Job Summary: You will manage a Regional Cost Accounting Team and provide cost accounting support and expertise to Finance Business Partners and leadership for multiple sites (locations) and Platforms (divisions), providing insight, consultation and governance over the cost accounting model.
Responsibilities & Requirements:
Manage Regional Cost Accounting Team, prioritizing and planning team activities, responsibilities and accountabilities
Focus on Team-, Process- and Efficiency-improvement, identifying issues and bottle-necks and propose changes to improve
Support the Regional Accounting Manager and Finance Business Partners in the calculation of standards, rates and/or costing standards and analyse impacts in the product cost
Inventory accounting (physical cycle counts audits and variances identifications and registration, ensure proper classification of inventory and material and purchasing rates verification and calculation)
Research, troubleshoot, and answer complex questions and advise the Finance Business Partner organization on cost model issues (including In and Out margins analysis, participates and supports project reviews, support special costing projects for customer quotations, productivity, efficiency and utilization analysis, etc.)
Explore and analyse root causes of any cost model or business finance issues and propose policy or process changes to improve work moving forward
Identify cost incurred and participate on Project Status Review in order to obtain information to be used on Revenue accounting records and calculations for both Percentage-of-Completion and Point-in-Time projects
And any other duties as assigned
Preferred Experience / Skills:
Percentage of Completion (POC) accounting experience preferred
Experience in project-based organization
Strong technical accounting skills
Good research and issue resolution skills; Proactive attitude
Ability to assess and recommend solutions for assigned projects
Ability to prioritize, plan, perform and communicate team activities both in written and verbal form
Knowledge of SAP, Oracle and/or BPC is a plus
Ability to work in decentralized matrix organizations
BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 5-7 years relevant experience
Req ID : R-8755
Job Family Group : Finance & Accounting
Job Family : FA Cost Accounting