Cost Accountant
Manassas is one of Catalent’s gummy technology development and manufacturing facilities in North America. The site manufactures organic and vegan-based nutraceuticals via confection to enhance wellness for all consumers. Simply put – we make healthy soft chews and lozenges. Within the Catalent network, we offer a broad range of integrated formulation and analytical services to solve difficult development and manufacturing challenges.
Position Summary:
Catalent Wellness Virginia is a rapidly growing manufacturer of dietary supplements in a soft chew format. The Cost Accountant is to proactively participate in the Finance Department’s daily production review and analysis of all costs for the manufacturing site, directly reporting to the Senior Cost Accountant.
The Role:
- Review and entry of daily production and consumption records
- Perform finance verification of monthly raw material, WIP, and finished good inventory cycle counts. Audit and maintain the cycle count documentation from all cycle counts, ensuring its accuracy and completeness. Ensure the site maintains compliance with counting frequency and completeness requirements
- Monitor inventories and facilitates the paperwork approval, tracking, and filing process to maintain accuracy
- Analyze data for discrepancies in manufactured product costs, by reviewing the manufacturing variances and identifying any discrepancies in routings or bills of materials
- Assist in the analysis and roll of standard costs as necessary. Ensure all active Raw Materials and Intermediate items have accurate standard costs
- Ensure integrity of standard costs and item attributes that impact costing or standard accounting flows
- Assist in annual budget process with standard cost rate development
- Perform other monthly and quarterly financial reports as necessary
- Other duties as assigned
The Candidate:
- Bachelor’s degree required, with majors in Accounting or a related field of study
- 3 + years’ experience in Accounting required, Manufacturing experience desired
- Experience in cost accounting preferred
- Advanced proficiency with various ERP systems, Sage or JDE preferred
- Advanced PC skills, including advanced spreadsheet functions (e.g. Pivot Tables, Lookups, Formulas)
- Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-15 pounds.
Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career! Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference.
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