Cost Accounting Manager at Creative Financial Staffing

About the Company:

Our client is a rapidly growing manufacturing organization who are looking to add an Inventory Cost Accounting Manager to their team. The company has enjoyed incredible success in the last few years' and are seeking a candidate with a similar background to join their team as they continue their expansion.

Experience of PeopleSoft and ERP implementations is required.

Reasons to Work Here:

• Hybrid-2 days in the office
• Strong medical / dental / vision
• 401k match
• Flexible spending plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistant Program
• Life insurance
• Short / Long term disability
• Growing organization
• Highly visible role and focus on promoting from within
• Large organization with a family feel culture
• $110k - $135k a year
• Hybrid

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Day-to-Day Accounting Activities: Responsible for America’s inventory accounting, including daily review and analysis of Company sales and margins and leading the month-end close of inventory and related accounts. The Inventory Cost Accounting manager is responsible for analyzing and maintaining inventory reserves, reviewing month end reconciliations, as well as leading the Company’s annual physical inventory. This role interfaces with the Company’s Americas business units daily to analyze sales margins as well as to function as a resource to investigate and correct inventory related issues within the Company’s Peoplesoft ERP system.
• Process Redesign & Improvement: This role will be responsible for serving as the key liaison between IT and the business to identify and troubleshoot issues within the Peopelsoft ERP system, in addition to evaluating current processes and procedures with a lens toward streamlining cumbersome or manually intensive work.
• Teamwork: Ability to be flexible, multi-task, and effectively communicate well with the Controllers group as well as business unit Operations teams throughout the Americas.
• Annual Audit: Participate in all facets of the annual audit.
  
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, CPA preferred.
• Minimum 6 years of increasingly relevant experience with inventory cost accounting, Peoplesoft experience strongly preferred
• Strong knowledge of accounting, financial processes, internal controls, and Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Proven technical accounting skills and a strong process orientation.
• Outstanding communicator; proven ability and desire to interface cross-functionally, and with outside service providers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong knowledge of accounting and financial software systems, including Excel, Power BI and other data management capabilities.

Detail and project oriented with the ability to juggle multiple priorities.