Senior Cost Accountant - Ledgent Finance & Accounting
Denver, CO
About the Job
Job Description
- Bachelor's in Accounting, Master's is a plus
- 5 - 7 years of cost accounting and financial reporting experience, preferably in manufacturing environment
- CPA preferred
- Attention to detail, and analytical skills
- Effective teamwork, and communication skills
- Experience in cost accounting and/or inventory accounting management
- Experience with energy industry and/or public companies
- Strong with Excel
- Experience with Oracle Cloud, preferred
Indicators & Attributes for Success:
- Effective and decisive decision-making skills
- Attention to detail
- Cultural awareness
- Business acumen
- Customer/Client focus
- Critical evaluation
- Positive attitude
- Organizational and prioritization skills
- Communication skills
- Accountability
- Ethical practice
- Patience
- Flexibility
- Must be sensitive to Corporate needs, employee goodwill and the business needs.
- Assists in aspects of monthly close, including preparing journal entries, account reconciliations, and advanced account analysis.
- Owns full cycle cost accounting process, including cost allocation, analysis, and tracking.
- Identifies and analyzes cost variances and provides explanations around deltas to budget/expectations.
- Identifies and develops efficiencies in cost accounting workflow.
- Develops and enhances monthly reporting, trend analysis, and analytics on inventory balances, age, quality status, and other metrics throughout the organization. Develops appropriate follow-up and disciplines to promote data integrity.
- Develops, analyzes, and maintains cost rates and processes for Personnel, Freight, Overhead, etc. Provides monthly analysis around deltas, and proposes rate adjustments as needed with proper justification and documentation.
- Works closely with the Warehouse/Receiving, Management, Corporate Accounting, Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality groups on inventory valuation, processing and validation methods and policies.
- Cost Accounting analysis as needed to support inventory- related queries.
- Identifies, recommends, and implements process improvements to increase efficiency and accuracy of monthly, quarterly and annual reporting.
- Other Duties: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this positio
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