Cost Accounting Supervisor - Sterling Engineering
Chesapeake, VA
About the Job
Title: Cost Accounting Supervisor
Location: Chesapeake, VA 23323
Hire Type: 6+ Month Contract (could extend, W2 only)
*Includes benefits: health, dental, vision, accrued time off, and more
Overview:
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Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Cost Accounting Supervisor or Sr Cost Accountant to aid our client on a contingent basis through an ERP implementation. This role involves supervision and will manage existing primary functions while the team implements a new ERP system.
Job Duties:
- Manage the regional cost accounting team, ensuring proper prioritization and planning of team activities, responsibilities, and accountabilities.
- Identify process inefficiencies and bottlenecks, propose and implement improvements for team and workflow optimization.
- Support the Regional Accounting Manager and Finance Business Partners with calculating standards, rates, and costing impacts on product cost.
- Oversee inventory accounting, including cycle count audits, variance identification and registration, classification of inventory and materials, and purchasing rates verification.
- Research and resolve complex cost model issues; provide guidance to the Finance Business Partner organization, including margin analysis and supporting special costing projects.
- Analyze root causes of cost model or finance issues and recommend policy or process changes for improvements.
- Participate in Project Status Reviews to identify incurred costs for accurate revenue accounting records and calculations for both Percentage-of-Completion and Point-in-Time projects.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field with 5-7 years of relevant experience.
- Strong technical accounting skills and experience in:
- Month-end reporting
- Project accounting, including monthly margin reviews and processing
- Sales and margin analysis
- Processing and approving month-end journals
- Balance sheet reconciliation preparation and approval
- Data analysis for manufacturing and cost management
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information.
Source : Sterling Engineering