Senior Cost Accounting Analyst

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Job description

Overview:
Con-Air Industries, a Filtration Group Company, is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive by providing quality air filters for homes and community spaces. The Con-Air team is comprised of a passionate workforce that is driven to help families everywhere breathe better. You can find Con-Air's quality filters on several e-commerce platforms, available directly to consumers under the Aerostar brand. Learn more at

The Senior Cost Accounting Analyst works within the finance team to provide financial support to business partners to ensure the execution of Forecast and Close tasks. Responsible for developing forecasts, performing month-end close, and analyzing results to help provide management with clear and accurate reporting of business cost performance, risks, and opportunities. Responsible for inventory management and controls, reporting and tracking as well as providing support to the annual audit process. Responsible for ensuring overall proper cost financial controls are maintained. This position develops analytical, decision-making, and communication skills and fosters a deep understanding of the manufacturing and supply chain systems and processes.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for forecast and close activities, including developing the annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly closes related to logistics and product cost. Investigate and understand variances in plans

Ensure that corporate policies, guidelines and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles are adhered to across the inventory and cost accounting process

Oversee and monitor cost savings tracking and reporting

Actively participate in discussions regarding key commodity planning assumptions

Reconcile inventory accounts and provide critical insights into the Product Supply Balance Sheet reporting (Inventory, Reserves, etc.)

Support the standard costing process, including maintaining periodic cost rolls/annual updates. Ensure the use of consistent methodology and provide insights and analysis of the key drivers of change

Consistently demonstrate active financial leadership by partnering with cross-functional partners within Operations, Finance, etc., to drive business results and meet business objectives

Actively contribute towards business goals by providing insights

Inventory accounting and controls

Leadership of small finance team

Qualifications:
Minimum 5 years of related experience with some exposure to cost accounting and finance required

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Business required or equivalent experience

Strong understanding of cost accounting and finance concepts required

Demonstrated leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)

Demonstrated ability to interact, influence effectively, and communicate with multiple levels of the organization

Preferred Consumer Packaged Goods or Manufacturing industry experience

QAD or Sage financial reporting system experience a big plus

More About Filtration Group

Filtration Group is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the fast-growing and rapidly-evolving global filtration industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action.

The Company began in 2009 and has rapidly grown organically and through a thoughtful acquisition strategy to be a global leader in the highly attractive filtration industry. Filtration Group has the broadest portfolio of solutions in the industry and has had a particular focus on building a leading platform of solutions focused on the Life Sciences and Indoor Air Quality end markets which are rapidly growing in the current market environment. Filtration Group produces mission critical products with high replacement rates. Over 80 percent of the Company's revenue comes from replacement / consumable products, many of which are specified into customer's products or processes. With revenues over $2 billion, Filtration Group is consistently recognized as the fastest growing and one of the largest filtration businesses in the world and has a global footprint of 141 facilities in 28 countries. Filtration Group has over 10,000 employees who are united in their Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive.

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