Cost Accountant

Champion Home Builders, Inc.; Leola (PA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Medical

Rx

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Job summary

Champion Home Builders, Inc. in Leola, PA is seeking a Cost Accountant to manage product costing and margin analysis for home models and options. You will maintain Navision ERP data, prepare pricing, and support inventory valuation.

You will collaborate with Sales, Engineering, Materials and Production to ensure accurate costing, monitor commodity trends, and uphold standard costing practices across brands.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and/or 2+ years related experience.
• Accounting and Costing experience in a manufacturing industry preferred.
• Experience with Navision or other ERP systems is a plus.
• Manufactured housing or construction industry knowledge is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Maintains cost in Navision ERP system, creating bills of material for models and options, updating bills by exchanging new items being purchased for old items made obsolete, to provide accurate margin information for pricing decisions.
• Local Navision system maintenance and problem resolution with corporate office.
• Production floor audits of bills of material for models and options to verify as-built items and quantities.
• Maintain standard construction specifications for each brand.
• Approving all job orders prior to production.
• Interacts with Sales, Engineering, Materials, and Production to support costing.
• Track commodity costs to monitor the need for material surcharges.
• Maintain Navision price files with approved prices for quoting.
• Assist with quarterly physical inventory count and valuation.
• Maintain the standard costing system and manage purchase price variances.
• Assist the controller with accounting as it relates to inventories (raw, WIP, finished goods, cost-of-goods sold, valuations, reserves).

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

Tools

Navision ERP

Job description

Work in a place where your team values YOU.

Champion Home Builder, Inc wants YOU! We are seeking to hire a Cost Accountant to join our team in the Leola, PA region.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

• 401k plan with company match
• paid vacation
• paid holidays
• medical
• Rx
• Dental, vision, and life insurance.

WHO IS CHAMPION HOME BUILDER, INC?

For decades, Champion has served as a leader in the manufactured housing industry and one of the largest mobile and modular home builders in North America. Champion offers many factory-built solutions, from single-family and multi-family homes to commercial and government buildings. Our manufactured homes, modular homes, mobile homes, park models, and commercial modular buildings can be found throughout the United States and western Canada.

Throughout the organization, we act with integrity and respect. We take pride in our craftsmanship and build strong relationships with our customers, suppliers, and our employees. We know that we would not be successful without our team. In return for hard work and dedication, our goal is to provide a safe, productive, and enjoyable workplace for every employee.

Job Title:

Cost Accountant

FLSA Status:

Exempt

Summary:

Manages product costing and margin analysis for several brands of manufactured houses including options. Determines costing impact of product modifications and customizations. Provides costing estimates and maintains master model and option price files for quotation purposes of new business. Manages home configuration and standard costing systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintains cost in Navision ERP system, creating bills of material for models and options, updating bills by exchanging new items being purchased for old items made obsolete, to provide accurate margin information for use by the General Manager and Controller for pricing decisions.
• Local Navision system maintenance (running system update programs, working with the corporate office to implement updates or problem resolution, training others).
• Production floor audits of bills of material for models and options to verify and update Navision bills for as-built items and quantities.
• Maintenance of standard construction specifications for each brand.
• Approving all job orders prior to production.
• Interacts with other departments, including Sales, Engineering, Materials, and Production.
• Track commodity costs to monitor the need to initiate or increase material surcharges.
• Ensures maintenance remains up to date to provide current margin information for models and options used to determine price adjustments.
• Maintains all models, options, and Navision price files with approved prices for quoting.
• Assists with the quarterly physical inventory count and valuation.
• Maintains the standard costing system and manages purchase price variances.
• Assists the controller with accounting as it relates to inventories (raw, WIP, finished goods, and cost-of-goods sold, valuations, and reserves).

Competencies

• Must have leadership and organizational skills with the drive to excel and perform at the next level.
• Must be able to exercise independent judgment or adopt or modify methods and standards to meet assigned duties/objectives.
• Must be able to research and problem solve, devise solutions and recommendations, and report on findings.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as square and lineal footages, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume, as it pertains to costing.
• Must have advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and/or 2+ years related experience.
• Accounting and Costing experience in a manufacturing industry preferred.
• Experience with Navision or other ERP systems is a plus.
• Manufactured housing or construction industry knowledge is helpful.

EEO Statement

Champion Home Builders is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Champion Home Builders participates in the E-Verify Program.