Senior Cost Accountant

Role Summary

The Senior Cost Accountant will lead cost analysis, inventory costing, and financial reporting to support manufacturing operations and cost control. This role requires strong understanding of ERP/MRP systems, standard costing, and variance analysis, with a focus on continuous cost improvement and accurate financial reconciliation.

Responsibilities

• Request for Estimate (RFE) Process: conduct cost analysis and evaluate costs for new projects.
• Prepare site spend report and variance analysis.
• Prepare monthly spend journal entries (accruals, prepayments, allocation entries, etc.).
• Prepare site PPV report and variance analysis.
• Prepare monthly PPV journal entries.
• Defer and amortize manufacturing variance results.
• Support inventory related audit reports.
• Prepare inventory balance sheet account reconciliations in Blackline.
• Maintain standard cost and transfer prices.
• Reconcile inventory GL balances to subledger.
• Calculate and validate inventory return rate.
• Prepare sales and inventory PRIME report submissions and related reconciliations.
• Review inventory accounts and prepare reclassification entries/top-side adjustments as required.
• Perform inventory cycle counts and periodic counts as needed to support business.
• Perform product costing, variance analysis, and life cycle costing.
• Manage and perform continuous cost improvement activities.
• Provide ad-hoc reporting and on-demand data analytics.
• Process allocations, period, and adjustments.
• Post and reconcile intercompany transactions.
• Produce regulatory reports.
• Understand and perform cost structure and cost behavior analysis.
• Understand and maintain Item Masters, Bill of Materials and Routings.
• Perform standards maintenance and rate development, estimating & forecasting, data collection & labor reporting, projects and other analysis.
• Must be able to understand full ramifications of ERP systems well.
• Software Knowledge - Integrated ERP/MRP, Excel.
• Provide customer service and serve as liaison between Finance, Operations, and other depts.
• Review current departmental process for increased improvement and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university (Bachelor’s in accounting preferred).
• Required: Minimum 5–8 years of related experience.
• Required: Ability to think strategically and execute tactfully, results oriented.
• Preferred: Experience in cost accounting for manufacturing environments.

Skills

• ERP/MRP systems and Excel proficiency.
• Cost accounting, variance analysis, inventory management, and financial reporting.
• Interdepartmental collaboration and data analytics.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in accounting (preferred).