Staff Accountant - Cost (1st Shift, NTN Driveshaft Anderson/Anderson, IN)

Position Summary:

Responsible for Cost Accounting and Budgeting.  Focus is on Inventory, Standard Costs, Manufacturing, Intercompany Purchases and department budgets.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assists in developing and maintaining standard costs for all inventory items; performs new item cost roll-ups, ensuring accurate bills of materials and work center rates.
• Maintains accurate inventory records and participates in semi-annual physical inventories.
• Performs monthly inventory reconciliation of general ledger to JDE Cardex detail.
• Performs monthly in-transit inventory reconciliation for products coming from Japan and China.
• Provides management with spending, scrap and variance analysis (materials, labor and overhead).
• Participates in annual budgeting process and monthly actual to budget spending report to department managers.
• Creates journal entries, including recurring and reversing entries related to intercompany transactions and balance confirmation.
• Performs work order manufacturing and variance accounting transaction throughout the month, and particularly at month-end to ensure accurate cutoff of transactions into the JDE general ledger.
• Assists in month-end closing process as needed including transmission of all financial transaction to NTNUSA for consolidation purposes and completion of the STRAVIS reporting package to NTN Japan.
• Completes monthly account reconciliations as assigned and general ledger analysis including intercompany balancing.
• Assists in preparation of financial reporting packages for internal and corporate managers.
• Prepares audit support for E&Y as assigned by Controller.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting with five years of relevant experience preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in cost accounting in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to prepare documentation and present to management.
• Strong computer and math skills, experience with Microsoft Office. Proficient in Microsoft Excel (lookups, sorting, filtering, and pivot tables, etc.)
• Knowledge of JDE (Oracle) MRP/ERP system a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to work well cross-functionally and communicate with internal and external parties.
• Ability to organize, plan, allocate resources and prioritize to meet multiple overlapping and competing deadlines and strict timelines.
• Strong problem-solving skills including ability to collect data, establish facts, draw conclusions and recommend effective corrective action.
• Strict attention to safety.
• Previous experience in automotive manufacturing or in a multi-cultural environment a plus.