Cost Accounting Manager

Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the company’s unit costing and standard cost models
• Ensure product and customer margin accuracy and consistency across the organization
• Support pricing decisions through margin analysis, what-if scenarios, and sensitivity analysis
• Partner with Commercial teams on quoting, contract reviews, and margin improvement opportunities
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to validate cost inputs, routings, and assumptions
• Lead standard cost setting, annual updates, and ongoing variance analysis
• Analyze and explain material, labor, overhead, and yield variances
• Support raw material pass-through logic and margin protection mechanisms
• Identify margin erosion risks and proactively escalate concerns to finance leadership
• Ensure costing logic is clearly documented, understood, and trusted by stakeholders
• Support capital and process improvement projects with cost and margin impact analysis

Position Specification

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA preferred
• Strong manufacturing, operations, or industrial engineering background
• Demonstrated experience with standard costing and variance analysis
• Advanced Excel and analytical modeling skills; ERP experience preferred
• Ability to communicate complex cost concepts clearly to non-finance partners
• Confident, fact-based approach to challenging assumptions and decisions

Performance Standards

• Accuracy and credibility of product and customer margins
• Timeliness and usefulness of costing support for pricing and investment decisions
• Adept adoption and trust of costing models by Commercial and Operations teams
• Proactive identification of margin risks and improvement opportunities