Cost Accounting Supervisor jobs in Oklahoma

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Position Summary

This position will report to the Regional Controller and will be responsible for the financial operations of the business. The Controller functions as a business partner with the local VP and management team along with corporate/operations finance to effectively manage, control, analyze and communicate all financial aspects of the business. The Controller will lead the financial staff at the business ensuring a reasonably pleasant work environment and is accountable for the timeliness and accuracy of all business-level financial responsibilities. The Controller is also the primary financial liaison with corporate/operations financial leadership.

Essential Job Functions

• Responsibility and accountability for the timeliness and accuracy of all financial aspects of the business. This includes but is not limited to the balance sheet, general ledger, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, capital expenditures, daily production costs, variance analysis, bill of materials, adherence to corporate policies, petty cash, accounts payables and receivables, business analysis, product recall tracking and reporting, accounting for and reporting of product sales. Work with internal and external audit as necessary to provide support for audit requests.
• Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of accounting professionals; ensure accounting activities are completed timely and accurately.
• Work in depth with local management to understand and communicate the financial position of the business and make recommendations for improvements. This could include attending and/or effectively leading formal meetings with location management and/or employees to discuss business issues and ensure timely follow up on action items resulting from these meetings.
• Fully understand the production process via walkthroughs and regular interactions with employees. Identify controls and/or lack of controls in the process that will impact the local financials.
• Responsible for local internal controls as well as adherence to company controls and policies. Facilitate and compile all internal and external audit requests including necessary backup.
• Accurate and timely completion and analysis of forecasts and annual planning budgets as well as monthly, quarterly and annual comparison to company and local objectives.
• As a member of the business management staff the Controller will encounter various ad-hoc requests and non-financial business issues on a daily basis that must be dealt with in a timely and professional manner with limited guidance while using good judgement that represents the policies and values of the company when making those decisions.
• Write and verbally communicate capital expenditure requests as well as track spending to those requests and close out projects once completed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance
• 3 Years of Related Experience in a Leadership Role
• 8 Years of Accounting Experience
• Proficient with Microsoft office, including skills with Outlook, Word and Excel

Preferred Qualifications

• Manufacturing experience preferred
• SAP experience a plus
• US GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) Preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience working under tight deadlines, while ensuring a high level of accuracy
• Experience with detailed research and analysis
• Experience communicating and working with mid to upper-level management
• Full understanding and experience with payroll, accounts payable, cost accounting, general ledger accounting, budgeting and capital expenditures
• Supervisory experience or equivalent team leadership experience
• Strong research and analysis skills
• Ability to identify issues and solve problems independently and accurately under time constraints
• Ability to maintain good working relationships with location manager and supervisors
• Strong communication skills including public speaking to groups of 50-200 employees as well as the ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally with upper-level senior management
• Ability to effectively lead the department to adhere to policies and meet department deadlines
• Ability to complete time-sensitive projects on your own with limited but reasonable guidance
• Ability to effectively write and communicate capital expenditure requests

Environmental/Working Conditions

• Ability to work in an office and plant environment with exposure to noise, equipment and machinery
• Occasional out-of-area overnight travel is expected

Physical Requirements

• Usual office environment with frequent sitting, walking, and standing, and occasional climbing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and balancing. Frequent use of eye, hand, and finger coordination enabling the use of office machinery. Oral and auditory capacity enabling interpersonal communication as well as communication through automated devices such as the telephone. The noise level in the work environment ranges from normal office levels to loud