Our Brecksville, OH client is in search of Cost Analyst. The ideal candidate would maintain the inventory management/costing system. This includes both from a quantity and from a costing standpoint. This involves working closely with plant personnel in regard to inventory quantities as well as our purchasing department in tracking valuation issues. It also requires monitoring of the status of inventories: active, slow-moving, obsolete to ensure proper valuation in the balance sheet.
Responsibilities:
Physical Inventories
Coordinate timing and execution with Plant & Material Managers at each location
Complete final posting after all recounts have been completed and prepare reports
Review and analysis reasons for significant adjustments
Raw Material Costing
Monitor and update standard costs for fruits and non-fruit raw materials by working with internal buyers and affiliate purchasing company
Ensure that PO pricing is properly maintained by purchasing department by reviewing variances and seeking appropriate resolution of issues
Analyze impact and communicate material deviations between actual and expected costs in a timely matter so that commercial adjustments can be made
Review raw material landed cost variances and report material variances and recommend changes to cost standards where appropriate
Prepare monthly reports on summarizing variance issues
Finished Good Costing
Perform finished good costing runs monthly and for planning purposes ensuring results are representative of actual costs to produce items and resolve issues proactively
Review expected and actual margins and analyze and communicate issues as identified
Work with the plants to correct costing problems when performing production recording
Un-invoiced Freight Review
Communicate with plants and purchasing
Adjust reporting and make journal entries as necessary to clear improper uninvoiced freight items
Work with plants to correct errors made in freight attachments
Manual Billings
Prepare all manual billings for sales of raw materials
Prepare billing for claims filed against suppliers or for obsolete raw materials
Prepare billings for Dannon Scraptracker
Prepare the proper journal entries to account for transactions
Inventory Aging Reporting
Analyze and work with Logistics, R&D, purchasing and the plants to determine if materials are properly classified and to determine a disposition of the materials
Export Sugar Reporting
Prepare quarterly reporting to send to USDA for export sugar credit
Account for running balance of export sugar credit based on receipts of export sugar and USDA filings
Sign and account for all Notice of Transfers sent by our sugar vendors
Inventory Reserve
Prepare monthly detail
Review and Analyses for adequacy and risk areas
Inventory Scrapping/Dump Reporting/RW Reporting
Prepare monthly detail
Review transactions for appropriateness
Ensure that inventory scrapping that is billable is actually billed and collected
Gross Margin Analysis
Monthly in-depth review of Gross Margin categories
Prepare and Analyze Target Reporting in accordance with Group Guidelines
Material Losses
Conversion Costs
Customer Specific Reconciliations & Receivables
Manage „ Scraptracker“ Accounting, Invoicing
Claims Receivable,
Non Dannon billings of FG’s
Damaged tote invoicing
Claims Accounting
Work with plants to gather supporting cost details for raw material based claims and work with supplier to obtain reimbursement
Budgeting
Full ownership and compilation of the customer Margin planning portion of the annual budget & re-forecasted budgets, as required by the Group.
Requires maintaining cost related data and performing cost planning in ERP
Ensure budgeted pricing is accurate and that cost elements are in line between cost planning and pricing assumptions
Supervise and maintain the Accounts Payable process.
Includes integrated Travel & Expense Reporting Web based application (Expenseanywhere)
Assist with Annual Independent Audit
Requirements:
Education / Training: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance/Accounting
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