Senior Cost Accountant

Pay

Salary Range: $95,000 to $105,000 dependent upon education and experience. A 6% Annual Target Bonus is also included with this position.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and analyze standard costs, Bills of Materials (BOMs), routings, and product cost structures.
• Perform annual and periodic standard cost updates.
• Support new product costing, profitability analysis, and pricing decisions.
• Ensure accurate product cost valuation within SAP S/4HANA systems.
• Analyze labor, material, overhead, scrap, yield, and production variances.
• Investigate root causes of manufacturing inefficiencies and provide recommendations for corrective action.
• Develop and monitor key manufacturing KPIs.
• Present cost performance results to Finance and Operations leadership.
• Monitor inventory valuation and reserve calculations.
• Support cycle count programs and physical inventories.
• Analyze inventory accuracy and identify inventory-related risks and opportunities.
• Reconcile inventory balances and resolve discrepancies.
• Support monthly close activities, including journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations.
• Assist with annual budgets, forecasts, and long-range planning.
• Perform budget-to-actual analysis and explain significant variances.
• Develop financial models to support operational and strategic initiatives.
• Identify and quantify cost savings opportunities.
• Partner with manufacturing, supply chain, and engineering teams on continuous improvement projects.
• Support productivity initiatives, sourcing decisions, and capital investments with financial analysis.
• Track and report realized savings from cost reduction programs.
• Develop and maintain cost reporting and financial dashboards.
• Support SAP costing and other financial systems enhancements.
• Improve reporting automation and data accuracy.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting policies, and GAAP requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in accounting.
• Five plus (5+) years cost accounting experience in a manufacturing facility is preferred.
• Experience using SAP GUI (not Fiori) in a manufacturing environment. (S/4HANA preferred)
• Working knowledge of standard costing, financial inventory controls and GAAP are required.
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills (Functions, Pivot Tables, Complex Formulas, etc)
• Must be able to communicate, both written and verbal with all levels of plant management.

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Disability
• 401K with company contribution
• Wellness program