The cost accountant position is accountable for the ongoing analysis of process constraints, target costing projects, margin analysis, and tracing costs back to underlying activities. The cost accountant must also construct and monitor those cost-effective data accumulation systems needed to provide an appropriate level of costing information to management.
Job Duties:
• Construct data accumulation systems for a cost accounting system
• Create and review the controls needed for data accumulation and reporting systems
• Coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle counts
• Investigate cycle counting variances and resolve issues
• Update standard costs in the bill of materials
• Review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies
• Validate the cost of goods sold as part of the month-end close
• Accumulate and apply overhead costs as required by generally accepted accounting principles
• Work with the materials review board to locate and dispose of obsolete inventory
• Conduct ongoing process constraint analyses
• Report on break-even points by products, work centers, and factories
• Report on margins by product and division
• Report on periodic variances and their causes, focusing in particular on spending variances
• Analyze capital budgeting requests
• Perform cost accumulation tasks as a member of the target costing group
• Analyze and control expenditures of division to conform to budgetary requirements.
Job Details
| Date Posted: | 2014-04-02 |
| Job Location: | Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Job Role: | Accounting/Banking/Finance |
| Company Industry: | Lubricants/Greases Blending |
| Joining Date: | 2014-05-01 |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Mid Career |
| Gender: | Male |
| Nationality: | India; Philippines |
| Degree: | Bachelor's degree / higher diploma |
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