Senior Cost Accountant, Medical Devices & Consumables

Senior Cost Accountant

Immediate job opening for a Senior Financial Analyst (Professional / "Manager" level) with a world-class, billion-dollar medical device & consumables manufacturer.

Position is pegged to advance into a Controller position with success (reports to Controller / Director level).

$1B business unit has experienced extensive organic & acquisitional growth over the past 5 years.

80K employees, 5 million patients worldwide, and over 18,000 patents.

Dynamic culture, best in class mentality, never a boring workday.

Select Qualifications :

Reporting directly to the Controller (Director), in this role you'll be responsible for monthly reporting and forecasting, cost center analysis, material variance analysis, and budgeting. Cost accounting with SAP in manufacturing industry is required.

As this role is expected to grow into controller position, knowledge of managerial accounting and Power BI will have a significant advantage. This is a perfect opportunity for whoever is willing to work hard and quickly grow his / her career with business.

Month End Close and Monthly Reporting :

Lead department KPI reporting and variance analysis.

Work with department leaders and reflect KPIs into financial forecast of the plant.

Ensure alignment of reporting in SAP P41 and Jedox.

Compile accurate internal reporting package by established deadline each month.

Prepare high-level PowerPoint presentation and meet with manufacturing team each month to effectively communicate results, trends, and concerns from projections.

Work with team on productivity reporting, facilitate estimates for pipeline ideas, review project calculations for accuracy, and update financial and status information in reporting system.

Spend and Material Variance Analysis :

Analyze manufacturing costs, including payroll, purchase orders, and allocations. Provide and effectively communicate meaningful explanations for variances to budget and forecast and prior year, and identify and work with business partners on improvement opportunities.

Analyze, in detail, material costs and labor / overhead application for variances to standards and provide summarized explanations. Work with operations personnel to understand variances, mitigate risks, and identify opportunities in production process.

Track and accurately report on project scrap and other costs.

Support project implementation with financial analysis and master data review and update.

Track spend and manufacturing orders at daily basis. Work with department leadership to proactively solve issues, if any.

Budgeting and Forecasting :

Coordinate and consolidate cost center spend information for budget process.

Calculate and communicate allocation information.

Determine annual production costs and standards.

Compile P&L, volume, spend, headcount, capital expenditure, and inventory projections.

Ensure all schedules tie to each other and are consistent with communicated assumptions.

Generate accurate schedules for annual budget package and for monthly forecasts and distribute within established deadlines.

Generate and monitor monthly projections and identify and effectively communicate all material variances to budget / forecast.

Ensure effective two-way communication with operations team to align projections with trends, underlying factors, and expected exceptions.

Load budgets and forecasts in various systems and ensure alignment between systems.

Complete cost roll in budget and maintain standard cost during fiscal year.

Qualifications :

BS / BA in Finance, Accounting, or similar.

Min 5+ years of finance experience required.

Cost accounting with SAP in the manufacturing industry is required.

MS Excel skills required.

CPA or CMA desired.

Ability to analyze financial results to determine accuracy and completeness of information, prepares various financial reports, compiles and reviews financial plans and budgets, ensures compliance with budget allocations, performs financial analysis at complex levels including rate of return, depreciation, working capital, investments, budgeting, and financial and expense performance comparisons, ensures conformance to IFRS and SOA requirements, and may perform commercial / contract activities, pricing, margin calculations, etc.

Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and leadership skills and ability to work with all levels of management are required.

Must demonstrate successful experience of working with functional partners to improve process and enhance efficiency.

Must demonstrate strong capability of handling challenges and pressures under dynamic situation.