- Establish cost accounting workflows, standard costing methodologies, and manufacturing time-tracking with Berlin Operations.
- Lead monthly close processes for GmbH inventory, reconcile raw materials, WIP, and finished goods, and oversee cycle counts and adjustment analysis.
- Ensure local accounting activities comply with German GAAP (HGB) and prepare cost breakdowns for German R&D tax incentives and documentation for government grants and subsidies.
- Manage PCard reconciliations for lab equipment and flight materials, and review capital expenditure versus operational expense classifications for the German entity.
- Provide backup coverage for US cost accountants and cross-train on US month-end workflows.
- Review and clear consolidated transfer orders between international subsidiaries and manage inventory movements for PBC and GmbH entities.
- Track costs and movements for satellite materials, launch, build processes, inventory, WIP, and internal fixed asset materials.
- Assist with labor capitalization tracking across software development, satellite construction, and commissioning.
- Analyze purchase price, production, scrap, and excess and obsolete variances; prepare reconciliations, journal entries, and manufacturing accrual and prepaid schedules.
- Support internal and external audits across US GAAP, German GAAP, and SOX controls.
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