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RGP · 2 weeks ago

Director – Cost Accounting / Operations Finance / Business Partner

Westbury, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$60/hr - $80/hr

12+ years exp

RGP is a company that creates a future where businesses can produce their best work without constraints. They are seeking a Director of Cost Accounting to lead the development of product standard costing policies and provide insights for operational decisions while collaborating with various teams to analyze cost structures and drive financial performance.

Commercial

Work & Life Balance

Hiring Manager

Maria Zaczyk

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

Uses Oracle/One Stream for FP&A and Excel

Qualification

Cost AccountingFinancial AnalysisManufacturing ExperienceData-Driven Decision MakingOracle/One StreamAlteryxProcess ImprovementProject ManagementCross-Functional CollaborationLeadership

Required

Bachelors degree in Finance, Business or Accounting (with manufacturing principles and prior experience a must)

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

Strong with systems and process improvement

Able to be onsite hybrid ideally in Long Island, NY (or Greenville SC, Miami Florida or Los Angeles CA)

Preferred

Masters degree desired (compliments in the area of engineering / operations)

Alteryx a plus

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) savings plan

Employee Stock Purchase plan

Professional development program

Paid Time Off

Paid Sick Time (in geographies where legally required)

Company

RGP

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RGP (Nasdaq: RGP) is an award-winning global professional services firm with three decades of experience helping the world’s top organizations navigate change and seize opportunity.

Founded in 2004

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

1001-5000 employees