Senior Cost Accountant

About the role

The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for developing, reviewing, and controlling standard costs while analyzing manufacturing variances and their impact on the P&L. This position supports the monthly financial close process, inventory accounting, cost analysis, and financial reporting within a manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Update, monitor, and analyze the Cycle Count Program and assist with inventory audits.
• Execute monthly scrap reporting and help ensure a high degree of inventory accuracy through monitoring of the perpetual inventory system.
• Review and recommend potential write-offs of obsolete and damaged inventory and ensure accurate valuation of goods on hand.
• Assist in maintaining standard cost control systems and procedures.
• Maintain processes for creating and updating standard costs, including labor and overhead rate calculations.
• Monitor engineering change notifications and implement approved changes to Bills of Material (BOMs).
• Analyze and report manufacturing variances.
• Reconcile and analyze general ledger accounts.
• Review and analyze monthly manufacturing expenses.
• Support month-end close activities.
• Reconcile raw materials, work-in-process (WIP), and finished goods inventory; calculate inventory turns and obsolescence; prepare month-end journal entries; reconcile accounts; review monthly financials; and support effective gross margin management.
• Perform other duties as required.

Skills

• Oracle costing and inventory modules
• Oracle ERP
• Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables and macros
• Microsoft Office
• Manufacturing inventory systems
• RF scanners
• Weighing/counting scales
• Knowledge of applicable ISO requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 2-5 years of hands-on cost accounting experience, including inventory control experience within a manufacturing environment.
• Oracle ERP experience within a manufacturing environment is highly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing BOMs, routers, WIP, and bottom-up standard cost creation.
• Strong knowledge of inventory management within a manufacturing environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables and macros.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and planning skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective professional relationships across multiple levels of an organization.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to organize financial information logically and accurately.

About the company

Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions.