Global Cost Accountant
- Guelph, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Works with New Product Development team on various projects from an accounting perspective.
- Ensures that new product development projects are completed on time, on budget with acceptable gross margins.
- Passionately pursue cost reduction targets, on new and existing product.
- Analyze and compare the cost of new products to existing products and prepare sensitivity analysis.
- Work closely with Engineering, purchasing and new product development teams.
- Maintain Bill of Materials (BOM'S) for New Products.
- Facilitate the preparation of expense budgets for the new product development team.
- Investigate and be prepared to explain deviations to budget.
- Maintain cost centers and general ledgers expense codes that are helpful to understanding product development departmental costs.
- Working with plant accounting team in ME close activities.
- Maintaining products standard costing, including calculating standard shop floor rate and OH rate.
- Prepare capital expenditure (Financial Review Board) submissions to Corporate Head Office.
- Understand Return on Investment (ROI) analysis.
- Manager SRED.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Four plus years of significant accounting experience.
- university degree or college diploma in Accounting, Business or a related discipline is required.
- Candidate should be enrolled, or be prepared to enroll, in the CPA program.
- Ability to interpret graphs of financial variables and create tables to track financial data and locate features of business and accounting processes in flowcharts.
- Prepare financial summaries such as balance sheets and income statements.
- Ability to work in a fully computerized environment including knowledge of IFS, Hyperion and advanced MS Excel skills is an asset.
- Ability to evaluate the accuracy of financial data and assess financial risks for accounting systems and business practices.
- Ability to present financial information to managers and supervisors.
- Ability to discuss a variety of accounting and work-related topics with co-workers and colleagues.
- Ability to integrate tasks with co-workers such as clerks, other accountants, supervisors, and managers to observe accounting and administrative requirements and meet deadlines.
- Possess drive and motivation to continuously maintain current knowledge of all related Acts and Regulations.
- Opportunities to grow your career.
- Community based outreach supporting both local and global initiatives and charities.
- Social committees and sports teams.
- Discounts for local vendors and events, including auto supplier discounts.