Job Descriptions

• Planning, studying and collecting data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases, inventory and labor. • Analyzing data collected and recording results. • Analyzing changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods or services provided, to determine effects on cost. • Analyzing actual manufacturing costs and preparing periodic reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs. • Recording cost information for use in controlling expenditures. • Analyzing audits of costs and preparing reports. • Making estimates of new and proposed product costs. • Providing management with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products or services. • Maintaining Cost Accounting System. • Assisting in the Month end close of General Ledger. • Conducts physical inventories and monitors cycle count program. • Reconciles finished goods inventories. • Prepare monthly journal entries manually or by initiating electronic creation through our software program. • Review JEs carefully for anomalies and other inconsistencies. • Prepare monthly and quarterly accounting reports for submission to management. • Conduct inventory reserve analysis on a quarterly basis and generate reports for senior management. • Assist the Staff Accountant with suggesting changes to policies or procedures to increase cash flow. • Review rates of depreciation, labor and overhead and suggest policy changes to improve numbers. • 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.

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