Cost Accountant (51345)

Haas Automation; Oxnard (CA); On-site; USD 38,572 - 59,236; Full time

Job summary

Haas Automation, located in Oxnard, California, is seeking a Cost Accountant to apply cost accounting principles to optimize financial data. The role involves analyzing material and labor costs, preparing detailed cost reports, and managing various cost accounts within the company.

Qualified candidates should have a bachelor's degree in accounting and experience in cost analysis, preferably within a manufacturing environment. The position offers competitive pay and an opportunity to work with a leading machine tool manufacturer.

Qualifications

• 0-4+ years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Familiar with various costing methods and practices.
• Advanced computer skills required.

Responsibilities

• Analyze material and labor costs for efficiency.
• Prepare and analyze cost reports and audits.
• Manage inventory and cost-related general ledger accounts.

Skills

Cost accounting

Variance analysis

Advanced Excel skills

ERP systems

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Cost Accountant

Salary Range: $28.00 - $43.00/ Hr.

As the largest machine tool builder in the western world, we need world‑class talent in all of our departments. And we’re not just looking for people for the production floor. Haas is a very vertically integrated company, with a wide range of high‑tech career opportunities available. We are the same Haas that owns the Haas Factory Racing Team and Haas F1 Team from the Netflix series Drive to Survive.

Job Summary

The Cost Accountant applies principles of cost accounting to develop cost systems, recommend improvements, and implement and maintain approved recommendations. Provides detailed cost information not supplied by general accounting systems. Determines and implements cost accounting procedures and methods. Prepares and analyzes cost reports and audits costing data. Examines and reviews unusual cost records and ensures cost data is allocated correctly.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Collects and analyzes material and labor costs to evaluate efficiency and effectiveness of various production activities.
• Analyzes cost changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods, or services provided, to determine effects on total production costs.
• Develops and maintains cost procedure manual.
• Analyzes actual manufacturing costs and prepares periodic report comparing standard costs to actual production costs.
• Records cost information for use in controlling expenditures.
• Analyzes audits of production costs of materials and prepares reports.
• Compiles cost information to be used in operating and budget preparation.
• Makes estimates of new and proposed product or service costs.
• Provides management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting costs and profitability of products or services.
• Manages the Inventory Adjustment General Ledger Account by preparing month‑end reports on the account’s activity and by requiring feedback from warehouse and production management regarding adjustments with an absolute value of $50,000 per part number.
• Manages the aging in the WIP account on the balance sheet by preparing month‑end reports on the account’s activity and by requiring production management to close production orders that have aged beyond 6 months.
• Manages the Purchase Price Variance General ledger account by preparing month‑end reports on the account’s activity and by having feedback from Purchasing and Inventory regarding variances due to items such as Purchase Order price changes or tariff changes on the Purchase Information record in SAP.
• Review Standard Cost Changes General Ledger account for price changes due to standard cost updates.
• Directs production related departments (planning, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, design engineering, etc.) regarding structural fixes to BOMs and routings to ensure that part’s cost attachment reflects the actual build process.

Oversee the following monthly activities at HAI

• SAP Controlling close.
• HAI standard cost and global PIR updates.
• Audit of movement types 202, 309, and 5XX.
• Production variance analysis.
• Manufacturing organization cost recovery analysis (actual expenses in relation to recovery rates).
• Audit of manufacturing organization’s actual expenses, e.g., contract labor invoice payment timing, tools and tooling usage, etc.
• Trade show internal order creation.
• Internal order aging management.
• Machine maintenance order aging management.
• Overseas material number release (attaching cost, establishing correct financial relationships, remove NR flag, etc.).
• Audit of 7XX movement in relation to approved cycle count documents.
• Audit of 904 movement to ensure inventory change is correct.
• Attaching costs to new material releases (build materials) to ensure cost attachment logic is correct.
• Product Cost Collector creation, settlement, and deletion.
• Audit of sales order cost attachment to ensure that the COGM value is correct.
• Audit of bin stock consumption for reasonableness in relation to the month’s production units.
• Audit HAA and HAE’s material master to ensure costs can be attached correctly to each material for PIR updates.
• Determine standard cost recovery rates for activities Labor, Set‑up Labor, Machine, and Overhead in relation to HAI standard cost and global PIR updates.
• Determine HAI standard cost and global PIR update dates throughout a given year.
• Analyze 309 movement types at HAI.
• Review cycle count adjustments.
• Review operation’s Purchase Order receipts transactions greater than USD$150,000.
• Perform cost attachment logic analysis on Haas build products for the engineering, purchasing, and manufacturing business units.
• Build SAP cost attachment analysis tools for various Haas business units.
• Analyze monthly the cost attached to materials consumed as reported in the raw material consumption account in relation to the material’s most current purchase order value to determine if the material’s standard cost is reasonable.
• Perform quarterly cost run of inventory materials.
• Teach colleagues SAP’s cost attachment logic, where in SAP the attached costs can be seen, and how to navigate within SAP to see costs attached.

Employee Expectations

• Employees are expected to follow instructions, procedures and to escape any issue impacting workflow, quality, etc.
• Employees must exhibit honesty and integrity as well as demonstrate adherence to rules, procedures and policies.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job does not have any supervisory activities.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be familiar with a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Experience with a variety of costing methods, manufacturing processes, and variance analysis techniques.
• Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
• Advanced computer skills (Excel, Word, Access).
• 0-4+ years of cost accounting experience in a complex manufacturing environment or 6-8 years of cost accounting experience working in a manufacturing environment.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with large ERP system such as Oracle or SAP.

Education

Bachelor's Degree BA/BS/BFA/BSA from a four‑year college or university is required, plus additional related experience, training and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Major

Accounting

Minimum Years of Experience

0 to 4 years of experience

Language Skills

Must have the ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and/or governmental regulations in English. Must be able to write analytical and/or technical reports, business correspondence, procedure manuals, and create instructional reference material. Able to speak effectively before groups, customers, employees of the organization and/or the general public.

Mathematical Skills

Must be able to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Must have the ability to apply concepts of arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.

Reasoning Ability

Must have the ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands

Physical Activity: Sitting – Frequently; Standing – Frequently; Walking – Frequently; Bending (neck) – Frequently; Bending (waist) – Rarely; Squatting – Rarely; Twisting (neck) – Occasionally; Twisting (waist) – Occasionally; Climbing – Never; Kneeling – Never; Crawling – Never; Reaching (above shoulder level) – Occasionally; Reaching (below shoulder level) – Occasionally.

Hand Use: Repetitive use of hand – Frequently; Simple grasping – Frequently; Power grasping – Rarely; Fine manipulation – Frequently; Pushing & Pulling – Frequently.

Vision Required: Close vision – Yes; Distance vision – No; Color vision – Yes; Peripheral vision – No; Depth perception – No; Adjust focus – Yes.

Lifting Requirements: 0‑10 lbs. – Occasionally; 11‑25 lbs. – Occasionally; 26‑50 lbs. – Occasionally; 51‑60 lbs. – Never; 61+ lbs. – Never.

Equipment Use: This position requires computer use, including monitor, keyboard, mouse, trackball, touchpad, etc. – Frequently.

Work Environment

Noise Level: Moderate.

Work Environment: This position operates in a general office or engineering lab environment – Constantly. Employee will work around machining or on the production floor – Never. Employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts and vibration – Never. Employee is exposed to hazardous chemicals, fumes or airborne particles – Never. Employee is exposed to outside weather conditions, extreme cold or extreme heat – Never. Employee is exposed to risk of electrical shock – Never.