.**Responsibilities**:- Applies principles of finance, Accounting and cost accounting to various accounting duties related to the Business Unit's financial and operational planning and reporting.- Responsible for the maintenance of the manufacturing plant's controls and distributing expense reports to Reynosa leads to ensure budget is being followed.- Responsible for the financial coordination, administration, and analysis of manufacturing operations. This involves analyzing sales and cost of sales, labor reporting, product costing, and monthly material usage variances and inventory adjustments.- Responsible for the overall planning, coordination, and participation of the physical inventories as well as the analysis of the results. Responsible for the monthly accounting and reconciling of the financial to perpetual inventory. There will be periodic counts each month to ensure the on-hand inventory is valid. Coordination responsibility extends not only to production departments but to outside stockrooms and vendors.- Responsibility includes developing computer driven reports as well as the ability to analyze and interpret the resulting data.- Responsible for the coordination and analysis of direct labor reporting within the facility.- Preparing recurring monthly journal entries related to inventory, labor reporting, cost of sales and other various entries.- Fixed Asset and depreciation schedules- Responsible for standard cost duties as follows:- Review and load material standard costs into ERP database.- Perform assembly cost roll ups.- Analyze cost changes, margin impact and inventory value adjustment effect.- Perform standard cost update process.- Work with manufacturing engineering to insure cost and rate accuracy.- Review cost routings for reasonableness.- Preparation and analysis of the information required for the annual standard cost updates.- Responsible for actual to standard manufacturing variance analysis as follows:- Analyze and verify monthly labor utilization and efficiency.- Review and investigate purchase price and material usage variances.- Work with marketing and purchasing to establish proper cost on new parts and assemblies.- Responsible for review, reporting and analysis of inventories, inventory reserves, slow moving inventories, obsolete inventories, scrap, and inter-company transfers.- Assist with both internal and external audits.- Oversight of the process and reconciliation of the annual physical inventory.- Assist in the preparation of annual operating and capital budgets.- Assist in analysis of product costs, overhead absorption, abnormal fixed cost expenditures, etc.- Daily interface with manufacturing personnel and production planners. Assist planning and scheduling to improve inventory controls and internal programs.- Participate in the preparation of cost price data packages for government contract proposals