The Senior Cost Accountant is a newly created position designed to strengthen cost accounting, inventory management, and manufacturing finance capabilities. This highly visible role partners with finance, operations, engineering, purchasing, and leadership teams to improve accuracy, controls, reporting, and operational decision-making.
THIS ROLE IS FULLY ON-SITE IN MA
Client Details
Our client is a growing and profitable advanced manufacturing organization specializing in highly technical products and operating in a global manufacturing environment. The company is focused on continuous improvement and operational excellence, with a strong emphasis on innovation, process improvement, and cross-functional collaboration.
Description
THIS ROLE IS FULLY ON-SITE IN MA
Cost Accounting & Manufacturing Finance
- Maintain cost accounting systems, cost controls, and data integrity within the manufacturing operation.
- Apply cost accounting principles to operational planning, reporting, analysis, and decision support.
- Coordinate and analyze manufacturing operations, including product costing, labor reporting, inventory adjustments, and material usage variance analysis.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of cost flows, including labor, overhead allocation, material costs, and machine-hour drivers.
Inventory Management & Controls
- Lead physical inventory planning, execution, reconciliation, and analysis activities.
- Reconcile financial inventory records to perpetual inventory records on a monthly basis.
- Monitor inventory levels, reserves, excess and obsolete inventory, slow-moving inventory, scrap activity, and intercompany transfers.
- Monitor cycle count compliance and reporting while supporting improvements in inventory controls.
- Oversee annual inventory and fixed asset inventory processes.
Standard Costing & Analysis
- Review bills of materials (BOMs), routings, overhead rates, and cost drivers to ensure accurate product costing.
- Manage standard cost updates, material standard costs, assembly cost rollups, and inventory valuation adjustments.
- Analyze cost changes, margin impacts, labor utilization, efficiency metrics, purchase price variances, and material usage variances.
- Conduct make-versus-buy analysis and support annual standard cost updates.
- Review and close manufacturing work orders.
Reporting, Process Improvement & Business Partnership
- Develop reports, dashboards, metrics, and operational analytics to support business decisions. ,
- Identify and implement process improvements that increase accuracy, efficiency, and effectiveness within the cost accounting function. ,
- Create and maintain documentation for cost accounting processes, internal controls, and standard operating procedures.
- Partner closely with manufacturing personnel, engineering, production planning, purchasing, and other cross-functional teams.
- Support internal and external audits and maintain compliance with internal control and SOX requirements.
- Participate in ad hoc analyses, special projects, and operational improvement initiatives.
Profile
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Strong manufacturing cost accounting experience in a standard cost environment.
- Experience supporting manufacturing operations through costing, inventory management, and financial analysis.
- Experience with SOX Section 404 internal control assessments or publicly traded company control environments.
- Strong understanding of standard costing, inventory controls, variance analysis, and manufacturing accounting concepts.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA designation or active CPA candidate.
- MBA or CMA designation.
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly Navision).
- Experience with Hyperion Financial Management (HFM)
Job Offer
Salary - Benefits - PTO
THIS ROLE IS FULLY ON-SITE IN MA
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