Downers Grove, Illinois
Cost Accountant Job Opening in Downers Grove, Illinois - Job Introduction
The Cost Accountant reports to the Accounting Manager, this role will focus on providing cost accounting and inventory management support for a dynamic multi-location manufacturing organization in the United States.
Main Responsibilities
What you?ll do:
Create and maintain customer pricing files for new and existing manufacturing projects.
Create and maintain the standard cost system for inventory component items.
Analyze purchase price variances and operational efficiency (scrap) performance and assist plant management to identify improvement targets.
Evaluate, report, and present reports on customer profitability.
Track, analyze, and report on inventory management, including disposals.
Provide general ledger support as part of standard monthly procedure.
Perform month-end balance sheet account reconciliations as appropriate.
Perform ad-hoc analysis through research to support finance function, including supporting schedules for internal and external reporting requirements.
Communicate and support multiple internal and external customers.
The Ideal Candidate
What you?ll need:
Strong work ethic and integrity
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
High level of initiative and willingness to support teammates
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Organization skills
Detail-oriented with ability to consistently meet deadlines
:
Bachelor?s Degree in Accounting from four-year college or university
CMA or equivalent professional certification preferred, but not required
2+ years professional accounting experience (cost accounting or inventory management experience preferred)
ERP experience preferred and ability to learn accounting software
MS Office skills (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
Occasional travel to be expected (10-15%)
About The Company
Greencore is a fast growing, international convenience food leader. It is a leading US manufacturer of sandwiches, meal kits, salads and Consumer Product Goods, convenience retail and food service. In the UK Greencore is a leading manufacturer of sandwiches and other food to go products to grocery retailers, with complementary positions in other convenience food categories, including chilled prepared meals, chilled soups and sauces, ambient sauces & pickles, cakes & desserts and Yorkshire Puddings.
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