Cost Accounting Manager

EnerSys is a global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications. We have over thirty manufacturing and assembly plants worldwide servicing over 10,000 customers in more than 100 countries. Worldwide headquarters are located in Reading, PA, USA with regional headquarters in Europe and Asia. We complement our extensive line of Motive Power and Energy Systems with a full range of integrated services and systems. With sales and service locations throughout the world, and over 100 years of battery experience, EnerSys is the power/full solution for stored DC power products.

What We’re Offering

• Paid Holidays
• Medical, vision and dental
• Life Insurance, long term disability
• Tuition reimbursement plan
• Defined Pension Plan

Compensation Range: 92,600-121,000

Compensation may vary based on applicant's work experience, education level, skill set, and/or location.

This is a current vacant position.

Job Purpose

Alpha Technologies Ltd., an EnerSys company, has an opportunity for a cost accounting manager to join our finance team in our Burnaby, BC, Canada office. Reporting to the financial controller, Energy Systems Americas, Canada and working closely with the operations team, the cost accounting manager will act as the key go-to person on behalfof the finance team. Performing high quality analysis over sales, COGS, and gross margin, and communicating and working with the operations team, this position will play an important role in improving processes and providing information for business decisions. #BBY

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Be a business partner to operations.
• Lead the cost accounting team.
• Prepare manufacturing annual budget and monthly forecasts.
• Consolidate entity-level P&L annual budget and monthly forecasts.
• Ownership of forecasting accuracy.
• Prepare and present to finance and operations management weekly and monthly results and reports,comparing and analyzing actual results with budget and forecasts.
• Recommending actions to the management team.
• Ownership of standard cost and the annual standard cost roll.
• Review inventory balance sheet account reconciliations and analysis to ensure accuracy and compliance with GAAP.
• Oversight and ownership of the inventory reserve provision.
• Responsible for compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) for inventory and COGS.
• Lead the annual physical inventory.
• Liaise with external auditors in annual audit in the areas of sales, inventory, and costing.
• Responsible for system-related changes required on a periodic basis.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of progressive work experience
• Manufacturing cost accounting experience
• Excellent communication, both orally and in writing
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, US GAAP is an asset
• Material requirements planning (MRP) system experience
• Experience managing a team

Preferred Qualifications

• Accounting designation
• Electronics assembly or similar industry experience
• Enterprise-wide resource planning (ERP) system experience
• Financial planning & analysis (FP&A) experience
• Experience in publicly traded company
• Exposure to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)

General Job Requirements

• This position will work in an office setting, expect minimal physical demands.

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