Senior Cost Accountant

Senior Cost Accountant

For over 65 years, Columbia Helicopters have been a trusted provider of heavy-lift helicopter services. We create new aircraft, fly heavy-lift helicopters around the world, and provide maintenance support to ensure you are mission-ready for critical operations. If you are passionate about aviation, join our Columbia Family!

The Senior Cost Accountant will apply principles of cost accounting to conduct studies which provide detailed cost information not supplied by general accounting systems. This position is a crucial member of the finance organization and will work regularly with the manufacturing operations, aftermarket, and supply chain teams. The position will be supporting cost and management accounting functions, financial reporting and analysis, month-end financial closing, and audit. In addition, the position will require an individual with a robust investigative mindset who can work through efficiency improvements and opportunities as they present.

Cost Management

• Oversees inventory and related work order systems including physical to perpetual to general ledger reconciliations, journal entries, audit explanations, and standard costs
• Monitors and reports periodic requirements of manufacturing systems to ensure timing and accuracy of standards and gross margins and provides meaningful analysis of results
• Supports preparation and execution of annual standard cost roll
• Leads processes involving establishment of standard costs of new parts, and review and analysis of standard costs for existing parts
• Analyzes the purchase price variance general ledger account
• Audits cycle count activity, selection of items to be counted, recount decisions, research of discrepancies, and reports on root causes and progress toward making improvements for greater quantity and physical accuracy
• Prepares, reviews and distributes absorption report and compares with forecast
• Provides cost support to cross functional areas as requested
• Provides product cost information utilized in month end financial closing
• Performs reporting activity throughout the month on margins, absorption, PPV and other metrics to ensure timing and accuracy of standards and gross margins
• Directs development and review of cost analysis reports and works with manufacturing department heads to formulate corrective actions
• Maintains the integrity and accuracy of product cost data
• Updates and distributes program costing on a monthly basis
• May supervise and / or mentor other members of the cost accounting staff

General Accounting

Financial Systems

What We Need From You :

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.