Cost Accountant - Margin & Cost Optimization Pro

Wine Industry Expo; Fresno (CA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Vie-Del is seeking a Cost Accountant to manage day-to-day accounting activities under GAAP and to prepare accurate financial statements. The role emphasizes cost systems, standard costing, and reporting for management decisions.

Responsibilities include developing cost standards, analyzing PPV, maintaining the general ledger, and supporting audits. This position requires strong analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail in a fast-paced production environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/business with relevant coursework; cost accounting experience is essential.
• 2 years of cost accounting work experience.
• Solid understanding of accounting principles and GAAP.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the cost accounting standards.
• Conduct inventory reserve analysis.
• Assist the Controller with policy or procedure changes.
• Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required.
• Review depreciation, labor and overhead and suggest policy changes to improve numbers.
• Make estimates of new and proposed product costs.
• Classify costs accurately.
• Generate Purchase Price Variance (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 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

Journal entries

Financial reporting

Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business

2 years cost accounting experience

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

General ledger software

Job description

Vie-Del is seeking a Cost Accountant to manage day-to-day accounting activities under GAAP and to prepare accurate financial statements. The role emphasizes cost systems, standard costing, and reporting for management decisions.

Responsibilities include developing cost standards, analyzing PPV, maintaining the general ledger, and supporting audits. This position requires strong analytical skills and meticulous attention to detail in a fast-paced production environment.