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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in manufacturing cost accounting, inventory management, and operational variance analysis, with a strong focus on developing KPIs and financial reporting. Proficient in standard costing, overhead absorption, and ensuring compliance with accounting standards.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Manufacturing Cost AccountingInventory ManagementStandard CostingAdvanced Excel SkillsERP Data Analysis
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Hard Skills
Cost AccountingVariance AnalysisInventory ValuationAccount ReconciliationOperational KPIsFinancial ControlsCycle CountingScrap ManagementOverhead AbsorptionBudgeting and Forecasting
Soft Skills
Analytical JudgmentAttention to DetailOrganizational SkillsCommunication SkillsTime Management
Tools & Technologies
Infor Visual ERPMicrosoft Office SuiteAccounting SoftwareReporting ToolsFinancial Systems
Industry Keywords
ManufacturingCost Accounting StandardsFinancial ReportingOperational EfficiencyCompliance
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesERP
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Analyze material, labor, and overhead costs by location, product, work order, or process
- Investigate actual performance against standard cost, prior periods, budgets, and forecasts
- Explain material usage and purchase price variances, labor efficiency, scrap and rework, overhead absorption, and production volume impacts
- Partner with plant leaders to validate findings, develop corrective actions, and track financial results and sustainable savings
- Review bills of material, routings, labor and machine rates, and overhead allocation methods
- Develop operational KPIs and reporting for productivity, conversion costs, scrap, capacity utilization, and inventory performance
- Monitor raw materials, work in process, and finished goods
- Reconcile inventory subledgers to the general ledger and investigate valuation, quantity, and transaction discrepancies
- Strengthen cycle counting and physical inventory procedures and address recurring control weaknesses
- Analyze inventory aging, excess and obsolete stock, and reserve requirements
- Improve inventory turns, reduce excess stock, and manage working capital
- Coordinate month-end close activities, including inventory and cost accounting entries, accruals, and account reconciliations
- Prepare operational performance reviews highlighting variances, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions
- Support location budgets and forecasts and explain deviations
- Prepare and validate business cases for capital investments, capacity changes, make-versus-buy decisions, and process improvements
- Standardize costing, inventory controls, reporting, and analysis across assigned locations
- Improve ERP data quality and reporting tools; support finance system enhancements, documentation, and training
- Support internal and external audits and promote compliance with accounting standards and corporate policies
- Perform other related duties as assigned
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
- Five or more years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including direct responsibility for manufacturing cost accounting, inventory, and operational variance analysis
- Experience with standard costing, inventory valuation, overhead absorption, account reconciliations, and manufacturing financial controls
- Advanced Excel skills and experience analyzing ERP data
- Experience with Infor Visual ERP and multiple manufacturing locations preferred
- Ability to investigate beyond summary reports, connect financial results to production activity, and communicate practical recommendations to operations leaders
- Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, organization, and ability to manage competing deadlines and influence cross-functional teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Proficient in accounting and tax preparation software
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite or similar software
- Ability to travel to assigned locations
- Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk and work on a computer
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times
Benefits
Comp & perks- Full-time employment
- Exempt classification