Cost Accountant

Phillips-Medisize, a Molex Company, is seeking a Multi-Site Cost Accountant to support our medical device manufacturing operations in Europe – the sites are in Poland & Ireland. This role will engage in a diverse and variable scope of responsibilities and experiences, which will contribute toward your personal development and advancement. The role will be manufacturing costing/analysis, and process development/implementation. This role will report into the Divisional Costing Manager. Travel expectations will be less than 10%.

This is an exciting, high impact, challenging role that will participate well beyond the boundaries of a typical cost accountant. We’re looking forward to speaking with entrepreneurial candidates about joining our team at Phillips-Medisize.

This is a hybrid role, and you will sit at our Siemianowice facility, in Poland. 

What You Will Do In Your Role

• Responsible for building and maintaining costing information within SAP.

• Engage in ongoing cost accounting activities, reporting and analysis.

• Participate in annual overhead and labor rate development. 

• Carry out program cost studies, ensuring the accuracy of standard costs.

• Support BOM/Routing updates, as well as material cost standards, to accurately reflect manufacturing operations and procurement activities.

• Provide ongoing analysis of KPIs, to help plant level teams identify and address the root cause of manufacturing variances, in a data driven decision making environment.

• Utilize standards to support financial and operational planning and analysis activities – including capacity and labor planning.

• Act as SAP costing and reporting expert, supporting the facility and other users to obtain and understand the information provided.

• Participate in diverse analysis and project work supporting the organization and various levels including operations, costing, quoting, business development and FP&A.

• Stewardship of physical inventory to ensure your sites are operating to their inventory assurance program.

• Stewardship of fixed assets to ensure timely capitalization of assets, assignment of useful life, asset tagging, activity types and cost centers.

• Partner with estimating function to accurately understand and calculate the cost associated with new business opportunities.

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in an Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field.

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar accounting or finance role.

• Experience with Microsoft Office Products, specifically Excel and PowerPoint.

• This role is not open to visa sponsorship.

What Will Put You Ahead

• To be contribution motivated and the ability to help Phillips-Medisize succeed. 

• Experience with an ERP system, in particular SAP.

• Experience presenting in front of groups and communicating with various levels within an organization or company.

• Experience in Manufacturing operations.

• Experience with data analysis, including the use of BI tools such as Power BI and Tableau.