Cost Accountant — Costing & Analysis Expert

Vie Del; California; On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vie-Del is seeking a qualified Cost Accountant to oversee day-to-day accounting activities in our finance department, ensuring records conform to GAAP and company policies. The role focuses on cost accounting standards, inventory analysis, journal entries, and collaboration with the Controller to optimize procedures.

The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in accounting/business and at least two years of cost accounting experience, with strong analytical and IT skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business is required with strong cost accounting knowledge.
• Minimum of 2 years of cost accounting work experience.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles (GAAP).
• Analytical thinker with attention to detail and good organizational skills.
• Excellent report writing, communication and IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the cost accounting standards.
• Conduct inventory reserve analysis.
• Assist the Controller with suggesting changes to policies or procedures.
• Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required.
• Review rates of depreciation, labor and overhead and suggest policy changes to improve numbers.
• Make estimates of new and proposed product costs.
• Classify costs accurately.
• Generate PPV reports and analyze findings.
• Establish standard costs and update them as appropriate.
• Maintain and review the general ledger and reconcile balance sheets.
• Analyze costs of raw materials and other supplies and create cost-benefit analyses for changing vendors.
• Provide management with reports that specify and compare factors that affect prices and profitability of products or services.
• Prepare monthly journal entries.
• Assist in audits and general ledger preparation.
• Assist with physical inventories.
• Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses.
• Report on breakeven points by products, work centers, and plants.
• Report on margins by product and division.
• Report on periodic variances and their causes.
• Analyze capital budgeting requests.

Skills

Cost accounting

GAAP

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/business

2 years cost accounting experience

Job description

Vie-Del is seeking a qualified Cost Accountant to oversee day-to-day accounting activities in our finance department, ensuring records conform to GAAP and company policies. The role focuses on cost accounting standards, inventory analysis, journal entries, and collaboration with the Controller to optimize procedures.

The successful candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in accounting/business and at least two years of cost accounting experience, with strong analytical and IT skills.