Cost Accountant Search

Founded in 1967, STARPLAST is a family-owned B2B company specializing in the development and manufacturing of high-quality plastic injection-molded products, including home goods, toys, and storage solutions. With manufacturing facilities located in Israel, the USA, and Europe, STARPLAST has grown into a global brand, offering innovative and sustainable solutions to its customers. The company takes pride in its strong focus on quality, rapid product development, and environmental sustainability through the use of recyclable and eco-friendly materials.

Additionally, STARPLAST supports social responsibility initiatives, including employing individuals with disabilities and assisting at-risk youth in Israel through the 'Beit Singer' boarding school.

This is a full-time, on-site Cost Accountant role based in Humble, TX. The cost accountant will collaborate with the distribution centers and manufacturing to collect and provide accurate costing information to support executive and heads of department when setting budgets and strategic goals for the organization.

• Help with developing and maintaining the cost accounting system, and bill of materials for new products.
• Update and maintain standard costs for all products.
• Make sure all BOMs are accurate and correct
• Audit BOMs on a regular basis to ensure all relevant costs are captured.
• Analyze production costs and prepare regular reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs.
• Post inventory transactions into the system.
• Analyze any changes to the BOMs to determine the effect on margins.
• Coordinate with inventory cycle count teams to ensure inventory accuracy.
• Run on-hand inventory reports and compare with the general ledger.
• Analyze and investigate any significant inventory variances, favorable or unfavorable.
• Coordinate with operations for period end cut-off and any inventory adjustments.
• Perform inventory reconciliations at period end; investigate variances.
• Analyze cost and recommend cost-saving strategies.
• Heavily involved in month-end and year-end closing.
• Balance sheet account reconciliation.

• Cost benefit analysis reports
• Make-or-Buy cost analysis
• Profitability analysis by product or by product group.
• Responsible for inventory reports

• Advanced in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint, Excel required
• ERP experience required
• High attention to detail
• Establishing target costs based on historical data, possible engineering studies, and market conditions.
• Using predetermined standard costs to record inventory and cost of goods sold.
• Calculating and analyzing variances between standard and actual costs to identify inefficiencies.
• Using variance analysis to support decision-making related to pricing, production methods, and procurement

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
• 3+ years recent cost accountant experience

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Starplast USA, LLC prohibits discrimination based on the following protected categories: race, creed, color, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy), marital status, civil status, domestic partnership status, familial status, religion, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or disability.