Cost Accountant

Position Summary:

Catalent is a global, high-growth, private company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives.  

This 206,878 square-foot facility, located in the Philadelphia area is Catalent’s global Center of Excellence for Clinical Supply Packaging.  Catalent offers GMP secondary packaging and clinical labeling services throughout our global network. Packaging can be configured to hold a single product, or multiple products as determined by study requirements. We offer manual patient kit assembly along with semi-automated and automated wallet sealing and high-speed automated carding to meet the needs of studies of all sizes. For temperature sensitive products and those with minimal to zero allowable time out of environment, we can perform secondary packaging in refrigerated and frozen packaging rooms or over dry ice depending upon your project needs.  Using our Clinicopia global labeling system with its multi-lingual label phrase library we can design single panel, booklet labels or our unique Peel-ID™ safe storage labels for your studies. Single panel and Peel-ID™ safe storage labels can be conveniently reviewed and approved online via our Fusion portal before being printed and inspected at our facilities.

Catalent Pharma Solutions in Philadelphia is hiring a Cost Accountant. The Cost Accountant role is accountable both for the ongoing analysis of inventory and standard costing systems, including manufacturing performance analysis, and for assisting with general corporate accounting duties. These general accounting duties include assisting with the month end closing process, completing periodic financial reporting requirements, assisting with completing account reconciliations and ad hoc project work as assigned. This role will assist on projects and monthly activities associated with the Oral & Specialty Delivery business unit to develop reporting and analysis in support of the site.

This is a full-time, hourly role.   This role is onsite, on 1st shift. The core hours are Monday – Friday, 8am-5pm. The hours may very depending on the business need.

Catalent is committed to a Patient First culture through excellence in quality and compliance, and to the safety of every patient, consumer, and Catalent employee. 

The Role:

Review and entry of daily production and consumption recordsPerform finance verification of monthly raw material, WIP, and finished good inventory cycle countsAudit and maintain the cycle count documentation from all cycle counts, ensuring its accuracy and completenessEnsure the site maintains compliance with counting frequency and completeness requirementsMonitor inventories and facilitates the paperwork approval, tracking, and filing process to maintain accuracyAnalyze data for discrepancies in manufactured product costs, by reviewing the manufacturing variances and identifying any discrepancies in routings or bills of materialsAssist in the analysis and roll of standard costsEnsure all active Raw Materials and Intermediate items have accurate standard costsAll other duties as assigned

The Candidate:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field along with three+ years of relevant experience in Accounting or ManufacturingSupply Chain experience is strongly preferredAdvanced proficiency with various ERP systems is preferred, JDE is strongly preferredAdvanced Computer skills, including advanced spreadsheet functions (e.g. Pivot Tables, Lookups, Formulas)Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-15 pounds

Why You Should Join Catalent:

Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process Diverse, inclusive culture Positive working environment focusing on continually improving processes to remain innovativePotential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidaysSeveral Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&IDynamic, fast-paced work environmentCommunity engagement and green initiatives Generous 401K match Company match on donations to organizationsMedical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment Tuition Reimbursement – Let us help you finish your degree or start a new degree!WellHub program to promote overall physical wellness Perkspot - offers exclusive or private discounts from approximately 900+ merchants in a wide array of categories

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

    

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