*Hybrid (3 days a week on-site)*
Job Summary: The Cost Accounting Supervisor will oversee, review, and coordinate the activities of the Cost Accounting Department. This includes training and developing staff to maintain high efficiency, competency, and flexibility.
Job Description:
Cost Accounting:
- Coordinate and review journal entries and analyses.
- Oversee Corporate product costing, cost analyses, Distribution Facilities’ throughput, accruals, and other exhibits in the monthly Costing Package.
- Supervise the Sales/Cost Ton reconciliation and terminal inventory reconciliations.
- Prepare and issue various management reports, including Scorecard, Miscellaneous Expense, LCM, Consolidated Inventory Report, Shrink Reserve, Natural Gas Variances, and Purchased Finished Goods.
- Participate in updating material standards.
- Maintain compliance with SOX and other internal controls.
- Analyze freight in and out expenses.
- Review departmental balance sheet account analysis.
- Coordinate and review special projects, providing assistance as needed.
- Manage quarterly and year-end audit closing schedules, monitoring progress.
- Research and document improvements to current methods and procedures.
- Promote analytical skills across the finance team.
- Investigate and implement process changes to enhance internal controls and efficiency, with approval.
- Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, and process oversight for cost accounting.
- Clarify roles and responsibilities to help meet company objectives and fulfill corporate goals.
- Empower and promote responsibility and authority, enabling others to learn, grow, and make decisions to achieve departmental objectives.
- Address training needs to ensure compliance with GAAP.
- Foster strong relationships within the department and with other departments through effective communication.
- Encourage cross-involvement between individuals and groups within the matrix organizational structure.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or equivalent.
- CPA preferred.
- Five or more years of progressive accounting experience, with supervisory and cost accounting experience preferred.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and administrative skills.
- Ability to effectively interact with a wide range of individuals across the organization.
- Proficiency in PC use in a Windows environment, with working knowledge of Excel and Word.
Internal Controls:
- Establish and implement processes and procedures to meet departmental internal control requirements.
- Ensure adherence to established processes and procedures.
- Collaborate with the Internal Controls Department to identify deficiencies, need for new processes/procedures, and the extent of compliance.
- Develop and implement corrective actions for department internal controls as necessary.
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