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Primary Location: China (CN) - Tianjin -
Function: Accounting and Finance (CA)
Title: Cost Accountant - 114992
Your Position:
Major Purpose
Major Duties
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Costing -
- Leading factory costing activities for, including but not limited to Open budget/Structural Line/Planning line/Year-end standard cost release.
- Supporting new product programs costing works on new product top-down and bottom-up cost, working with PMT on target cost setting, tracking and changing analysis, calculating quality of cost.
- Supporting factory continuous improvement project costing works, be a key driver in understanding real cost to support further decision making.
- Inter-factory component transfer pricing calculation and quotation preparation.
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Inventory management -
- Guiding the factory inventory counting process, counting variance verification, counting results recon and variance posting.
- Provide inventory days on hand report to management team to support working capital turnover improvement, enhance operation efficiency.
- Inventory risk management to support global property insurance assessment process.
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Closing & Forecasting -
- Responsible for costing and inventory management related closing activities, including production variance analysis and adjustment, inventory provision, cost element reclassification and inventory actualization adjustment.
- Working with factory function team on inventory forecasting for Raw, WIP and CG, trend analysis to support planning and forecast process.
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Project management -
- Attend and support new product program management meetings, phase review meetings, PIW meetings, TPC meetings.
- Review Master Schedule and align FMTC activities and steps with program schedule
- Incorporate the plans to eliminate the gap between the preliminary top-down and bottom-up costing analysis.
- Review FMTC target costing process lessons learned from similar programs
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Internal Control –
- Ensure all costing and inventory management activities be in accordance with worldwide accounting manual and SOX requirements, to maintain a strong internal control environment.
- Support internal audit and external audit on costing and inventory management related work.
Required
Desired
Education
What You'll Get
At John Deere, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go. Here, you'll enjoy the freedom to explore new projects, the support to think outside the box and the advanced tools and technology that foster innovation and achievement. We offer comprehensive relocation and reward packages to help you get started on your new career path.
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The information contained herein is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities and qualifications required of individuals performing the job. The qualifications detailed in this job description are not considered the minimum requirements necessary to perform the job, but rather as guidelines. An Equal Opportunity Employer, John Deere requires a diversity of people, perspectives and ideas to address the complex challenges of its global business. John Deere is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.