Senior Cost Accountant - Nekoosa
Nekoosa
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Appleton, WI
Contract type: Full time
Your Impact
As a Senior Cost Accountant, you will play a key role in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting while providing deep insights into costing, inventory, and operational performance. You will support leadership with meaningful analysis, drive efficiency through improved cost accounting processes, and help the organization make data-driven decisions to grow profitability and reduce working capital.
This is a hybrid role with the expectation of 2 days/week in our Appleton or Wisconsin Rapids/Nekoosa office. This can be flexible after the training and onboarding period.
What You’ll Be Doing
Benefits are the game changer! We value our employee’s health and happiness by providing new hires benefit eligibility on the 1st of the month following date of hire. Our benefits may include:
Nekoosa is the premier manufacturer of specialty print media, with a 60-year legacy of innovation. We offer an extensive portfolio of pressure sensitive films, waterproof synthetic paper, specialty print media, overlaminates, application tapes, and carbonless papers used to produce general-purpose signage; window, wall, and floor graphics; waterproof menus; cut lettering and decals; and multipart forms.
Nekoosa has 6 locations across the U.S. and a partner, Fourbases, in Aalter, Belgium. Our expertise spans coating, converting, and custom plastic extrusion capabilities. We have built an energized culture focused on growth, employee development and market leadership. Our success is rooted in our people, and we are committed to promoting work/life balance and integration by investing significantly in employee-friendly policies and practices. Whether you are looking to start, make a change, or advance your career, find your path at Nekoosa, and leave your mark on the world.
The Fine Print
A post-offer background check, and drug screen is required.
Nekoosa provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact human resources at [email protected].
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As a Senior Cost Accountant, you will play a key role in ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting while providing deep insights into costing, inventory, and operational performance. You will support leadership with meaningful analysis, drive efficiency through improved cost accounting processes, and help the organization make data-driven decisions to grow profitability and reduce working capital.
This is a hybrid role with the expectation of 2 days/week in our Appleton or Wisconsin Rapids/Nekoosa office. This can be flexible after the training and onboarding period.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Supporting month end close by preparing and maintaining key accounting schedules, reconciliations, and accruals
- Providing accurate and timely costing data on materials, labor, freight, utilities, and scrap
- Partnering with operations to monitor production costs, margins, and inventory, making recommendations to reduce expenses and optimize working capital
- Leading cost variance and standard cost analysis, including product profitability studies
- Acting as a systems “super user” for ERP processes related to costing and financial reporting
- Delivering meaningful financial and business analysis to drive EBITDA growth and improve cash flow
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 3-5 years of cost accounting or financial analysis experience in a manufacturing environment
- Strong knowledge of ERP systems and advanced Excel skills
- Proven ability to prepare accurate costing and financial reports with attention to detail
- Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to collaborate cross functionally with operations, sales, and finance teams
- Results oriented with the ability to manage deadlines in a fast paced environment
Benefits are the game changer! We value our employee’s health and happiness by providing new hires benefit eligibility on the 1st of the month following date of hire. Our benefits may include:
- Competitive medical, dental, life, AD&D, and vision insurance plans.
- Generous annual time off allotment, including vacation (based on company service), parental leave, paid volunteer time, sick or emergency time, and 12 holidays.
- Tuition reimbursement (up to $5,250 per year), scholarships for dependents, monthly cell phone reimbursement, and annual steel toe and prescription safety glasses reimbursement.
- 401(k), Employee Assistance Program (available to employees and their families), annual bonus program, referral bonus program (up to $1,750), STD, LTD, and much more!
Nekoosa is the premier manufacturer of specialty print media, with a 60-year legacy of innovation. We offer an extensive portfolio of pressure sensitive films, waterproof synthetic paper, specialty print media, overlaminates, application tapes, and carbonless papers used to produce general-purpose signage; window, wall, and floor graphics; waterproof menus; cut lettering and decals; and multipart forms.
Nekoosa has 6 locations across the U.S. and a partner, Fourbases, in Aalter, Belgium. Our expertise spans coating, converting, and custom plastic extrusion capabilities. We have built an energized culture focused on growth, employee development and market leadership. Our success is rooted in our people, and we are committed to promoting work/life balance and integration by investing significantly in employee-friendly policies and practices. Whether you are looking to start, make a change, or advance your career, find your path at Nekoosa, and leave your mark on the world.
The Fine Print
A post-offer background check, and drug screen is required.
Nekoosa provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact human resources at [email protected].
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