Senior Cost Accountant

About the Role

As a Senior Cost Accountant, you will lead key cost accounting activities within a manufacturing environment, ensuring the accuracy and integrity of product costs, inventory valuation, and related financial reporting. This role partners with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, FP&A, and Finance leaders to improve profitability, operational performance, and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Lead the maintenance and continuous improvement of the standard cost system, including annual cost rollups, new-product costing, and updates to material, labor, overhead, routing, and bill-of-material assumptions.
• Analyze manufacturing performance and communicate material, labor, overhead, purchase price, production, scrap, and absorption variances to Finance and Operations leaders.
• Lead cost accounting activities for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close, including journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, inventory adjustments, and supporting schedules.
• Ensure accurate valuation of raw materials, work in process, and finished goods in accordance with U.S. GAAP and company policy.
• Review inventory reserves, write-offs, obsolescence, shrinkage, and other adjustments; recommend appropriate accounting treatment and corrective action.
• Lead and support cycle counts and physical inventories, investigate discrepancies, and partner with Operations to improve inventory accuracy and controls.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, FP&A, and Finance to validate cost drivers, improve data integrity, and identify opportunities to reduce costs and improve margins.
• Prepare cost analyses, forecasts, budgets, and profitability reports for products, customers, capital projects, and operational initiatives.
• Maintain cost accounting documentation and internal controls; support internal and external audits and timely resolution of findings.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for costing and inventory processes in the company’s ERP system and help define system and process improvements.
• Develop repeatable reports and analytical tools, identify trends and root causes, and present findings and recommendations to management.
• Automate and streamline processes and reporting through the effective use of AI and other technologies.
• Provide technical guidance and review support to accounting colleagues and contribute to cross-functional projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Five or more years of progressive accounting experience, including at least three years in cost accounting within a manufacturing environment.
• Advanced knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variances, cost of goods sold, and U.S. GAAP.
• Experience supporting financial close, account reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, and audits.
• Strong ERP or MRP system experience and the ability to assess the financial impact of manufacturing and supply chain transactions.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including experience analyzing large data sets and building accurate, repeatable financial models and reports.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify root causes, challenge assumptions, and recommend practical solutions.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present financial findings to nonfinancial stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, FP&A, and Finance.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and provide technical guidance to others.

Qualifications

• CPA, CMA, or MBA preferred.

Physical Demands

• Push, pull, carry, and lift 20–50 pounds.
• Walk, stretch, bend, stoop, twist, reach, grasp, and perform repetitive movements.
• Speak, hear, read, write, and comprehend English.
• Work in a non-temperature-controlled environment.
• Travel occasionally.

Mental Demands

• Think analytically and make sound decisions.
• Develop options and implement solutions.
• Collaborate effectively with a team.
• Maintain regular and punctual attendance, consistent with ADA and FMLA requirements.
• Demonstrate attention to detail.
• Communicate effectively.
• Manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Work with a sense of urgency.

About the Company

AHF Products is a leading U.S. manufacturer of hard-surface flooring, with trusted brands serving residential and commercial hardwood, tile, and vinyl markets. Drawing on decades of expertise in award-winning design, product development, manufacturing, and service, we create quality flooring that lasts for generations through innovation and a commitment to outstanding customer service.

Our residential brands include Bruce®, Armstrong Flooring™, Hartco®, Robbins®, LM Flooring®, Capella®, HomerWood®, Hearthwood®, Raintree®, Autograph®, Emily Morrow Home®, tmbr®, Crossville®, and Crossville Studios®. Our commercial brands include Bruce Contract™, Hartco Contract™, AHF Contract®, Armstrong Flooring, Parterre®, Crossville®, and Crossville Studios®.

Headquartered in Mountville, Pennsylvania, AHF Products employs more than 3,000 team members and operates manufacturing facilities across the United States and in Cambodia.