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Cost Accountant  

Position Summary:

This is a full-time salaried position, based onsite out of our Manassas, VA location.

Catalent Wellness Virginia is a rapidly growing manufacturer of dietary supplements in a soft chew format.  The Cost Accountant is to proactively participate in the Finance Department’s daily production review and analysis of all costs for the manufacturing site, directly reporting to the Senior Cost Accountant.
 

The Role:

  • Review and entry of daily production and consumption records

  • Perform finance verification of monthly raw material, WIP, and finished good inventory cycle counts.  Audit and maintain the cycle count documentation from all cycle counts, ensuring its accuracy and completeness

  • Ensure the site maintains compliance with counting frequency and completeness requirements

  • Monitor inventories and facilitates the paperwork approval, tracking, and filing process to maintain accuracy

  • Analyze data for discrepancies in manufactured product costs, by reviewing the manufacturing variances and identifying any discrepancies in routings or bills of materials

  • Assist in the analysis and roll of standard costs as necessary.  Ensure all active Raw Materials and Intermediate items have accurate standard costs

  • Ensure integrity of standard costs and item attributes that impact
    costing or standard accounting flows

  • Assist in annual budget process with standard cost rate development

  • Other duties as assigned

The Candidate:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or a related field of study, required

  • Minimum three years of experience in Accounting or Manufacturing, required

  • Advanced proficiency with various ERP systems, Sage or JDE, preferred

  • Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-15 pounds

Why You Should Join Catalent:

  • Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process 

  • 152 hours of PTO + 8 paid holidays

  • Several Employee Resource Groups focusing on D&I

  • Generous 401K match 

  • Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment 

  • Tuition Reimbursement 

  • WellHub - program to promote overall physical wellness 

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

personal initiative. dynamic pace. meaningful work.

Visit Catalent Careers to explore career opportunities.

Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

    

Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Catalent Pharma Solutions (Catalent) is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies and/or search firms for this job posting. Resumes submitted to any Catalent employee by a third party agency and/or search firm without a valid written & signed search agreement, will become the sole property of Catalent. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral. Thank you.

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