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Cost Accounting Manager
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Robert Half
Lebanon, NH (In Person)
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Job Description
Robert Half is looking for a Cost Accounting Manager for a growing Cincinnati based company. The Cost Accounting Manager will perform advanced product cost analysis, prepare margin and variance reporting, and assess product costing methodologies and processes to support Operations, Finance, and Executive leadership efforts to improve the profitability of the business.. For immediate consideration please contact Jarrod Moon at (859)229-3603.
Core Responsibilities:
- Calculate and analyze all product costs, including direct materials, direct labor, fixed and variable overhead. Ensure reported cost of goods sold and inventory values are accurate. Develop and implement plans to address inaccuracies or errors.
- Develop the system, methodology, and procedures to improve accuracy of product costs to enable better pricing and investment decision-making by commercial and financial personnel. Work with operators, supervisors, and Operations leadership to implement any process changes required to improve accuracy of product costs.
- Analyze all manufacturing costs, identify savings opportunities, and work directly with Operations leadership and personnel to realize the savings.
- Evaluate and assign labor, variable, and fixed overhead rates to products. Ensure costs are accurately assigned to the product, recorded in the general ledger, and reflected in the product cost. Develop ongoing reporting to quickly identify errors.
- Develop models to accurately forecast and plan product costs and operations expenses. Support commercial and operation leadership budget and forecast processes.
- Compile monthly product cost information, maintain a historical database, and develop reporting to track cost changes.
- Review, analyze and report on company gross margins. Complete price, volume, mix, and cost analysis to explain variances to budgets, forecasts and prior periods.
- Work with Operations leadership to determine, recommend, and implement cost-effective solutions to operational issues and challenges.
- Support cost control efforts and develop reporting to track actualization of anticipated savings.
- Evaluate inventory levels, order rates, and backlog to support decisions on production planning, material purchasing, direct and indirect labor hiring, and discretionary spending.
- Assess inventory for excess and obsolescence.