Cost Accountant​/Cost Accounting Manager; Electronics

Description

Acara Solutions has been providing manufacturing firms with our staffing services nationally for over 65 years. Our international electronics manufacturing client needs a Cost Accounting Manager for their San Jose, CA plant. This is a salaried direct position with strong benefits. Target salary range is $105K - $110K.

This is a site level Cost Accounting Manager position.

Prepare/generate daily and weekly operational metrics including, but not limited to:
Shipments / Bookings,
Net Production,
Direct Material Issuances,
Labor Incurred,
Scrap Incurred/Remakes started.

• Analyze performance metrics inclusive of those above and others to understand plant performance and make recommendations to Finance Business Partner and General Manager.
• Work with operational department managers to understand cost performance, analyze period variances from standards or forecast.
• Support Finance Business Partner in preparation of Budget/Forecast/Period End Variance Analysis cycle.
• Monitor capital projects from ROI calculation, project approval stage, to capitalization.
• Support and manage all internal and external audit requests and resolve audit issues as they occur.
• Prepare Revenue Recognition testing analysis
• Coordinate with Shared Services Center on vendor/customer/GL issues as they arise.
• Coordinate with Shared Services Center and Customer Service to assist in AR collection efforts where required
• Coordinate/execute Quarterly sample audits of raw, WIP and FG material.
• Support multiple operational reporting schedules/requirements (cost savings, scorecards, Q , capacity utilization, etc.).
• Support Finance Business Partner in preparation of quarterly RMA incident rate calculation.
• Calculate periodic RAW/WIP/FGI valuation including reserves and capitalized variance analysis
• Responsible for maintaining raw, FG and WIP standards.
• Responsible for understanding and reporting our production variances
• Responsible for cycle count testing and YE physical count with Controller.
• Prepare market financial results bridge commentary

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting of Finance
• Min 2 years of accounting experience in a manufacturing environment that includes at least 1 year of cost accounting/costing.
• Min 2 years of advanced Excel

• Oracle

Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, Talent Rise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.