Cost Accounting Manager - Cleveland, United States - Arrow International

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    Job Type

    Full-time

    Description

    Arrow International is the world's largest manufacturer and supplier of charitable gaming products and solutions. We produce and distribute a wide array of products including consumables (pull tab tickets, bingo paper and ink, etc.) as well as world class, state-of-the-art, electronic gaming products. Our products are sold, installed, and operated in numerous social and gaming venues around the world. We continue to grow at a record pace and offer this exciting career opportunity to join our team where we are focused on attracting and engaging exceptional talent, empowering colleagues to achieve fulfilling careers, and creating fun and engaging products that are second to none for our customers. This position is on-site at global corporate headquarters.

    Position Summary

    The Cost Accounting Manager will provide accounting support to the operations of the business as well as financial management. This individual will be involved with projects within the financial management areas as well as providing financial support with the monthly and annual issuing of financial statements. This person may assist with projects to further automate the costing systems, to provide data that will allow daily analysis of variances and eliminate the manual recording of costing entries at the month-end.

    Primary Roles and Responsibilities

    • Overall responsibility of standard cost accounting / inventory valuation.
    • Monthly variance analysis (Material, Labor and Overhead), product line profitability.
    • Engineering and development of new product standard costing.
    • Annual review and refresh and standards costs.
    • Lead weekly/monthly meetings with Plant Manager to discuss variances, Production KPI's, any other Plant/Production requirements.
    • Analyze and reconcile inventory transactions for accuracy and completeness in support of monthly financial reporting.
    • Calculate Inventory reserve monthly based on aging inventory.
    • Work with supply chain to develop or better understand existing metrics and KPIs that influence financial performance.
    • Review work order variances with the production team.
    • Assists in the annual budgeting process.
    • Assist month-end close journal entries of general ledger.
    • Oversee the physical inventory program including monitoring and reporting the results of cycle and full counts.
    • Performs special projects/analysis as needed.
    • Analyze costs of materials, processes, and labor to determine opportunities and methods for reduction of production and inventory costs.
    • Develop and/or update accounting and operational process and procedures documentation around the inventory management and costing processes.
    Requirements

    Experience and Education
    • BA or BS in Accounting or Finance.
    • 5-8+ years cost accounting experience required
    • Extensive experience in manufacturing/plant environment, production routing, bill of material.
    • Ability to perform comfortably in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented work environment.
    • Strong Excel skills, especially advanced financial modeling, and analytical techniques.
    • Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
    • 5-8+ years cost accounting experience required
    • Ability to work as a team member, as well as independently.
    • Excellent analytical skills; strong focus on accuracy and attention to detail.
    • Manage direct staff including scheduling, planning, assigning, and directing work as well as identifying and resolving problems.
    • Oversee the physical inventory program including monitoring and reporting the results of cycle and full counts.
    • Ability to apply knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting.