Cost Accountant

Your Job

Due to promotion and growth, Phillips-Medisize, a Molex Company, is seeking a Multi-Site Cost Accountant to support our medical device manufacturing operations in Europe - the sites are in Ireland, Poland & Finland.

This role will engage in a diverse and variable scope of responsibilities and experiences, which will contribute toward your personal development and advancement.

The role will be manufacturing costing/analysis, and process development/implementation.

This role will report into the Divisional Costing Manager.

Travel expectations will be less than 10%.

This is an exciting, high impact, challenging role that will participate well beyond the boundaries of a typical cost accountant.

We're looking forward to speaking with entrepreneurial candidates about joining our team at Phillips-Medisize.

This is a hybrid role, and you will sit at our New Richmond, Hudson or Menomonie, WI facilities.

What You Will Do



* Responsible for building and maintaining costing information within SAP.


* Engage in ongoing cost accounting activities, reporting and analysis.


* Participate in annual overhead and labor rate development.


* Carry out program cost studies, ensuring the accuracy of standard costs.


* Support BOM/Routing updates, as well as material cost standards, to accurately reflect manufacturing operations and procurement activities.


* Provide ongoing analysis of KPIs, to help plant level teams identify and address the root cause of manufacturing variances, in a data driven decision making environment.


* Utilize standards to support financial and operational planning and analysis activities - including capacity and labor planning.


* Act as SAP costing and reporting expert, supporting the facility and other users to obtain and understand the information provided.


* Participate in diverse analysis and project work supporting the organization and various levels including operations, costing, quoting, business development and FP&A.


* Stewardship of physical inventory to ensure your sites are operating to their inventory assurance program.


* Stewardship of fixed assets to ensure timely capitalization of assets, assignment of useful life, asset tagging, activity types and cost centers.


* Partner with estimating function to accurately understand and calculate the cost associated with new business opportunities.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)



* Bachelor's degree in an Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.


* Minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar accounting or finance role.


* Experience with Microsoft Office Products, specifically Excel and PowerPoint.


* This role is not open to visa sponsorship.

What Will Put You Ahead



* To be contribution motivated and the ability to help Phillips-Medisize succeed.


* Experience with an ERP system, in particular SAP.


* Experience presenting in front of groups and communicating with various ...