Cost Accounting Manager
Cost Accounting Manager
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Job Description
Overview
Minerals Technologies Inc. (MTI) is a leading technology-driven specialty minerals company that develops produces and markets a broad range of mineral and mineral-based products related systems and services. MTI serves a wide range of consumer and industrial markets including household and personal care paper foundry steel construction and environmental solutions around the world. The company reported global sales of $2.1 billion in 2024.
MTI focuses on two major segments Consumer & Specialties and Engineered Solutions.
Our Consumer & Specialties segment offers technologically enhanced products to consumer-driven end markets plus specialty additives that become functional components in a variety of consumer and industrial goods. This segment includes our Household & Personal Care and Specialty Additives product lines. The Household & Personal Care product line provides mineral-to-market products that serve consumer-oriented end markets including Pet Care Personal Care Fabric Care Edible Oil and Renewable Fuel Purification. Our Specialty Additives product line provides mineral-based technologies serving Paper Packaging Sealants & Adhesives Paint & Coatings Ceramics Plastics Food & Pharmaceutical markets.
Our Engineered Solutions segment offers advanced process technologies and solutions that are designed to improve our customers manufacturing processes and projects. This segment includes our High-Temperature Technologies and Environmental & Infrastructure product lines. Our High-Temperature Technologies product line offers specially-formulated blends and technologies primarily for Foundry and Steelmaking industries. Our Environmental & Infrastructure product line provides waterproofing water purification remediation and other fluid management technologies for critical projects for Remediation Water Purification and Infrastructure.
MTIis committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive work environment for all employees. In our offices around the world our differences are respected and valued as essential to MTIs continued growth and innovation. Our goal is to ensure that all employees at MTI experience our workplace as a welcoming and respectful environment where they can achieve their full potential.
What We Offer:
- Competitive pay commensurate with experience
- Health/Dental/Vision plans
- 401k company match
- Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability & Long-Term Disability
- Educational Assistance
- Employee Assistance Plan
Job Summary
The Cost Accounting Manager under general supervision is responsible for participating in the MTI accounting activities for the North American operations to ensure that accurate timely financial data in accordance with GAAP is available for the business managers. This position is also responsible for supporting the business by maintaining the inventory items and related costing within Oracle.
Responsibilities
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Performs month-end cost accounting close entries accruals and analysis
- Maintains the Oracle product master files and creates/updates production formulas
- Assists with the preparation of the annual standard cost budget and forecasts
- Prepares monthly account reconciliations and performs Balance Sheet reviews with management
- Prepares various monthly decision management reports
- Analyzes production costs investigates unusual costs and ensures proper procedures are being followed
- Exercises expertise in preparing detailed business process and cost analysis
- Supervise and manage Cost Accounting staff if applicable
- Maintains a familiarity with new technologies to the extent needed to assist the business in enabling these new technologies.
- Assists in review and development of Oracle/ADI/Discoverer/HFM reports to support management
Other Duties & Responsibilities
- Evaluate current processes with an emphasis on continuous improvement
- Evaluate internal control structure to maintain compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
- Support the business unit finance team
- Interact with internal and external auditors where necessary
- Perform special projects as needed
Operational Excellence/Lean
- Actively participates in the implementation of sustainable improvement processes such as 5S Kaizen Daily Management Control Standard Work and Problem Solving.
Qualifications
The requirements listed in the sections that follow are representative of the knowledge skills and/or abilities required to perform the duties of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions (primary duties) of the job.
Education:
- Bachelors degree in accounting or finance with a
- Minimum of five to ten years cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.
- CPA is not required but preferred.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities:
- Must have demonstrated knowledge/experience in the development of standard costs for an operation including determining departmental allocations activity drivers as well as follow on monthly variance analysis.
- Must have a thorough understanding of US GAAP and have well-developed computer skills.
- Candidates strongly preferred to have Oracle costing experience.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is preferred.
- Experience with Oracle and HFM is a plus.
- Must be a self-starter with good management communication interpersonal and general business skills along with strong mathematical analytical organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Must be able to gather organize and analyze data draw conclusions and handle stress.
- Principle working relationships - interact with employees at all levels inside and outside of process team.
- Prior experience managing other individuals is a plus.
Travel:
- Travel may occur on an infrequent basis.
Working Conditions:
- While performing the duties of this job the employee is typically required to regularly conduct work in a controlled office environment moving around the office as needed sitting at a desk using office equipment including but not limited to a personal computer fax machine copier and telephone read write listen speak and understand English have the ability to work independently be dependable and maintain confidential information integrity and composure at all times.
- Constant contact with individuals internal and external to the organization occurs via various methods of communication typically including face-to-face discussions electronic mail phone calls written letters and/or faxes.
- The employee is expected to be self-directed take initiative and be persistent when appropriate to accomplish necessary duties and keep busy without prompting. Additionally the employee is expected to be adaptable/flexible to changing work assignments analytical organized and detail-oriented perform multiple tasks at once compose correspondence and other documentation in a professional manner express ideas constructively actively listen to others manage time effectively and efficiently to meet deadlines learn and memorize procedures display a cooperative attitude read understand and follow all company job specific and safety policies/procedures and attend/use all required training.
Work Hours:
- Must have ability to work the shift/number of hours in which duties need to be accomplished including overtime holidays and weekends as necessary.
EOE
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
