Operations Cost Accountant

About the position

The Operations Cost Accountant is a key member of the production accounting team, providing regular and ad hoc support to the Operations Controller and Operations Accountants. Duties includes managing and monitoring costing integrity reports, investigating unexpected SKU costing, producing and monitoring inventory reports (volume and cost) and tracking costs associated with 3rd party production to support invoicing. This position will be hybrid with 3 days in our Corporate office in Louisville with optional 2 days remote.

Responsibilities

• Completes PDS plan to improve skills and performance utilizing PDS as tool to drive optimal performance and measure progress. Promote and support Company culture within the finance organization.
• Ensure costing analysis and costing integrity reports are generated timely and accurately. Work with Operations Accountants to ensure report exceptions are followed up on and resolved as needed. Complete assigned month end reporting schedules for management.
• Maintain Costing KPI's to support the Operations Controller. This includes ensuring appropriate metrics are maintained and reported timely, and deviations are flagged and investigated. Work with Operations Controller to establish KPI targets and track performance against target.
• Work closely with Operations Controlling and Operations leaders to highlight opportunities, track progress and to flag performance challenges in order to deliver on the Company's annual cost plan.
• Become an expert on Company inventory costing system and processes. Support leadership in investigating unusual or unexpected results caused by SKU costing.
• Drive continuous improvement of daily, weekly and month inventory costing integrity reports. Ensure reports are appropriately designed for their intended purpose, and ensure the Operations Accountants are completely improvements timely. Find trends and opportunities in performance that can be leveraged for material growth opportunities and/or cost reductions.
• Support the Operations Controlling group by researching Bill of Materials issues. Ensure BOM's are completely accurately.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or Accounting or relevant experience.
• Ability to quickly learn new systems/processes
• Working knowledge of MS Office Products (Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Detail Oriented
• 2 years accounting experience (minimum)

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with System 21 ERP software
• Manufacturing systems experience
• 2 years cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment (minimum)