Title:  Sr Assoc, Cost Accounting

Job Summary

The Senior Costing Analyst is a global position responsible for managing the product costing process for West’s production plants and distribution centers. They will interact with many departments across the organization and be a trusted partner within finance and operations. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• • Govern and provide expert advice and analysis on all standard cost updates: the annual standard cost process, costing of newly released products and business opportunities, and periodic reviews of individual part costs to ensure they are current and accurately reflect manufacturing costs.
  • Collaborate with engineering and operations to ensure bills of materials and routings are accurate as well as procurement for purchasing information records.
  • Partner with the master data and DBI teams to implement best practices in maintaining the fields relevant to product costing.
  • Analyze global variances (production/purchase price/freight) to ensure accuracy of Standard Costs.
  • Ensure the integrity of the EEP legacy SAP environment and maintain data in that environment to ensure costing continues to transact correctly in that system;
  • Participate in S4 Hana go-lives as well as other SAP initiatives as the subject matter expert in all areas related to standard costing and variances.
  • Ensure appropriate controls and compliance with US GAAP.
  • Support and assist in the global initiatives relating to cost accounting for all regions/divisions of West.
  • Support and assist other functions within the business as required.

Education

• • Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Business with concentration in Accounting/Finance

Work Experience

• • 5+ years of experience
  • Understanding of and experience working in manufacturing environments and the associated financial processes
  • Experience partnering and with supply chain, warehousing, and manufacturing teams, with a solid understanding of principles related to these

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• • Extensive knowledge of SAP, including implementation experience
  • Strong ability to assess problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the problem
  • Ability to effectively analyze transactional level detail in an enterprise resource planning system and articulate the key findings to senior management
  • Ability to multi-task and drive actions to completion under strict deadlines
  • Understanding of GAAP and internal control principles
  • High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and reporting systems (such as Power BI)

Additional Requirements

• Position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. May need to stand or sit for extended periods of time
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger and reach with hands and arms
• Use written and oral communication skills
• Read and interpret data, information and documents
• Must maintain the ability to work well with others in a variety of situations
• Must be able to multi-task, work under time constraints, tight deadlines, problem solve, and prioritize
• Ability to make work independently and sound decision making
• Observe and interpret situations, analyze and solve problems
• Able to be aware of all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description #LI-JJ1

License and Certifications

• MBA, CPA, ACCA, or CMA preferred

Travel Requirements

Physical Requirements