibilities:


- Review changes in goods or services provided in order to determine what effect it has on the cost

- Develop and support the cost accounting system, documents, and records of the organization

- Ensures inventory is properly valued and all transactional inventory movement are accurately and timely recorded to produce reliable financial statements

- Assists with monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting including journal entries and reconciliations

- Manage all fixed asset process, ensuring company assets are capitalized timely, classified properly, depreciated accurately and disposed/retired correctly

- Make calculations of new and proposed product costs

- Performs weekly recording of manufacturing entries for product costing

- Support audits and general ledger preparation

- Maintain the cycle count program and take physical inventory

- Examine manufacturing costs and prepare regular reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs

- Perform variance analysis, including Purchase Price to Cost variance, cost revaluation, Invoice to PO price variances and work order variances

Salary : $75,000 - $90,000

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