POSITION SUMMARY
This position supports profitability improvement and operational efficiency through cost accounting and business planning. Responsibilities include cost analysis in manufacturing, profitability evaluation of new models, and reporting to management. Experience in a JIT environment and understanding of the PDCA cycle are valuable for this role.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Cost Accounting
Analyze the production costs and diagnosing the finance issues for improving the company’s profitability and determining the company's financial needs or goals for the future and how to achieve them.
Manage applications of cost accounting principles to conduct studies, which provide detailed cost information for each section to work on for process and efficiency improvement.
Improve and maintain system to calculate real-time in-house cost for finished goods, parts, and per line basis, and review progress and ensure improvement.
Calculate and review labor rates for each section and work cell, and various overhead rates to identify potential bottleneck of causing inefficiency to manpower and task efficiency.
Create and review product profitability report for new/current models to management including a break-even point analysis between the sales and fix/variable cost to ensure profitability of each new model.
Support the cost accounting unification project for the entire organization.
General Duties
Assist and report to Business Planning Manager in furnishing monthly “budget vs. actual” variance analysis, and cost accounting information, presented to President for further management decision and/or North America headquarters.
Prepare periodical reports submitted to the Japanese headquarters.
Communicate with each department as the liaison of Business Planning to promote their daily activities scheduled in Action Plan project and other Business Planning initiated projects.
Act as a primary liaison of promoting office for new model status meeting and quarterly business planning report evaluation meeting.
Control Business Planning assigned documents.
Support development of 5S and Kaizen programs.
All other duties as assigned.
Good understanding of practices and procedures within a JIT manufacturing environment.
QUALIFICATIONS
Proficient in business planning methodologies, especially the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle and 5P analysis.
Preferred experience in Accounting and/or Cost Accounting.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Familiarity with JIT (Just-In-Time) manufacturing practices.
Japanese language proficiency is a plus, but not required
LOCATION New Castle, Indiana (On-site work)
SALARY USD 65,000–70,000 (based on experience and qualifications)
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