Cost Accounting Manager
Industry: Health and Safety
Location: Mission Viejo, California
Date Posted: January 26, 2012
General Position Summary:
The Cost Accounting Manager is responsible for overseeing all the cost functions for the company and the ERP system. This includes preparing and directing the implementation of cost accounting methods and activities. Oversight of the cost control systems, managing and interpreting cost audits, and preparing cost accounting reports. Manage material requisition process. |
Essential Functions/Major Responsibilities:
Cost Accounting Management
- Product Costing: develop the annual standard costs based on budget, calculate current costs for forecasts, provide cost simulation for the product, for change in process and product, and for long term business plan.
- Product costing system: define and implement variable cost versus fixed cost in the system, manage the interfaces of product costing between accounting and engineering/production
- Develop and implement a variance analysis system: between actual and budget, actual and forecasts for materials (price, volume, substitution, usage) labor (rate, efficiency, and productivity), overhead (volume, spending), subcontracting (volume, price)
ERP Systems Management
- Provide QAD functional support for QAD users
- Serve as liaison for technical support issues between QAD users and outsourced resources.
- User Maintenance / License Support
- Main contact with QAD service provider
- Responsible for managing QAD upgrades and resolving system issues.
Operations Support
- Inventory Accounting: work with Operations Group to manage all inventory activities (buying, manufacturing, shipping and returns), inventory valuation (lower of cost or market) and reserve requirements (excess, obsolete, and price)
- Inventory Management: Organizer and coordinate the physical inventory
- Perform monthly analysis of inventory related general ledger account variances & reconcile changes.
- Develop/establish policies and procedures to enhance inventory control efforts
- Manage the physical inventory process ensuring accuracy and proper valuation.
- Oversee receiving process to ensure compliance with accounting procedures
- Define costing and inventory reports for management.
- Key adviser and information provider to business partners concerning costing & inventory issues
- Assist/support operations with proper completion of material masters.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 8 years of experience, 6 years in cost accounting
- Bachelors degree from accredited university
- CPA preferred but not required
