About This Role
The Cost Accountant supports the company in various accounting facets, focusing on cost analysis, financial reporting, and tax filing. This role involves managing financial routines, reconciling accounts, and preparing audit information, and requires strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
Responsibilities
- Process AR, AP, billing, and inventory for QuickBooks company
- Process material adjustments, finished goods inventory adjustments, scrap adjustments, purchase requisition approvals, credit memos, and A/R write-offs
- Perform month-end and year-end closing
- Process expense transfer and correction
- Maintain cost tables and expense queries
- Prepare cost reports and management reports
- Work with Division Office for budget setup
- Upload non-AS400 TB into AS400
- Prepare and analyze cost information/report
- Responsible for profit/loss variance analysis
- Find the root cause for cost abnormality and work with related parties to find resolution
- Reconcile accounts, monitor, and maintain major accrual balance
- Reconcile cost related accounts
- Prepare audit information and work with auditors for required reports
- Provide explanation, follow up, and adjustment for auditing purposes
- Perform annual physical inventory for internal and external auditing purpose
- Prepare tax package for Tax Department
- Prepare Sales by State Report
- File Use Tax and state sales tax
- Prepare property tax information
- Perform tax research
- Perform payment processing, including auto-deduction payments
- Review invoices and respond to vendors' payment inquiries
- Work with plant accountants to help with HQ issues
- Travel occasionally to plant locations throughout the country
- Perform other duties or special projects as assigned
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
- Strong computer proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook and PowerPoint), especially Microsoft Excel (strong analytical tools knowledge and experience, i.e. spreadsheets, formulas, pivot tables, v-lookups, etc.)
- Ability to work overtime during month-end closing and year-end closing
- Ability to travel to domestic sites and/or plant locations for physical inventory projects or other special projects as needed
- Ensure consistent, dependable attendance and demonstrate a willingness to accommodate non-standard work hours as necessary
- Capable of effectively managing job-related stress and fostering productive workplace interactions
