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Senior Cost Accountant

Position Summary

Catalent is a global, high-growth, public company and a leading partner for the pharmaceutical industry in the development and manufacturing of new treatments for patients worldwide. Your talents, ideas, and passion are essential to our mission: to help people live better, healthier lives. 

The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for all aspects of cost accounting and inventory oversight. The Senior Cost Accountant is to proactively participate in the Finance Department’s financial close process, analysis and reporting.

This position will report directly to the Finance Director.

The Role

• Facilitate Master Data paperwork and roll standard costs as necessary. Ensure all active Raw Materials, Intermediate items, and Finished Goods have accurate standard costs. 

• Perform cost estimates for new products or potential changes to existing products, as required.

• Analyze for discrepancies in manufactured product costs, by reviewing the manufacturing variances and identifying any discrepancies in routings or bills of materials.

• Complete day-to-day control of the work order system, including analyzing and closing commercial and R&D work orders in a timely manner. Must be familiar with work order costing concepts.

• Keep work orders current and work closely with production to correct any discrepancies.

• Ensure integrity of standard costs and item attributes that impact costing or standard accounting flows.

• Analyze cost of sales and manufacturing variances.

• Prepare monthly Yield, PPV, Reject and KPI Reporting.

• Assist in annual budget process with sales plan and standard cost rate development and reports.

• Other duties assigned.

The Candidate

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field of study
• 5+ years of relevant accounting experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office application: Excel and Word
• Ability to effectively meet scheduled and ad-hoc project deadlines
• Demonstrated quick study and self-starter competencies
• A team player committed to high standards of professionalism

• Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines. Individual may be required to sit, stand, walk regularly and occasionally lift 0-15 pounds

• Be accessible to manufacturing floor and office staff and to use required office equipment

• Specific vision requirements include reading of written documents and use of computer monitor screen frequently.

Why You Should Join Catalent

• Defined career path and annual performance review and feedback process
• Diverse, inclusive culture
• 152 hours of paid time off + 8 paid holidays
• Potential for career growth on an expanding team within an organization dedicated to preserving and bettering lives
• Competitive salary with quarterly bonus potential
• Community engagement and green initiatives
• Generous 401K match and Paid Time Off accrual
• Medical, dental and vision benefits effective day one of employment
• Tuition Reimbursement

Catalent offers rewarding opportunities to further your career!  Join the global drug development and delivery leader and help us bring over 7,000 life-saving and life-enhancing products to patients around the world. Catalent is an exciting and growing international company where employees work directly with pharma, biopharma and consumer health companies of all sizes to advance new medicines from early development to clinical trials and to the market. Catalent produces more than 70 billion doses per year, and each one will be used by someone who is counting on us. Join us in making a difference. 

Catalent is committed to the health and safety of its employees, visitors and the customers and patients we serve. As a result of the global pandemic, we have modified many of our recruitment and on-boarding processes to maintain everyone’s safety. The Human Resources teams will communicate all necessary safety processes and procedures throughout each stage.

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Catalent is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and veterans.

If you require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process due to a disability, you may submit your request by sending an email, and confirming your request for an accommodation and include the job number, title and location to DisabilityAccommodations@catalent.com. This option is reserved for individuals who require accommodation due to a disability. Information received will be processed by a U.S. Catalent employee and then routed to a local recruiter who will provide assistance to ensure appropriate consideration in the application or hiring process.

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