Director of Cost Accounting & Finance Operations

Job Category: Director

Requisition Number: DIREC002106

Full-Time

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Copiague, NY 11726, USA

Description

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, or Accounting (with manufacturing principles and prior experience a must)
Master's degree desired (compliments in the area of engineering/operations)
12+ years of financial/accounting experience - manufacturing environment a must
Managerial level experience a must - well-versed in all aspects of operational finance/accounting, with site finance partnership located in various manufacturing sites
Well-organized, structured individual who demonstrates the ability to multi-task and also project manage plus monthly maintaining of costing and inventory transactional information
Strong ability to work cross-functionally and influence functional areas of the business, based on data-driven analytics
Via data manipulation (consolidation and analysis), explain and clearly define manufacturing and inventory cost trends

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

Reporting to the Vice President of Finance - leads the effort across the company to control (design and set policy) for all aspects of product standard costing
Drives efforts, cross-functionally, to ensure the needs of the standard cost system are accomplished and provide the business with data to drive decisions
Supports product gross margin analysis, via costing data trends
Analyzes monthly manufacturing results, to ensure overhead rates are in line with budget expectations. Including: spend, volume, mix. Works with site finance and consolidates information
Explains variances: volume, spending – as it pertains to manufacturing output – consolidated and via input from site finance
Delineates site cost structure into fixed and variable – to aid with use in product and product line profitability analysis (and) cost setting
Leads the effort of supplying product costs for purposes of price setting on new business items
Builds ad hoc models to understand profitability impact for things such as Excess & Obsolete inventory
Drives change, working cross-functionally, to improve business results through data-driven metrics
Measures direct labor efficiency and productivity
Creates and maintains labor models, understanding: utilization of available hours, and standards deviations
Creates labor reporting to fully understand proper labor sizing through detailed hours reporting: comparing actual to standard
Works closely with Industrial Engineering to ensure labor standards are accurate and representative, through labor routing reviews
Maintains proper inventory reserves and fully manages monthly variance capitalization schedules (capitalizing period variances into inventory – releasing them to the P/L associated with inventory turns
Reports on inventory levels, setting and measuring target progress and identifying impactful trends to working capital
Drives the Supply Chain to achieve needed inventory levels, while not damaging customer satisfaction ratings
Works closely as a Sourcing/Procurement Financial Business partner, providing purchasing and vendor metric performance to a team of buyers and commodity managers
Also partners with and supports NY manufacturing (two sites) with financial reporting, metric tracking, cost controls, and general overall financial business partnering with site functional leaders
Measures and reports out on PPV (trending and analysis)
Leads and mentors subordinates, both at the corporate level and site level, setting goals and objectives that align with the greater corporate G&O’s

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