Position Summary

Super Color Digital is a large format printing company producing custom work, including retail window graphics, trade show displays, signage and wallcoverings. Because every job is unique, accurate job costing is essential. Media, ink, equipment time, finishing and installation labor vary significantly from one order to the next, and each has a direct impact on profitability.

We’re looking for a Cost Accountant who can tell us what our jobs really cost and where we’re making or losing money. You’ll work side by side with our executive team, estimating, project managers and operations to develop price quotes and make sure every job is priced to hit our target margins. You’ll also make sure actual time and materials get recorded right, build the process that keeps it that way, and use what you learn to keep improving our pricing. If you like getting into the details and you’re as comfortable on the shop floor as you are in a spreadsheet, we’d like to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

Job Costing

•             Own job costing from the estimate all the way to closeout: materials, ink, labor, machine time, finishing, outside work, freight and installs.

•             Compare what we estimated to what the job actually cost, and dig into the big misses.

•             Track media and ink usage by job, including waste, test prints and reprints.

•             Set and maintain hourly rates for our printers, cutters, laminators and other finishing equipment.

•             Help run time and motion studies with production, finishing and install so our labor standards match how long the work really takes.

Cost Data Accuracy and Process Improvement

Our job costs are only as good as the data behind them. A big part of this job is making sure labor and materials get recorded correctly in the first place.

•             Set up a simple, consistent way for the shop to log time, materials, waste and reprints against each job.

•             Write it down, train the production, finishing and install crews on it, and make sure it sticks.

•             Spot-check job records, chase down what’s missing, and work with supervisors when the same problems keep coming up.

•             Look for ways to cut down on manual entry, like barcode scanning or pulling data straight from the RIP and printers.

Profitability Analysis

•             Report margins by job, customer, product type (banners, signage, POP, wallcoverings) and sales rep.

•             Tell us plainly which jobs and customers aren’t paying off, and what you’d change.

•             Figure out what rush jobs, remakes and last-minute customer changes really cost us.

Pricing and Standard Costs

•             Keep standard costs for media, ink and finishing up to date as vendor prices change.

•             Work with estimating so our pricing reflects what things actually cost.

•             Run the numbers on new equipment, materials or services before we commit.

Inventory and Month-End Close

•             Value our media, ink and supply inventory, and run cycle counts and year-end counts.

•             Calculate WIP and help with revenue on open or partially shipped jobs.

•             Handle cost-related month-end entries and reconciliations, and help out at audit time.

Reporting and Internal Controls

•             Put together a monthly cost and margin report for leadership, plus a quick weekly look at job profitability.

•             Tighten up controls around purchasing, inventory and closing out jobs.

Qualifications

Required

•             A degree in accounting or finance.

•             3 to 5 years of cost accounting, ideally in manufacturing, printing or a job shop.

•             Real experience with job costing, standard costs, overhead allocation and variance analysis.

•             A good handle on GAAP, inventory accounting and month-end close.

•             Strong Excel skills. You should be comfortable building a cost model from raw data.

•             You’re happy to spend time on the floor learning how the work actually gets done.

Preferred

•             A CMA or CPA, or working toward one.

•             Experience in large format, wide format, commercial print or sign shops.

•             Familiarity with activity-based costing, or square-foot and machine-hour costing.

•             Experience doing time and motion studies to set labor standards.

•             You’ve set up or cleaned up job costing in an ERP or print MIS before.

•             Experience with [our print MIS / accounting system].

•             Experience with Power BI or Tableau.

Super Color Digital is an equal opportunity employer.