SENIOR COST ACCOUNTANTLocation: Houston, Westplain Campus
Work Environment: On-site Monday - Friday
Work Schedule/Hours: Normal Business Hours
The base pay range for this position is $85,000 - 95,000 USD. The specific pay offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, education, and skill set.The Senior Cost Accountant will support management of the site's financial operations while serving as the standard costing specialist. The role will provide financial analysis and insights that will help drive business objectives and keep finance leadership informed of impacts associated with standard costing activities. In addition to standard costing activities, this role will support the site functional leaders, by providing financial guidance, business partnership, and decision-making support across the organization.
Responsibilities:- Prepare and execute the monthly financial close process for the local ledger. Ensure that sub ledgers are updated to general ledger accurately, completely and in a timely manner.
- Prepare and submit standard monthly management reports. Perform detailed monthly variance analysis on items in the P+L and balance sheet.
- Establish and maintain policies and procedures to ensure that all required journal entries are prepared and posted to the general ledger.
- Provide strong financial leadership and business partner support to supply chain finance, and category teams
- Forecast, track, and analyze MFG related projects, capital investment requirements, market based inflation drivers, and functional cost
- Manage the annual and ad-hoc standard cost process
- Execute the cost simulation and final execution of annual standard costing
- Maintain and be able to analyze actual vs standard manufacturing variances
- Identify continuous improvements, partner with peers to develop future state process improvements.
- Support and coordinate financial compliance efforts, including internal & external audit requirements
- Assist in managing Houston facility organization as well as other miscellaneous non-plant related activities
- Support providing financial metric insights and ad-hoc requests to Manufacturing Leadership
- Own Standard Operating Procedures and process flow charts, update periodically as changes in the processes evolve
- Support other ad-hoc projects and analysis requests for Orthopedics Supply Chain
- Maintain the fixed asset accounts and process
- Over see both accounts receivable and accounts payable
- Prepare general ledger account reconciliations and research any outstanding items
Qualifications:- A minimum of a bachelor's degree is required; a major in Accounting or Finance is preferred.
- A minimum of three (5) years of finance experience is required; equivalent knowledge of skills necessary to perform the position responsibilities preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office required.
- Advanced Excel and Presentation skills required.
- Excellent organizational, analytical, conceptual, communication and interpersonal skills are required.
- The ability to work in a dynamic environment and be able to recommend and implement process improvements and handle multiple tasks simultaneously is required.
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail are required.
- Knowledge of SAP, JDE, D365, Anaplan and/or similar financial systems preferred. SAP strongly preferred.
