Cost Accounting Supervisor

Job Summary: You will manage a Regional Cost Accounting Team and provide cost accounting support and expertise to Finance Business Partners and leadership for multiple sites (locations) and Platforms (divisions), providing insight, consultation and governance over the cost accounting model.

Responsibilities & Requirements:

Manage Regional Cost Accounting Team, prioritizing and planning team activities, responsibilities and accountabilities

Focus on Team-, Process- and Efficiency-improvement, identifying issues and bottle-necks and propose changes to improve

Support the Regional Accounting Manager and Finance Business Partners in the calculation of standards, rates and/or costing standards and analyse impacts in the product cost

Inventory accounting (physical cycle counts audits and variances identifications and registration, ensure proper classification of inventory and material and purchasing rates verification and calculation)

Research, troubleshoot, and answer complex questions and advise the Finance Business Partner organization on cost model issues (including In and Out margins analysis, participates and supports project reviews, support special costing projects for customer quotations, productivity, efficiency and utilization analysis, etc.)

Explore and analyse root causes of any cost model or business finance issues and propose policy or process changes to improve work moving forward

Identify cost incurred and participate on Project Status Review in order to obtain information to be used on Revenue accounting records and calculations for both Percentage-of-Completion and Point-in-Time projects

And any other duties as assigned

Preferred Experience / Skills:

Percentage of Completion (POC) accounting experience preferred

Experience in project-based organization

Strong technical accounting skills

Good research and issue resolution skills; Proactive attitude

Ability to assess and recommend solutions for assigned projects

Ability to prioritize, plan, perform and communicate team activities both in written and verbal form

Knowledge of SAP, Oracle and/or BPC is a plus

Ability to work in decentralized matrix organizations

BS or BA Degree in relevant field and 5-7 years relevant experience