G&H Photonics Looking for Cost Accounting Assistant at Highland Heights, OH Full Time

Cost Accounting Assistant

LOCATION: CLEVELAND (OH, US)

G&H offers exciting and rewarding opportunities for motivated and talented people to join a team of like-minded, highly skilled colleagues who want to grow and succeed with our company.

Hiring talent to complement and grow our current teams’ skills and capabilities is a strategic priority to enable our plans for growth.

Our seven business locations in the United States and four UK-based businesses employ across a broad range of functions including engineering and process, manufacturing, product management, supply chain and customer services, quality assurance, continuous improvement, compliance and finance.

Description

Gooch & Housego is looking for an Accounting Assistant to support its Cleveland Ohio site. The position’s scope includes:

• General Ledger accounting including BS account reconciliations, intercompany activity reconciliation, and account maintenance and analysis.
• Monitor, maintain and improve cost accounting systems.
• Work with manufacturing personnel to open, close and analysing work orders.
• Analyse, and investigate variances against standards costs as needed.
• Ensure the accuracy of standard cost systems.
• Work with customer service to ensure accuracy of orders, and assist with forecasting.
• Interface with A/P, A/R, F/A, Payroll Shared Services organization to evaluate, and analyse company expenses as needed.
• Research purchase price variance and recommend actions.
• Assist management with the preparation for and execution of physical inventory.
• Assist with cycle counting and reduction of inventory
• Assist with yearend audits, and reporting.
• Perform budget vs actual analysis.
• Ad hoc reporting including ability to import database files to excel to create meaningful reports.
• Other responsibilities as required.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree; accounting degree preferred
• Cost accounting experience.
• Direct work experience in a manufacturing environment
• Good analytical and presentation skills (verbal and written)
• ERP experience.
• Attention to detail.
• Microsoft suite a must.
• Proficient in the use of Excel.

The responsibilities of this position will involve having access to items and technical data that may be controlled under U.S. export laws and regulations (“U.S. Export Control Laws”), including but not limited to the Export Administration Regulations (“EAR”) and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (“ITAR”). In order to comply with the U.S. Export Control Laws, and in conjunction with the review of candidates for those positions within G&H that may present access to export-controlled technical data, G&H must assess whether candidates are “U.S. persons” as defined under the EAR (15 C.F.R. Part 772) and the ITAR (22 C.F.R.

• 120.15). Certain questions asked during the application process are intended to assess this and will be used for evaluation purposes only. Failure to provide the necessary information in this regard will result in our inability to consider you further for this particular position.

The Company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment. The Company does not discriminate in employment opportunity or practices on the grounds of gender, race, religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by national laws under which the Company operates.

Company Description

LEADING PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY

G&H’s advanced optical engineering and manufacturing enables effective OEM system supply and development.

Our expertise in optical systems, subsystems and components extends from research through the development of prototypes to volume manufacturing and is a catalyst for innovation and effective manufacturing in the aerospace and defense, industrial and telecom, and life sciences and biophotonics sectors.

From eleven sites across the UK, USA and Asia, our capabilities span a uniquely broad range of photonic technologies: crystal growth, optical materials processing, acousto-optics and electro-optics, active and passive fiber optic components, precision optics, opto-mechanical and medical systems.

LEADING PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY G&H’s advanced optical engineering and manufacturing enables effective OEM system supply and development. Our expertise in optical systems, subsystems and components extends from research through the development of prototypes to volume manufacturing and is a catalyst for innovation and effective manufacturing in the aerospace and defense, industrial and telecom, and life sciences and biophotonics sectors. From eleven sites across the UK, USA and Asia, our capabilities span a uniquely broad range of photonic technologies: crystal growth, optical materials processing, acousto-optics and electro-optics, active and passive fiber optic components, precision optics, opto-mechanical and medical systems.