Cost Accountant

Company: IDEMIA
Location: Exton
Posted on: June 25, 2022

Job Description:

Overview: The Cost Accountant functions as a business support person to the operations and financial management team. Responsible for analyzing and developing standard costs, bill of materials (BOM), and assist in developing the annual budget. Works closely with manufacturing and business units to perform margin analysis, as well as understanding circumstances and how they impact the financial results.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Ensure financial analysis and reports of manufacturing costs for business operations & executives
• Assist with cost analysis and product unit costing
• Provide manufacturing cost accounting support to the operations
• Contribute to Month end close, review of variances from budget, & expenses review
• Prepare KPI (Scorecard) analysis and reporting business metrics
• Perform Adhoc projects analysis as needed
• Participate on new projects and cost saving initiatives
  
  • Month-End financial activities and reporting to senior management and corporate
    
    • Monthly analytical review of material consumption
    • Month-end and special projects
    • Monthly preparation of journal entries and reconciliations
    • Facilitate monthly physical inventory, and perform reconciliation
      
      • Special project improvement activities
      • Support implementation of D365 system and optimize the future inventory management in the
      • Build reports leveraging Power BI to support inventory reconciliation and reporting
      • core model
      • Investigate automation capabilities with Power automate, make recommendations for best practice, and implement to ease manual nature of inventory management
      • Initiate and lead special projects for process improvements
      • Assist with year-end audit by providing data requested by external auditors
        EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE
        • Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance
        • Experience with ERP and BI tools such as Power BI
        • Experience in automation and continuous improvement approach
        • Prior manufacturing experience preferred REQUIRED SKILLS
          • Advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge, and other office tools
          • Data crunching for financial reporting and analysis (essential)
          • Used to ERP environment
          • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
          • Effective communication skills
          • Solid attention to detail and can work independently or as part of a team
          • Self-starter that thrives in a fast-paced and energetic environment
            
            Who we are:
            IDEMIA is the global leader in identity and security. Our mission is to create a safe and simple future where identity verification is indisputable, and only you can assert your identity. We are a distributed company leveraging the latest technologies to deliver world-class products in the private and public sectors of finance, telecom, identity, security, retail, sports entertainment, commercial, government, and IoT. We use a variety of technologies and approaches to deliver quality product and services to government agencies and technology companies. IDEMIA is a made up of a group of 14,000 diverse people from different nationalities, speaking over 20 different languages. Together, our solutions impact the everyday lives of citizens and nations. In this ever-changing world, protecting your identity is paramount. Join the team that is ensuring one person- one identity.

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