Senior Cost Accounting Analyst

$85,000 - $95,000/Yr

Ethos International Ltd - Lincoln, NE

Full-time - Mid Level

Lincoln, NE

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About the position

The Senior Cost Accounting Analyst is responsible for overseeing plant inventory valuation while assisting corporate accounting operations, ensuring inventory accuracy, analyzing standard costs, and executing internal controls and compliance. This role involves close collaboration with plant operations, engineering, and purchasing to develop, review, and maintain standard costs, and it requires timely information delivery regarding inventory cost and valuation accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Perform inventory valuations and inventory reserve calculations
• Work with Operations and Purchasing to set standard costs
• Calculation of resin-related rebates, and credits, and provide related monthly usage analysis
• Execute cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis
• Perform inventory and related account reconciliations
• Ownership of the capitalized variance calculation and intercompany margin elimination
• Ownership of annual physical inventory and development of cycle count process
• Report summary of physical inventory adjustments
• Review item master accuracy and validate expected fields are consistently populated
• Pricing and margin review and analysis
• Assist with business acquisitions and system integrations related to standard costs, bill of materials, and routings
• Review PPV and partner with other departments to resolve inventory valuation and purchase price issues
• Perform assigned month-end close duties including, but not limited to, calculating accruals, calculating overhead burden rate, entering journal entries, and reconciling general ledger accounts
• Develop gross margin reporting to identify item costing deficiencies and develop processes to fix and maintain the accuracy of inventory valuation for active items and new business acquisitions
• Assist with annual financial audit and interim audit procedures
• Assist in the implementation of internal controls including evaluating, recommending, maintaining, and monitoring appropriate internal controls
• Interact with internal and external stakeholders in responding to inquiries or Powerlink financial data reporting and ad hoc reporting requests.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting
• 6+ years of progressive accounting experience (GL, reporting, costing, public accounting)
• Must be flexible to work extended hours during month-end close and year-end close
• Manufacturing/assembly/distribution background
• CPA is a plus, but not required
• Month-end close experience including the creating and posting of journal entries
• Balance sheet reconciliation preparation

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with internal controls
• Familiarity with financial audit procedures

Benefits

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid sick time
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Referral program
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance