Cost Accountant

Location: Jacksonville, FL 32216

Reports To:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Perform month end close activities.
  • Prepare and post journal entries
  • Prepare and analyze account reconciliations
• Prepare various financial analysis related to manufacturing costs, inventory, and reserve information.
• Monitor cost standard performance to make sure costs are in line with budget cost parameters and revise if necessary.
• Maintain and improve processes and controls associated with manufacturing costs and inventory valuation.
• Provide management with cost estimates for new products and provide the cost impact for changes to existing processes or process locations.
• Make recommendations for efficiency improvements and cost reductions based on analysis.
• Work with Controller and Plant Manager to improve financial status by analyzing results monitoring variances and trends.
• Annually update cost standards on mainframe for product routings, wage and OH rates, material usages and direct labor hours/k by operation and product line.
• Provide financial cost analysis of performance to standard and recommend actions to eliminate any discrepancies.
• Correspond with departments to ensure proper accounting for purchases and expenses.
• Conducts physical inventories and monitors cycle count program.
• Reconciles finished goods inventories.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting/Finance.
•   5 + years of experience in accounting; cost accounting experience in manufacturing preferred.
• Computer skills: Strong knowledge of Excel including pivot table creation and Microsoft Office Products.  Prefer experience with Oracle database systems.
• Analytical skills: strong math and analytical skills.
• Verbal/communication: able to read and understand technical reports, process specifications, and office correspondence.  Able to write clear and understandable memos and reports.
• Strong grasp of GAAP accounting and general accounting concepts.