Tool Install Cost Accounting Analyst

About the role

WGNSTAR is a dynamic and growing company with a global footprint, primarily focused on the semiconductor industry. We provide a platform for career growth with knowledge gained on the job training and tailored development.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

• Provides tool-level cost accounting support for semiconductor tool installation projects, ensuring accurate tracking of material spending, commitments, accruals, and reconciliations.
• Partners with procurement, vendor management, cost controls, construction teams, and project leadership to maintain financial transparency and reporting accuracy.
• Tracks material commitments, purchase orders, receipts, and installation-related expenditures by individual tool and installation package.
• Audits installed materials against procurement records, field execution status, and approved scope to verify costs are accurate, complete, and properly assigned.
• Investigates and resolves cost discrepancies, mismatches, and allocation issues in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Manages accruals, cost allocations, financial adjustments, and month-end reconciliation activities to ensure accurate forecasting and reporting.
• Led or supports spending reconciliations at key project milestones, including area turnover, construction completion, and project closeout.
• Identifies emerging cost risks, supports corrective actions, and prepares cost summaries and documentation for leadership review and decision-making.

Requirements

• Strong analytical, reconciliation, and cost management skills with the ability to accurately track commitments, actuals, accruals, forecasts, and variances.
• Experience translating procurement, field execution, and project data into clear cost reporting, financial insights, and actionable recommendations.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across finance, procurement, project controls, construction, and project management teams in complex project environments.
• Advanced systems and data analysis capabilities, including SAP and Excel, with experience validating large data sets, identifying discrepancies, and driving issue resolution.
• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of relevant experience in cost accounting, project controls, procurement support, financial reconciliation, construction cost management, or other related discipline.

Preferences

• Experience supporting semiconductor fabs, tool installations, advanced manufacturing, and other large-scale industrial capital projects.
• Knowledge of construction cost management systems, procurement processes, change management workflows, and project closeout requirements.
• Proven ability to reconcile material, equipment, and installation costs at the tool, system, area, or contractor level while ensuring accurate invoice validation and accrual management.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly present cost performance, forecast changes, and financial risks to both project teams and executive leadership.

Physical Effort/Activities

• May be required to walk up to 5+miles per day, able to be on feet for 8-10 hrs at a time, able to bend, twist, push/pull, crouch, kneel in confined spaces, work at heights, on a ladder, and lift up to 50-75 pounds.

Additional Benefits

• Paid Vacation
• Select Holidays
• Overtime Opportunities
• On-site Facilities & Career Development Opportunities

Schedule

M-F (7:00am-4:00pm)

Pay Rate

$45+ DOE

Location

Boise, ID

Position Type

Full Time

Benefits

• This position is eligible for WGNSTAR’s full benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k).
• Additional benefits are listed at the end of this posting.