API Heat Transfer is looking for people who enjoy being part of transformation. We have a new mission, new leaders, and are accelerating our path to Lean Cultural Change. If you like to fix things, and want to be part of a new API, we'd love to talk to you about being an Cost Accountant on our team!

What We Offer You:

• Opportunity to learn from and contribute to a premier finance team!
• Be part of leading-edge technology for the heat transfer industry
• Ability to impact customers across multiple industries
• Full health & welfare benefits, 401(k), PTO, and developmental opportunities!

What You Will Do:

The Cost Accountant will interface with internal partners including Operations, Supply Chain, Facilities, and Manufacturing. The Cost Accountant plans, organizes, directs, and controls the inventory and accounting and control function for the assigned plant, reports operational results, and supports the budgeting process and financial analysis reporting for the plant.

• Manages cost accounting activities including maintaining accurate books and records and strong internal control processes.
• Owns standard cost calculations and partners with plant staff to ensure proper bill of material maintenance and routings.
• Supports preparation of financial analyses including variance analyses, and monthly management reporting.
• Improves plant’s financial status by analyzing results versus forecasts; identifying trends; recommending profitable actions.
• Performs month end closing processes, primarily related to the plant’s inventories and cost.
• Assists with general accounting duties for the business unit accounting team including certain balance sheet reconciliations, intercompany entries, monthly financial reporting and other journal entries as needed.
• Assists with preparation of monthly detailed Inventory Reserve for Inventory reporting and works with Plant Leadership to ensure the accuracy of reported inventories.
• Prepares cost/projection analysis of new business opportunities and existing business relationships, including pricing new business and maintaining prices on existing business.
• Partners with local operations leadership to plan, execute and record inventory counts and controls.
• Performs special projects aimed at supporting various Operational Excellence initiatives, controlling expenses, increasing profits, improving cash flow, and improving efficiencies at the plant.
• Establish and monitor internal controls to ensure that accounting activities are in accordance with established legal regulatory and company policies and procedures.
• Adopt our cultural attributes to create a Safe workplace, Excel in improving the company, Respect and encourage others, Value the promise to our customers, and Embrace teamwork.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance, Business or related, and at least three years’ experience in cost accounting
• Service oriented approach where you partner with internal and external customers.
• Ability to understand the manufacturing environment and the associated financial processes; knowledge of supply chain, receiving, inventory flow, operations process and manufacturing principles
• Proven experience assessing problem situations to identify causes, gather and process relevant information, generate possible solutions, and make recommendations and/or resolve the issue
• Experience analyzing transactional level detail in an ERP (Oracle, Peoplesoft, PLEX or similar) system and articulate the key findings to management
• Advanced MS Office Skills; Advanced EXCEL user, Pivot table, VLOOKUP, etc.
• A desire to be part of an organization that is transforming and growing!

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