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Cost Accounting Manager-Princeton, IL (Hybrid)

*Relocation Assistance Available*

Princeton, IL (princeton-il.com)

Looking for a “hands-on” team member with accounting and financial analysis skills as well as excellent communication and problem-solving skills. This position will provide financial guidance and support to plant and finance leaders and must understand and be able to meet challenges inherent in a business undergoing change and growth.

What You Will Do:

• Must be able to effectively collaborate across the organization and positively influence business outcomes. Must effectively communicate with business leaders across all functional areas.

• Participate in cross functional process improvement projects to drive a lean manufacturing mindset across the plant.

• Partner with managers and plant leadership to gain alignment on value-added activities. Identify and lead process improvement activities within the finance and accounting function that drive value to the business.

• Provide backup help to team members in the accounting and finance group.

• Compliance and Internal Controls

• Maintain a robust and effective internal control environment to ensure accounting procedures are compliant with GAAP and FICAP

• Participate in Sarbanes Oxley testing reporting, with emphasis on prevention, elimination, and timely close-out of control deficiencies

• Projects and Processes

• Perform cost analysis/cost-rolls, manufacturing variance analysis, including standard cost establishment.

• Create and maintain material, labor, and overhead cost rates as well as execute annual standard setting and related analysis.

• Accurately reflect absorption of departmental costs for entire Princeton facility

• Management Reporting and Analysis - Prepare weekly and monthly management reports and use reports to drive improvements and escalation of issues.

• Month End Closing Process - Including journal entries, financial analysis, researching discrepancies, account reconciliations, and plant reporting.

• CER (capital expenditure request) project tracking, assist on CER analysis and partner with the Capital Projects Manager on monthly spend details.

• Prepare forecast and AOP ensuring alignment with operations, analyze and prepare summary of changes.

• Projects and Special Assignments - This will include audit support, physical inventory, and financial guidance to plant and finance leaders.

What You Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required

• Minimum 3 years of experience within Accounting or Finance

• Experience in manufacturing environment is highly preferred

• Analytical thinker. Must be willing to spend time in the details to solve problems independently.

• Ability to explain and communicate financial results to management in an understandable and actionable format for decision-making purposes.

• Strong skills in MS Office applications (especially Excel and Power BI)

• Can work with cross-functional teams to solve issues through data driven analysis.

• Self-starter that can see a problem and will work with others to solve it as efficiently as possible.

• Strong leadership skills. Must be able to influence decisions at all levels of the organization.

• Ability to be flexible and organize one’s work.

Why Work for Us?

Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if:

• You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”.

• You’re looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us.

• You want a culture that promotes work-life balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!

What You’ll Get from Us:

• Health, dental and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy”.

• A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, offering a 6% company match and no vesting period

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Unlimited PTO

• Employee Discounts through Perks at Work

• Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can “serve others, not yourself”

• Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through CliftonStrengths testing and coaching

Apply Today!

Join our team of experts today and help us make tomorrow’s world a safer place!

Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role.

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We Celebrate Who We Are!

Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because we’re required to, but because it’s the right thing to do. We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team (Careers@Allegion.com) .

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