1. Month End Close: Reconciles inventory accounts, cost of sales accounts, and accruals to assist the General Ledger team accurately state financials and other reporting.
2. Item Setup: Simulates and finalizes costs for purchased and manufactured items. Creates cost models for new manufactured items by conducting time studies to develop routing times. Allocates work center labor and overhead via these routing times to accurately state product costs in accordance with GAAP.
3. Finance Liaison: Provides assigned division directors with budget-to-actual reporting, ad-hoc financial reporting, and ROI's. This position also asks as a finance liaison for annual budgeting as well as assists with miscellaneous projections.
4. Pricing Support: Builds international pricing models to help Product Marketing price product in international markets within our margin targets. Analyzes market data, historical pricing, and the cost structure of the company to recommend margin targets.
5. Annual Standard Cost Audit: Plans, executes, and validates that domestic and international costs are stated accurately each year. This includes follow up time studies to test the accuracy of established routers for manufactured product, an analysis of work center rates and overhead rates, the load of these costs into the ERP system, and the validation of these costs once loaded. Extrapolates the transfer prices for each item in the respective international markets.
6. Transfer Price Analysis: Assists the International Controller and the Director of Business Analytics in the creation of a global transfer pricing matrix. Gathers and analyzes global cost of sales data and determines allocable drivers to spread costs to foreign markets.
7. Manages Year End Inventory Count: Plans, coordinates, and executes the yearend inventory count. Responsible to schedule the count, staff the count, determine the items to be counted and develops a report the analyze the accuracy of the inventory count.
8. Assists external auditors: During the annual external audit, assists the auditors with inventory and cost of sales inquiries. Responsible to demonstrate that inventory is accurately stated and that the standard costing system mimics FIFO in accordance with GAAP.
9. Support for Accounting Manager: Fulfills any duty or assignment requested by the Accounting Manager.
10. Analyze Production Variances: Analyze actual costs versus standard costs weekly and prepare reports explaining variances. Analyze changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods, rate schedules and other manufacturing changes to determine the impact on costs
