Manager, Cost Accounting

The Manager, Cost Accounting will be responsible for all aspects of cost accounting including refining the company's costing model, supporting processing and engineering teams in a standard job cost based environment, and collaborating with marketing, new business development, and research and development related to costing of new tissues and/or products and line extensions. This position will supervise two Cost Accountants and requires strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work within a team, make logical decisions, and show flexibility.

• Review and refine standards for all tissues, including donor material costs, direct labor, and overhead, and periodically update standard material costs to ensure they are current and accurately reflect manufacturing costs.
• Ensure adequate controls and reviews are in place for Inventory and COGS reporting, including cost of goods sold, internal material transfers, scrapped material, purchase price variances, standard cost changes, excess & obsolete inventory reserve, cost closing process, inventory revaluation, annual physical inventory, monthly inventory reconciliations, capitalized variances, and overhead.
• Review, analyze, and establish standard labor and overhead rates for tissue forms and streamline gross margin reporting process by product business lines.
• Analyze gross margins for products and prepare reports about financial performance, documenting and responding to management regarding manufacturing expenses, trends, and deviations from budgets.
• Work with Operations group to ensure Bills of Materials and routings are accurate.
• Coordinate and conduct year-end physical inventory count and audit with Operations.
• Supervise and develop two Cost Accountants.
• Interface successfully with other peer groups to achieve common goals and objectives.
• Review, analyze, report, and work with IT and ERP system owners to implement process improvements.
• Process month‑end journals applicable to the position, prepare month‑end reconciliations and various financial statement schedules.
• Interface with outside auditors and comply with the company policies and procedures.
• Assist marketing, new business development, and research and development to determine preliminary costs of a project/ new tissue and/or product or a line extension and continuously monitor costing as a tissue and/or product is launched and sold.
• Provide up‑to‑date information on tissue/product costing on a segment basis to allow for segment reporting.
• Additional responsibilities as may be assigned.

• Bachelor's in accounting or cost accounting.
• 5 years experience in cost accounting.
• 3 years leadership and management responsibility.
• CPA preferred but not required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Proficient in PC applications such as MS Word, MS Excel, and PowerPoint; ERP accounting software experience.
• Managing a team of three or more.