Cleaver Brooks is looking for a Cost Accountant to join our team in Monroe, WI. The Cost Accountant rovides accounting and financial support and leadership for the Monroe facility. This includes understanding and reporting on cost analysis, cost control systems, accounting issues, internal reporting, preparation and recording of journal entries, preparation of monthly account reconciliations, and other similar activities or ad hoc requests.  This individual must be a strong accountant who is detail oriented and has solid analytical skills and abilities.

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Job Location: Monroe, WI

Essential functions:

Reporting to Plant Controller. Provide proper level of customer service to the rest of the organization. Take ownership of costing processes and ensure accuracy, understanding, consistency with Company policy, consistency of application and compliance with GAAP. Establish and build effective and productive relationships with operations, finance and other departments. Perform month, quarter and year end close processes, meeting deadlines. Book journal entries and provide appropriate detail level review and analysis.  Verify appropriate reporting is correct and accurate. Prepare monthly account reconciliations as assigned. Identify and validate reconciliation balance drivers. Consolidates and analyzes all cost accounting procedures together with other internal reports. Perform monthly financial variance analysis, including research, documentation and communication of account fluctuations. Support Plant Controller in ensuring audit requests are provided timely, quarterly and annual statements are accurate and timely and proposed adjustments are minimalized. Analyze product margin performance and make recommendations for future consideration. Help develop and analyze components of forecasts and budgets as required. Ensure company projects are accomplished in efficient and cost-effective manners. Assists in preparation of capital requests and ROI analysis. Other costing, analysis and projects as assigned by members of management. Other duties as directed.

Basic Requirements:

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting is required.

Experience: 

2+ years of progressive accounting experience, with manufacturing preferred. Previous experience with performing account reconciliations and booking journal entries required, and previous costing experience preferred.

Personal Competencies:

Proficient in MS Word, Excel, IFS and other software programs. Flexibility to work on special projects and unexpected events while completing routine tasks on a timely basis. Demonstrated capability to interface and maintain effective relationships with all departments and employees in a team-oriented environment. Demonstrated ability to find better and more efficient ways of doing things. Responsive to operational and department needs. Flexible/adaptive to change. Demonstrated proficiency and understanding balance sheet reconciliations. Creative problem solver. Ability to synthesize complex or diverse information. Inspires and motivates others to perform well, accepts feedback from others. Well organized, dependable, punctual, strong work ethic. Strong analytical skill set - ability to analyze problem and develop meaningful solutions.

Internal Contacts: Regular (16-35%)  Make contacts that involve controversy where practices and procedures and/or methods do not provide precise direction as to desired outcomes.

External Contacts: Regular (16-35%)  Make contacts that involve controversy where practices and procedures and/or methods do not provide precise direction as to desired outcomes.

Physical Skill and Effort: Work requires a few simple, but rapid hand operations. Work requires simple, easy muscular movements.

Working Conditions and Hazards: Normal plant, shop, field or office conditions. From time to time, slightly disagreeable features. Negligible/little or no exposure to hazardous conditions.    

Benefits of Being a Cleaver-Brooks Employee:

Competitive salary Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, maternity support program, discounted virtual physician visits, voluntary medical benefits (Critical Illness, Hospital Care, and Accidental Injury), FSA, HSA, life insurance, short term and long-term disability Cash matching 401(k) plan Employee assistance program (EAP) Pet insurance Employee discount program Tuition assistance Paid time off and 11 paid holidays

Who is Cleaver-Brooks:

Cleaver-Brooks is the market leader in providing fully integrated boiler and burner systems. We lead the boiler/burner industry due to our unmatched distribution network’s ability to deliver the knowledge, service, training, and support that are essential to long-term performance. Our customers will tell you that we are the only equipment provider that manufactures boilers, burners, controls, and a full array of ancillary and aftermarket products. They will also mention that our unique single-source capability means that we can deliver fully integrated boiler room solutions that reduce overall costs and optimize space. It is our focus on products that deliver the most efficient, reliable, safe, and environmentally sustainable solutions that differentiate us in the marketplace. Cleaver-Brooks continues a 90+ year legacy of providing the customers we serve with extraordinary products designed to deliver unsurpassed performance through the power of commitment.

This description indicates the general nature of the tasks and responsibilities required of positions given this classification. It is not intended as a complete list of specific duties and responsibilities. Nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of management to assign, direct, and control the specific duties of individuals performing this function. The Company reserves the right to change, modify, amend, add to or delete from any section of this document as it deems, in its judgement, to be proper.

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