Buyer
Company: Carrie Rikon & Associates, LLC
Location: Elmira
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
Job Summary :
Purchases a wide variety of maintenance, repair, and operating
supplies. Interviews and selects vendors, negotiates purchases and
expedites delivery of assigned items. Assists other departments in
obtaining proper specifications, delivery, terms, and costs.
Performs a variety of cost related accounting tasks, and general
accounting reconciliations.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities :
- Evaluate and buy various supplies, services, and materials,
given specifications, costs, and terms, collaborating with those
responsible for determining purchase requirements.
- Review of Purchase Requisitions for completeness, required
approvals, and compliance with Company policies and interests.
- Evaluate quotations and negotiates for lowest possible price,
acceptable quality standards, compliance with company policies.
Participate and collaborate in final procurement selection.
- Daily processing of Purchase Requisitions and Purchase
Orders.
- Daily processing of manufacturing job costs. Analysis and
communication of job costs and job variances across departments as
necessary to aid in maximizing profit margin.
- Review and correct inventory transactions.
- Maintenance of Fixed Asset records, costing, and
reporting.
- Reconciliation of various General Ledger Accounts.
- Various month-end accounting duties.
- Prepare various reports as required.
Competencies :
- Analytical skills necessary to: determine the best deal for
price, quality and service; understand the operation and
requirements of the purchase requisition; comprehend relationships
between job costs, inventory, purchasing and sales; identify
errors.
- Persistence to find and negotiate the best possible price or
solution.
- Communication skills that: furthers negotiation and successful
satisfaction of requisition requirements; effectively determines
actionable insight pertaining to cost variances across departments,
ensures that supply needs, quality and delivery requirements are
met.
- Able to manage conflict in a constructive and professional
manner.
- Excellent math skills and clerical accuracy.
- High ethical standards to ensure all purchasing activities are
transacted in the best interest of the company.
- Able to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast paced
environment.
- A high sense of urgency for meeting required production
levels/deadlines.
- Intermediate level Excel and Word skills. Ability to learn and
use complex ERP systems.
Education & Experience:
- Minimum: Associates Degree in Accounting, Business, or other
relevant discipline; plus 5 years' experience in a purchasing or
cost accounting position in a manufacturing environment.
- Preferred: Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or other
business discipline. 3 years' experience in a purchasing or cost
accounting position in a manufacturing environment.
Environment:
Professional office environment. This position routinely uses
standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers,
filing cabinets and fax machines. This is largely a sedentary role;
however, some filing and carrying of files is required. This would
require the ability to lift up to 25 pounds, carry file boxes, open
filing cabinets and bend or stand as necessary. Occasional travel
to local and regional locations.
Position is onsite.
Salary 60K Plus Benefits.
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