Cost Accountant

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary resource for cost accounting matters at the plant, advising cross-functional teams on costing practices and financial impact.
• Collaborate with supply chain and engineering partners to establish, evaluate, and maintain direct material standards used for planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Work with manufacturing engineering to keep labor standards current, reflect process updates in system routings, and align costing data with shop-floor operations.
• Review overhead application methods across products and production groups, track key cost drivers, and recommend opportunities to improve accuracy and efficiency.
• Assess supplier pricing against historical benchmarks, build complete cost summaries, maintain item cost records, and finalize system updates.
• Compare actual production results to expected cost models, investigate differences, and support costing decisions tied to engineering change activity.
• Contribute to month-end close, recurring financial reporting, and special analysis requests by identifying data sources and preparing meaningful output for stakeholders.
• Lead or assist with standard cost revisions and periodic cost roll activities to ensure bills of material, routing structures, labor assumptions, and overhead rates remain current.
• Analyze material, labor, and overhead variances, explain root causes to finance and operations leaders, and help drive corrective action and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen costing processes, reporting routines, and internal controls by documenting procedures and training business partners when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 3 years of accounting experience with exposure to inventory and manufacturing operations.
• Strong background in cost accounting, with additional experience in heavy manufacturing environments preferred.
• Solid understanding of standard costing methodologies, variance analysis, and month-end close activities.
• Experience working in ERP systems; Oracle experience is preferred.
• Ability to present financial findings clearly to both finance professionals and operational teams.
• Experience supporting continuous improvement efforts such as lean initiatives, scrap reduction, or yield improvement is preferred.
• Comfortable working on site in a manufacturing setting, including time on the production floor, participation in inventory counts, and adherence to required safety practices.

Qualifications

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Benefits are available to contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance.
• Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan.

Benefits

Robert Half offers a range of benefits to its contract/temporary professionals, including medical, vision, dental, and life and disability insurance. Hired contract/temporary professionals are also eligible to enroll in our company 401(k) plan. Visit roberthalf.gobenefits.net for more information.

Pay

$65,000 - $75,000 USD Per Year

Schedule

Ongoing

Location

Middleville, MI