Cost Accounting Supervisor

Primary Responsibilities

• Leading, executing, and driving unit cost reduction efforts.
• Providing an accurate decision support system to facilitate pertinent business decisions.
• Evaluate and implement continuous improvements to the financial systems and processes to ensure reliability and consistency with Arconic policies and procedures, and efficient and timely responses.
• Maintaining the financial records in accordance with GAAP and Alcoa accounting policy.
• Leading the closing process, including, but not limited to liaising with FSS, Reviewing and signing off on account reconciliations and Balance-sheet reviews.
• Leading the financial & business process audit, maintaining strong internal controls to ensure accuracy of financial statements
• Leading, supervising, and coaching the development and prioritization of activities of direct reports.
• Evaluating financial implications of long-term commercial contracts and recommend opportunity to improve and/or protect existing profit levels.
• Ensuring that all non-metal entries are prepared in accordance with GAAP and Alcoa accounting policy.
• The standard costing system and decision support tools. The incumbent will be an expert user strategic margins, Oracle and Hyperion.
• Leading the Annual Burden budget process and periodic review of burden rates

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance from an accredited institution
• Minimum 5 years experience in Accounting or Finance

• Experience with standard costing systems and budgets
• MBA/CPA/CMA
• Relevant experience in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with Enterprise Business Systems such as Oracle or SAP
• Experience in data base query tools such as Microsoft Access, Oracle Discoverer, Hyperion, Essbase, Smartview and related programs
• Experience with AS400