Cost Accountant

Description

We are hiring for a Cost Accountant to join one of our area's most esteemed Finance teams! As a Cost Accountant, your primary activities will relate to sales and gross margin reporting. Additionally, you'll get involved in forecasting and budgeting, preparing journal entries, and capacity planning.

This is an immediately available opportunity that can lend interim support to a growing and transforming team and/or it can provide a great runway into an evolving role and transform into a full-time, career track opportunity. Both capacities are openly considered by the client.

In the capacity of Cost Accountant, you will positively impact this team through activities such as:

• Manage cost accounting for the organization, including inventory records, transactions, and gross margin

• Investigate, analyze and communicate finding related to financial performance

• Research and analyze historical data; work with detailed data and maintain traceability to a summary level

• Conduct financial and operational audits by examining and verifying accounting or operational records

• Analyze and respond to customer fact-findings and external audits

• Prepare reports of findings and recommendations to management

The ways this role can evolve can be influenced by your short- and long-term goals. Compensation will be considered along with experience brought to the role. Connect with our team today to learn more! Erin, Christin and Paige are great points of contact for this opportunity! Call us at ~~~.

Requirements

• Command of and excitement for flexing your Microsoft Excel skills

• Bachelor degree in Accounting or Finance

• Ability to work with data of complex and diverse scope

• Demonstrate good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions

• Sees solutions and finds way forward in a changing technology environment (they are about to embark upon a significant system change which is enthusiastically awaited)

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All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit ~~~ for more information.

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