Senior Cost Accountant

Job Description

Job Description

BETTER MOBILITY FOR LIFE

Savaria is a global leader in accessibility and patient care products, designing and building wheelchair lifts, stairlifts, elevators for home and commercial applications, medical beds, therapeutic surfaces, ceiling track lifts, and patient slings. Savaria employs 2,450 valued associates globally and has 11+ manufacturing facilities to reach markets in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

SAVARIA PATIENT CARE

Built from a heritage of brands including Span, Handicare, and Silvalea, Savaria Patient Care provides products designed for safe patient handling and positive outcomes. Our research and clinically based product portfolio includes therapeutic surfaces for pressure management and positioning, a complete range of innovative ceiling and floor lifts, and slings. Savaria Patient Care is a division of Savaria Corporation, a global leader in accessibility.

OVERVIEW : The primary purpose of this position will be to manage the cost and profitability of the project business; to create data-driven strategies that improve our company's processes and increase our market share. You will be working with a team to analyze the results of projects, ensure proper reporting and coding of cost / expenses, develop analytics tools, and report back on your findings and solutions.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Collaborate with coworkers and management to implement improvements
• Ensure all costs entered the BuildOps system correctly and properly assigned to jobs
• Evaluate budgeting process to ensure all costs are captured on jobs in the planning process
• Execute final project closeout reviews and identify opportunities in operational and financial processes
• Develop, enhance, and implement new systems and operational improvements.
• Document existing systems and recommend changes to enhance data flow.
• Financial responsibility for existing systems and reliance and reconciliation of systems
• General accounting responsibilities, including but not limited to : timely, quality month-end close to comply with the Divisional close schedule; review of monthly, quarterly, and year-end packages for the Division or Corporate; development and implement procedural improvements; active involvement with the preparation and analysis of the AOP
• Additional responsibilities as requested or required

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES :

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

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PHYSICAL DEMANDS :

The employee may occasionally stand, walk, stoop, kneel or crouch during shift. Employee will be required to regularly sit, use hand to finger, handle, feel and reach with hands and arms. Employee must be able to occasionally lift and or move up to 25 lbs.

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Savaria provides equal employment opportunities and consideration to all qualified employees and applicants, including disabled individuals and veterans.

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