Cost Accountant

Posted 9 Days Ago
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Guelph, ON
Hybrid
Junior
Automotive • Hardware • Robotics • Software • Transportation • Manufacturing
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The Role
This role involves cost accounting responsibilities such as analyzing variances, preparing financial reports, supporting audits, and managing BOMs. Strong Excel and analytical skills are essential.
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What we offer:
At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.
Group Summary:
The Magna Exteriors portfolio of products includes access systems such as liftgates, exterior trim, modular systems, front-end modules including fascia, active aerodynamic systems and other lightweight structural components for automotive, commercial truck and other industrial markets.
Recognized globally as an innovator in all aspects of vehicle exteriors, Magna provides everything needed, from materials development and design through manufacturing and assembly, to help automakers create sleek, state-of-the-art vehicles across the world.
Job Responsibilities:
QUALIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO DO THE JOB:
  • Accounting or Finance post-secondary education required
  • Minimum 2+ years of manufacturing accounting experience in a fast paced automotive environment an asset
  • Extensive background in cost accounting and meeting deadlines
  • Advanced Excel skills (Pivot Tables, Macro's, VLOOKUP)
  • Analytical skills backed by high proficiency dealing with data
  • Ability to tackle loosely defined problems by asking the right questions
  • Strong organizational skills, comfortable with multi-tasking and project management abilities
  • Experience conducting deep dive analysis with large volumes of data
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Previous experience working with PowerBI, SQL, Hyperion, Power Ledger, GSD system and TraX is an asset
  • Annual Audits (SOX, Magna Year End, Government)
  • Ability to respect and maintain the confidential nature of the department

MAIN DUTIES:
  • Ensure BOM's and routings are complete for products
  • Audit BOM's to actual floor performance
  • Produce variance analysis of products on an ad hoc basis
  • Collaborate with team in the preparation of complex financial reports
  • Integral part of month/quarter/year end close activities and financial statements with detailed analysis
  • Provide support to department leaders through financial and operational analysis and throughout the
  • Year and applicable budget and forecasting cycles
  • Liaises with other department personnel
  • Assist with internal and external financial audits
  • Create journal entries, reconcile sub-ledgers for assigned accounts
  • Integral part of month end close activities and financial statements with detailed analysis
  • Other duties as required

Awareness, Unity, Empowerment:
At Magna, we believe that a diverse workforce is critical to our success. That's why we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We hire on the basis of experience and qualifications, and in consideration of job requirements, regardless of, in particular, color, ancestry, religion, gender, origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. Magna takes the privacy of your personal information seriously. We discourage you from sending applications via email or traditional mail to comply with GDPR requirements and your local Data Privacy Law.
Worker Type:
Regular / Permanent
Group:
Magna Exteriors

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The Company
HQ: Aurora, Ontario
171,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1957

What We Do

We are a mobility company that innovates like a start-up and thinks like a technology company. This helps us anticipate change in one of the most complex industries in the world and respond quickly. We depend on a team of 171,000 dynamic, entrepreneurial-minded employees in an environment where great ideas flourish. Our presence spans 343 manufacturing operations and 88 product development, engineering and sales centers in 29 countries.

We understand that you need a career as unique as you are. Whether you want to advance your existing expertise or try something completely different, we are committed to your growth.

Why Work With Us

At Magna, our engineering team is advancing mobility for everyone and everything. Joining this team means being a part of the design, development, and manufacturing of the world’s most advanced mobility technology. Innovations that move families, shape communities, and improve lives. You can follow your passions and shape your own career path.

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