Cost Accountant

1 month ago

Charleston, United States Super-Sod Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Why join Super-Sod?

Super-Sod is an organization that has a 70-year reputation for outstanding leadership, innovation, and expertise. Our employees use their creativity and talent to invent new solutions, meet new demands, and offer the most effective services and products in the industry. With your active involvement, creativity, and support, Super-Sod will continue to achieve its goals.

Super-Sod offers a welcoming environment to both our customers and employees. Our teams work highly collaboratively and are proud of the dynamic culture which cultivates company-wide growth and teamwork. Super-Sod employees stand out as being industry professionals who offer knowledge, experience, and a passion to serve. In turn, the Company provides our family of employees’ competitive wage and benefit offerings to ensure their needs are exceeded and their own families are provided for. In addition to numerous awards for quality products, Super-Sod is honored to be consecutively named a Top Workplace by the Atlanta Journal Constitution year after year.

In addition to good working conditions and competitive pay, it is Super-Sod’s policy to provide a combination of supplemental benefits to all eligible employees. In keeping with this goal, each benefit program has been carefully devised. These benefits include flexible paid time-off, such as vacations and holidays, as well as comprehensive and innovative health and wellness plans that include products like medical, dental, vision, HSA, and supplemental life, accident, hospital, and critical illness. We are constantly studying and evaluating our benefit programs and policies to better meet present and future requirements. These policies have been developed over the years and continue to be refined to keep up with changing times and needs.

The Cost Accountant will perform advanced cost accounting analyses to compare estimated costs to actual costs and prepare a variety of related budget reports.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  1. Gathers and maintains database along with analyzing company's operational cost.
  2. Establishes standard costs of production.
  3. Determine and segment fixed and variable costs
  4. Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual cost forecasts
  5. Develop and analyze cost standards to identify inaccuracies and explain variances.
  6. Carrying out cost-volume-profit (CVP) analysis.
  7. Establishing costs of business processes such as administration, labor, shipping, etc.
  8. Performs account reconciliations.
  9. Preparing audit reports and presenting their findings to management.
  10. Recommending changes to the company’s processes and policies to reduce costs and maximize profit.
  11. Advising executives and upper management on appropriate costing based on financial data.
  12. Managing the company’s balance sheet and accounting books.
  13. Supporting other company accountants with invoicing and capital expenditure.
  14. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Competencies

  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Knowledge of general financial accounting and cost accounting.
  • Understanding of and the ability to adhere to generally accepted accounting principles.
  • Ability to correctly prepare tax reports.
  • Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or similar software, and accounting software.

Supervisory Responsibility

None.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office and, in some cases, from a remote offsite location. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

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.

The position operates primarily sedentary, and requires the ability to communicate verbally, as well as use hands to fingers to handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus. This employee requires full range of motion of arms and requires movement and use of limbs; this position requires good manual dexterity and coordination. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies weighing up to 50 pounds.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours can change at the discretion of the Corporate Controller; though typical hours of work are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Some weekend hours will be necessary to accommodate any issues that might arise.

Travel

Minimal travel is expected for this position.

Required Education and Experience

  1. Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting is required for this position.
  2. 2+ years of related experience as a Cost Accountant, working in job costing analysis.
  3. 2+ years experience with month-end procedures and cut-offs.
  4. In-depth understanding of GAAP.
  5. Working knowledge and experience with Sage 100 or similar system, ERP background.
  6. Certified Public Accountant or Certified Management Accountant designation
  7. Must be 18 years of age or older.
  8. Pre-employment background check and drug screening required.


Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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