Cost Accountant

HolwegWeber North Amaerica – Kiel, WI

Summary

Our Values: Shaping Tomorrow’s Packaging, and Growing Together

Whether you’re in the office, working from home, collaborating with the plant management team, reporting to the COO, or getting to know the production and plant employees, you can expect to have an impact!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary.  The primary duties include:

1. Develop and maintain a cost accounting system, documents, and records for the organization
2. Collect and analyze data about the company’s operational costs including raw material purchases, inventory, work in process, and labor
3. Review changes in goods and services to determine what effect it has on product cost
4. Prepare estimates of new and proposed product costs
5. Provide analysis to support make versus buy decisions on component and service parts
6. Conduct variance analysis such as Invoice to PO price variances and work order variances
7. Prepare estimates of new and proposed product costs
8. Generate reports for management that specify and compare factors that affect product profitability
9. Project profit margins for machine sales and analyze trends compared to budget results
10. Prepare cost forecasts for monthly, quarterly, or annual operating analysis
11. Conduct physical inventories and monitor the cycle count program
12. Assists with preparation for annual audits
13. Works to reconcile cost inaccuracies or imbalances
14. Control and managing reporting of plant wide capital expenditures
15. Generate KPI Reporting and Analysis including labor reporting
16. Preform account reconciliations as assigned
17. Provide back up support for the Finance Director
18. Performs special projects as assigned

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Strong analytical thinking and a detail-oriented mindset
• Proficiency in Excel
• Ability to work well in a team environment

Education and/or Experience                                                  

• 1-3 years of cost accounting experience preferred.  Experience in Cost Accounting in Manufacturing preferred.
• Requires a Bachelor’s degree (B. A.) in Accounting.

Language Skills                                               

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports and business correspondence. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, customers, and vendors.

Mathematical Skills                                                     

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, proportions, percentages, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra.

Reasoning Ability                                            

• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to sit, keyboard, stand; walk, and occasionally stoop, kneel, crouch.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.