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Cost Accounting Manager

Intuitive

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Primary Function of Position: This position is responsible for overseeing all cost accounting activities within the manufacturing environment, providing management with accurate and timely financial data to support strategic decision-making. This position ensures the integrity of product costing, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variance analysis in alignment with Corporate Policies and Procedures. Roles & Responsibilities: Responsible for maintaining Cost Accounting SOPs, DOPs, and Work Instructions aligned to corporate guidelines and SOX compliance. Manages day-to-day activities related to standard costing, inventory accounting, and manufacturing cost analysis, and ensures timely completion of the Month End Close Process. Prepares weekly, monthly, and quarterly cost reporting and explains variances over Budget and Forecast. Supports the business with cost-related metrics and internal reporting, as needed. Provides ad hoc cost trends and standard cost analysis. Leads yearly cost roll-ups and updating cost standards for the whole Product Operations group: Support global ops finance team on the development of Direct Labor and Overhead rates for Manufacturing Operations. Coordinate the standard costing setting activities, calendar, and deliverables, working closely with all plants worldwide. Oversee and monitor the Company's Cost Accounting Policies and Processes. Responsible for updates in STO list prices. Responsible for Systems' Cost of Goods Sold deferral. Coordinate and analyze standard revaluation reserve balance, controls, and related activities. Ensure that the Company's accounting policies are appropriately applied to all costing-related activities and accounts. Monitor and analyze key metrics to track accuracy of inventory and manufacturing costs and to provide insight into Finance-related activities for management. Responsible for accurate, timely month-end close process for inventory, manufacturing expenses, and variances. Review and audit of BOMs, Routings, labor, and overhead rates. Review and audit of cycle counts, ABC-Inventory class, excess and obsolete procedures. Help drive an efficient and effective process to ensure timely close and reporting of all cost accounting matters by closely coordinating with the FP&A teams. Collaborate cross-functionally with other teams (IT, Accounting, and Finance, etc.) in system and process implementation projects and perform testing to validate system design is appropriate. Actively identify opportunities for process improvement or operational automation in existing system infrastructure. Drive our Culture Strategy by fostering our mission, founding principles, individual and leadership expectations. Skills, Experience, Education, & Training: Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or related field. Previous experience in a similar role like Cost Mgr. or FP&A Manager with strong standard costing background. Minimum 7 years of relevant experience combined in a manufacturing accounting environment. Advanced Excel skills, SAP experience. Good presentation and communication skills in both English and Spanish. Strong analytical skills, ability to think strategically and influence business decisions using appropriate, fact-based financial information. Intuitive es un empleador que brinda igualdad de oportunidades de empleo. Proporcionamos igualdad de oportunidades de empleo a todos los solicitantes y empleados cualificados, y prohibimos cualquier tipo de discriminación y acoso, independientemente de su raza, sexo, condición de embarazo, orientación sexual, identidad de género, origen nacional, color, edad, religión, condición de veterano protegido o de discapacidad, información genética o cualquier otra condición protegida por las leyes federales, estatales o locales aplicables. Aviso sobre los Controles de Exportación de EE. UU.: De acuerdo con las Regulaciones de Administración de Exportaciones de EE. UU. (15 CFR §743.13(b)), algunos puestos en Intuitive Surgical pueden estar sujetos a controles de exportación de EE. UU. para candidatos que sean nacionales de países actualmente bajo embargo o sanciones. Cierta información que usted proporcione como parte de la solicitud será utilizada para determinar si Intuitive Surgical necesitará (i) obtener una licencia de exportación del gobierno de EE. UU. en su nombre (nota: el proceso de obtención de la licencia puede tardar entre 3 y más de 6 meses) o (ii) implementar un Plan de Control de Tecnología (“TCP”, por sus siglas en inglés) (nota: normalmente este paso agrega 2 semanas al proceso de contratación). Para cualquier puesto en Intuitive sujeto a controles de exportación, las ofertas finales están condicionadas a la obtención de una licencia de exportación aprobada y/o a la ejecución de un TCP antes de la fecha de inicio del empleado potencial, la cual puede o no ser flexible, y dentro de un plazo que no obstaculice de manera irrazonable la necesidad de contratación. Si aplica, los candidatos serán notificados e instruidos sobre cualquier requisito relacionado con estos fines. Este puesto puede cubrirse con un nivel de puesto diferente al indicado aquí, según las necesidades del negocio y/o la experiencia, los conocimientos y las habilidades del candidato o la candidata seleccionado. La compensación se basará principalmente en el nivel del puesto en el que se cubra el rol y en las cualificaciones del candidato o la candidata, de conformidad con la legislación aplicable.

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