Cost Accountant at Champion Home Builders, Inc. in Leola, PA, USA

Job description

• Work in a place where your team values YOU.
• Champion Home Builder, Inc. wants YOU! We are seeking to hire a Cost Accountant to join our team in the Leola, PA, manufacturing facility of Skyline Homes.
• Summary: Manages product costing and margin analysis for several brands of manufactured houses, including options. Determines costing impact of product modifications and customizations. Provides costing estimates and maintains master model and option price files for quotation purposes of new business. Manages home configuration and standard costing systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintains cost in the Navision ERP system, creating bills of material for models and options, updating bills by exchanging new items being purchased for old items made obsolete, to provide accurate margin information for use by the General Manager and Controller for pricing decisions.
• Local Navision system maintenance (running system update programs, working with the corporate office to implement updates or problem resolution, training others).
• Production floor audits of bills of material for models and options to verify and update Navision bills for as-built items and quantities.
• Maintenance of standard construction specifications for each brand.
• Approves all job orders prior to production.
• Interacts with other departments, including Sales, Engineering, Materials, and Production.
• Tracks commodity costs to monitor the need to initiate or increase material surcharges.
• Ensures maintenance remains up to date to provide current margin information for models and options used to determine price adjustments.
• Maintains all models, options, and Navision price files with approved prices for quoting.
• Assists with the quarterly physical inventory count and valuation.
• Maintains the standard costing system and manages purchase price variances.
• Assists the controller with accounting as it relates to inventories (raw, WIP, finished goods, and cost-of-goods sold, valuations, and reserves).

Requirements

• Must have leadership and organizational skills with the drive to excel and perform at the next level.
• Must be able to exercise independent judgment or adopt or modify methods and standards to meet assigned duties/objectives.
• Must be able to research and problem-solve, devise solutions and recommendations, and report on findings.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as square and linear footages, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume, as it pertains to costing.
• Must have advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and/or 2+ years related experience.
• Accounting and Costing experience in a manufacturing industry preferred.
• Experience with Navision or other ERP systems is a plus.
• Manufactured housing or construction industry knowledge is helpful.

Skills

Required

• Leadership and organizational skills
• Independent judgment
• Research and problem-solving

Benefits

• 401k plan with company match
• paid vacation
• paid holidays
• medical
• Rx
• Dental, vision, and life insurance.