Cost Accounting Specialist

• Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, HSA and Flex Spending.
• Competitive base pay, incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance, and comprehensive benefits.
• 401k Match (6%)
• Educational Assistance (Up to 10k per year)
• 9-80 Work Schedule (This position's standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off).
• On-going learning opportunities within rewarding work environment.
• Onsite Cafeteria, remodeled with new equipment Fitness Center, and Outdoor fitness track.

• Monitoring of movement of inventory between contracts to ensure proper usage and costing by contract.
• Monitoring of part classifications and utilization of common inventory to ensure proper identification of parts and costing for allocation of cost to contracts.
• Make corrections to part costing in Oracle and prepare journal entries, as needed, to address costing issues identified.
• Maintain databases and macros used in the costing monitoring process
• Provide metrics and root cause analysis to support continuous improvement
• Provide support for miscellaneous requests for BOM (Bill of Material) pricing, WAC (Weighted Average Cost) updates, and other activities.
• Develop and manage corrective actions requests related to receiving, costing and purchasing issues from various functions - provide written guidance, validate actions taken and perform root cause/ corrective actions
• Subject matter expert on material costing participating on various cross functional teams/projects supporting business requirements.
• Provide support to external, internal, management and government auditors
• Provide support to accounts payable in vendor related reconciliations
• Create, update and maintain process playbooks for key responsibilities.
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelors degree required. Accounting or Finance majors preferred.
• 3-5 years experience in a similar role required
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work with diverse group of people and drive results.
• Ability to work with large datasets and reporting tools (Cognos, OBIEE, Pivot Tables, Microsoft Power BI)
• Exceptional computer skills - in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint (knowledge of pivots tables strongly preferred). Experience in MS Access and creating and editing complex macros highly preferred.
• Oracle eBusiness experience a plus.

Additional Information:

• This position may require eligibility to obtain a US security clearance. (Non-US Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance)
• Able to bring continuous improvement processes and methodologies to the position. Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills is required. Works well in team and individually
• Must be able to work occasional evening and/or weekend overtime as required