Senior Cost Accountant

• Manage essential manufacturing cost accounting tasks, including supporting monthly closes, reviewing transactions, and reconciling inventory and cost accounts
• Conduct and review balance sheet reconciliations, promptly resolving discrepancies while ensuring proper documentation and compliance with controls
• Analyze plant-level financial results for accuracy and consistency, ensuring adherence to reporting standards across all locations
• Oversee standard costing processes, including setting and updating standards, and ensuring the accuracy of costing inputs such as raw materials and production conditions
• Maintain cost-related master data, including bills of materials (BOMs), raw material standards, and transfer pricing updates
• Evaluate and interpret operational performance metrics, such as cost variances, absorption rates, and yield analyses, providing actionable recommendations to leadership
• Support budgeting and forecasting processes, including developing analytical models to compare actual costs to budgets and assist in long-term planning
• Coordinate physical inventory counts, ensuring accurate execution, reconciliation, and implementation of improvement measures
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to enhance production reporting and optimize costing processes, collaborating with IT and other stakeholders to implement system enhancements
• Act as a liaison between operations, engineering, supply chain, and finance, ensuring alignment in costing practices and timely decision support

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in cost accounting, preferably within a manufacturing environment
• Strong expertise in standard costing, cost analysis, and manufacturing cost accounting practices
• Proficiency in SAP or similar ERP systems for managing cost and inventory processes
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, including building analytical models and performing complex data analysis
• Excellent problem-solving abilities with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving discrepancies
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across departments and lead cross-functional initiatives
• Strong communication skills to present insights and recommendations effectively to leadership
• Knowledge of inventory management and audit processes, with a focus on maintaining control compliance

SAP GUI experience

• Bonus plan
• 401k with match
• health/vision/dental insurance
• competitive PTO and holidays
• medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance for contract/temporary professionals
• eligible to enroll in company 401(k) plan for hired contract/temporary professionals