Job Description
Position Summary:
The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for overseeing cost accounting operations across multiple U.S. manufacturing locations while supporting corporate-level cost accounting, reporting, and analysis. This role partners closely with plant managers, operations leaders, and the corporate finance team to ensure accurate standard costing, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variance analysis across all sites. The ideal candidate combines strong technical cost accounting expertise with the ability to standardize processes, drive consistency across locations, and support corporate consolidation, budgeting, and financial reporting needs.
Essential Job Functions:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for overseeing cost accounting operations across multiple U.S. manufacturing locations while supporting corporate-level cost accounting, reporting, and analysis. This role partners closely with plant managers, operations leaders, and the corporate finance team to ensure accurate standard costing, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variance analysis across all sites. The ideal candidate combines strong technical cost accounting expertise with the ability to standardize processes, drive consistency across locations, and support corporate consolidation, budgeting, and financial reporting needs.
Essential Job Functions:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Lead standard costing processes (labor, material, and overhead) across multiple manufacturing facilities, ensuring consistency and accuracy in cost roll-ups
- Assist with corporate-level cost accounting projects, including system implementations, policy development, and internal control enhancements
- Analyze and report on manufacturing variances (purchase price, usage, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption) by location, identifying trends and root causes
- Partner with plant-level finance and operations teams to review inventory valuation, cycle count results, and scrap/obsolescence reserves
- Consolidate and analyze cost data across locations for corporate management reporting
- Identify opportunities for cost reduction and process improvement through data analysis and cross-site benchmarking
- Support external and internal audits by providing cost accounting documentation and analysis
- Travel to manufacturing sites as needed to support cost accounting initiatives and process standardization
- Ad Hoc Analysis and Projects
The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (CPA or CMA preferred)
- 5+ years of progressive cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment; multi-site experience strongly preferred
- Strong knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, and manufacturing variance analysis
- Proficiency with ERP systems (Infor Syteline a plus) and advanced Excel skills
- Excellent analytical, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Reading, PA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | https://www.edistaffing.com/ |
About Company
At EDI Staffing, we strive to provide the best staffing solutions for each of our business disciplines, in honest, resourceful, and creative techniques. Our mission is to connect talented people with great organizations across all industries, while maintaining our company values: accountability, innovation, integrity, teamwork and work ethic. Our commitment to our values becomes tangible in our daily customer interactions and lifetime customer relationships.
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