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Aston Carter · 4 days ago

Senior Financial Cost Accountant

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Contract

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$48/hr - $53/hr

3+ years exp

Aston Carter provides corporate talent solutions globally, specializing in various professional fields. They are seeking a Senior Financial Cost Accountant to join their Plant Controlling team, where the role involves providing financial insights and support to enhance efficiency and profitability in a manufacturing environment.

ConsultingHuman ResourcesInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Perform month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities, including journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations related to production costs

Analyze and report on manufacturing variances such as material, labor, overhead, and purchase price

Maintain and update standard costs for raw materials, packaging, and finished goods

Assist in the annual standard cost roll-up process

Prepare, analyze, and distribute daily, weekly, and monthly plant performance reports and KPIs

Develop and maintain financial models to track and forecast plant performance, operational spending, and capital expenditures

Provide clear, concise commentary on financial results, explaining deviations from budget, forecast, and prior periods

Play a key role in the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes

Collaborate with department heads to develop departmental budgets and spending forecasts

Monitor spending against the budget and work with managers to identify and implement cost-saving opportunities

Participate in physical inventory counts and cycle count programs

Analyze inventory levels, identify slow-moving or obsolete inventory, and ensure proper valuation and reserve calculations

Support production ad-hoc issues related to inventory

Reconcile inventory sub-ledgers to the general ledger and conduct inventory adjustments

Utilize SAP CO-PC (Product Costing), CO-PA (Profitability Analysis), and FI modules for data extraction, analysis, and reporting

Assist in maintaining master data integrity within SAP, including cost centers, profit centers, and material masters

Act as a financial business partner to plant leadership, providing ad-hoc analysis and decision support

Analyze the financial viability of capital expenditure requests, calculating ROI, payback period, and NPV

Support internal and external audits by providing necessary documentation and explanations

Qualification

SAP COFI modulesCost accounting principlesFinancial analysisMicrosoft ExcelBusiness Intelligence toolsManufacturing experiencePowerPoint skillsAnalytical skillsProblem-solving skillsInterpersonal skillsTeamwork