Cost Accounting Specialist
Company Information
General Dynamics is a successful Fortune 100, global aerospace and defense company, with over 90,000 employees world-wide. General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has a strong foundation of delivering core engineering and manufacturing capabilities to our clients for military vehicles. Our team is focused on continuous process and productivity improvements that reduce product costs, while increasing troop safety and effectiveness. Land Systems continues to work with the US Armed Forces and its Allies to ensure these vehicles remain survivable, relevant, flexible, affordable and capable of addressing a dynamic threat environment.
What We Offer
Whether you are starting your career or an experienced professional, we offer a Total Rewards package that is impactful and built for you.
Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, HSA and Flex Spending.
Competitive base pay, incentive pay that rewards individual and team performance, and comprehensive benefits.
401k Match (6%)
Educational Assistance (Up to 10k per year)
9-80 Work Schedule (This position's standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off).
On-going learning opportunities within rewarding work environment.
Onsite Cafeteria, remodeled with new equipment Fitness Center, and Outdoor fitness track.
Responsibilities to Anticipate for this role
Monitoring of movement of inventory between contracts to ensure proper usage and costing by contract.
Monitoring of part classifications and utilization of common inventory to ensure proper identification of parts and costing for allocation of cost to contracts.
Make corrections to part costing in Oracle and prepare journal entries, as needed, to address costing issues identified.
Maintain databases and macros used in the costing monitoring process
Provide metrics and root cause analysis to support continuous improvement
Provide support for miscellaneous requests for BOM (Bill of Material) pricing, WAC (Weighted Average Cost) updates, and other activities.
Develop and manage corrective actions requests related to receiving, costing and purchasing issues from various functions - provide written guidance, validate actions taken and perform root cause/ corrective actions
Subject matter expert on material costing participating on various cross functional teams/projects supporting business requirements.
Provide support to external, internal, management and government auditors
Provide support to accounts payable in vendor related reconciliations
Create, update and maintain process playbooks for key responsibilities.
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications Sought
Bachelors degree required. Accounting or Finance majors preferred.
3-5 years experience in a similar role required
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work with diverse group of people and drive results.
Ability to work with large datasets and reporting tools (Cognos, OBIEE, Pivot Tables, Microsoft Power BI)
Exceptional computer skills - in MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint (knowledge of pivots tables strongly preferred). Experience in MS Access and creating and editing complex macros highly preferred.
Oracle eBusiness experience a plus.
Additional Information:
This position may require eligibility to obtain a US security clearance. (Non-US Citizens may not be eligible to obtain a security clearance)
Able to bring continuous improvement processes and methodologies to the position. Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills is required. Works well in team and individually
Must be able to work occasional evening and/or weekend overtime as required
GDLS considers factors such as, scope/responsibilities of the position, candidate experience, education/training background, in addition to local market comparableandbusiness considerations when extending an offer.
General Dynamics Land Systems is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race and/or ethnic background, national origin and/or ancestry, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender status, sexual orientation, marital/parental status, age, military service, veteran status, disability, pregnancy/childbirth or related conditions, genetic information, or membership in any class protected by applicable law from discrimination in employment.
