Cost Accountant Job at KCO Resource Management, Greensboro, NC

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  • KCO Resource Management
  • Greensboro, NC

Job Description

Job Description

Cost Accountant

We’re partnering with a leading food manufacturer in North America that’s hiring a Cost Accountant. This critical role offers the opportunity to be responsible for supporting the facility’s financial reporting team with month end financial closing duties, budgeting, forecasting, and costing activities for the facility as directed. This is a key player in supporting the plant operations by providing accounting support and will assist management with the identification, development and implementation of procedures that improve utilization of raw materials to minimize cost.

Location: commutable from Greensboro, NC

Job Responsibilities:

  • Assist corporate cost accounting team with review and input to the monthly standard cost update and review of all facility BOMs for accuracy.
  • Reconcile invoices, apply accurate G/L codes, cost centers, and data entry of invoices into ERP system for processing as applicable.
  • Ownership of Plant standard cost system, providing insight and analysis of drivers of performance
  • Participate in the development of data-driven, fact-based information to support decisions enabling productivity measures to reduce overall cost.
  • Play a critical role in the month end closing process; preparing journal entries for approval and investigating variances.
  • Prepare and analyze daily material yield and loss.
  • Assist department management with development procedures that improve the accuracy of functional performance reporting and identification opportunities for further cost reduction across the operation.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

  • Manufacturing cost accounting experience
  • Strong Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, modeling, data manipulation)
  • Ability to pull data from SAP (preferred) or any ERP system and build analyses in Excel
  • Experience with Yields / variances / losses, Standard cost concepts, and Inventory accounting
  • Solid month-end close experience: Journal entries, Reconciliations, Cost/operational analysis
  • Prior experience in food manufacturing, dairy, or CPG, is preferred
  • Exposure to plant floor operations (understanding yields, scrap, loss, throughput)

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