Manufacturing Cost Accounting Leader

What your day might look like

You start your morning reviewing yesterday’s production variances and margin trends across OEM lines. A quick huddle with Operations aligns on overhead absorption and labor/burden rates. Before lunch, you publish a Power BI dashboard that highlights cost drivers and inventory accuracy by category. In the afternoon, you partner with Dealer Sales to evaluate pricing strategies for parts and equipment, then wrap up by collaborating with the CFO on a month-end close checklist and KPI scorecards for department directors.

About Barbco

Barbco, Inc. builds industry-leading horizontal earth boring machines for the construction and infrastructure sectors. We value precision, teamwork, and growth, and we’re investing heavily in ERP/MRP, analytics, and scalable financial processes.

The impact you’ll make

• Serve as a hands-on accounting partner to the CFO, President, and department leaders—equipping them with accurate reporting, practical tools, and fact-based insights to guide decisions.
• Advance our financial foundation as we enhance ERP/MRP structures, cost centers, inventory visibility, OEM plant costing, dealer pricing strategy, and operational accountability.

Core responsibilities

Accounting and Financial Reporting

• Execute daily accounting activities, month-end close, reconciliations, AP/AR visibility, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Partner with the CFO on reporting accuracy, operational analysis, and process discipline.
• Develop and maintain KPIs, dashboards, and scorecards that elevate leadership visibility.
• Strengthen internal controls, approval workflows, accounting accuracy, and scalable processes.

Manufacturing, Inventory, and Cost Accounting

• Lead inventory/job/standard costing, production cost tracking, and margin analysis.
• Drive inventory reconciliation, cycle counts, controls, and cost accuracy.
• Improve OEM plant costing, including overhead absorption, under/over-absorbed overhead, labor and burden rates, production variances, and plant-level profitability.
• Identify cost drivers, inefficiencies, margin risk, and improvement opportunities across manufacturing.

ERP/MRP, Cost Centers, and GL Architecture

• Shape ERP/MRP financial setup—practical cost centers and aligned GL account structures.
• Balance reporting depth with administrative simplicity.
• Enable reporting by department, project, product line, inventory category, CapEx vs. OpEx, and function.
• Maintain consistency, discipline, and scalability as the organization grows.

Analytics and Department Enablement

• Use Power BI, ERP/MRP tools, and Excel to create clear visibility for teams.
• Support directors with budgets, KPI monitoring, spend and variance analysis, project tracking, and CapEx/OpEx planning.
• Translate data into insights, trends, and practical actions for better decisions.

Dealer Pricing, Margin, and Sales Support

• Partner with Dealer Sales, Purchasing, Operations, and leadership on parts/equipment pricing strategies.
• Protect OEM margins—pricing reviews and increases, cost and freight analysis, dealer profitability trends, and pricing model improvements.
• Build visibility into parts and equipment profitability and dealer pricing structures.

Purchasing and Operational Support

• Collaborate with Purchasing and operations to align spend, lead times, and cost objectives.

Professional Development and Light Travel

• Pursue continuous learning; expect occasional, light travel as needed.

What you bring

• Degree in accounting, finance, business, or related field preferred.
• 3+ years in accounting or finance preferred; manufacturing experience strongly preferred.
• Background in cost accounting, inventory, job/standard costing, ERP/MRP, budgeting, and reporting preferred.
• Proficiency with Power BI, Excel, dashboards, analytics, or BI tools preferred.
• Solid grasp of financial statements, GL structures, cost centers, margin analysis, and operational reporting.
• Analytical, organized, and strong communicator with practical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to support multiple departments with accurate, actionable guidance.

Who thrives here

A detail-focused, collaborative, business-minded professional who enjoys helping operations, purchasing, sales, finance, and leadership turn numbers into decisions—and who wants to build the reporting and analytical discipline that sustains growth.

Why Barbco

We’re a growing American manufacturer in the trenchless and underground construction space, investing in ERP/MRP, Power BI, operational excellence, dealer support, manufacturing capacity, inventory visibility, and scalable financial structure. This role lets you help shape the company’s financial and operational foundation for long-term success.

Benefits

• 401(k) with company match
• Dental, vision, health, and life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Health savings account
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off

Experience

• Accounting: 3 years (Required)

You should be proficient in

• Bachelor's Degree

Machines and technologies you’ll use

• ERP Software
• MRP
• Power BI
• Excel