Senior Cost Accountant

The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for leading and managing cost accounting activities while supporting key financial responsibilities within the business unit. This role maintains a cost control environment that complies with internal control policies and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, provides financial analysis, investigates variances and anomalies, and supports operational and strategic decision-making through accurate costing and reporting.

• Apply finance and cost accounting principles to financial and operational planning, reporting, and analysis.
• Maintain the manufacturing plant's cost accounting systems, cost controls, and data integrity.
• Coordinate, administer, and analyze manufacturing operations, including: sales and cost of sales analysis, labor reporting, product costing, material usage variance analysis, inventory adjustments used for pricing reviews
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of cost flows, including machine and labor hours, overhead allocations, and material costs to ensure proper costing.

• Lead the planning, coordination, execution, and analysis of physical inventory activities.
• Reconcile financial inventory records to perpetual inventory records on a monthly basis.
• Coordinate inventory processes across production departments, outside stockrooms, and vendors.
• Oversee and manage the annual Fixed Asset Physical Inventory process and annual 4-Wall Inventory.
• Review, analyze, and report on: inventory levels, inventory reserves, including excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory, slow-moving inventory, obsolete inventory, scrap activity, intercompany transfers
• Monitor cycle count performance and compliance with corporate cycle count procedures.
• Issue monthly cycle count reports and analysis.

• Ensure accurate product costing through review of bills of materials (BOMs), overhead rates, routings, and related cost drivers.
• Review and load material standard costs into the ERP system.
• Perform assembly cost rollups.
• Analyze cost changes, margin impacts, and inventory valuation adjustments.
• Conduct make-versus-buy analyses.
• Execute standard cost update processes.
• Develop and monitor labor and overhead rates by department and cost center.
• Partner with manufacturing engineering to ensure cost and rate accuracy.
• Review cost routings and BOMs for reasonableness and accuracy.
• Drive, prepare, and analyze information required for annual standard cost updates.
• Perform quarterly LIFO calculations and reporting.
• Review and close manufacturing work orders.

• Analyze and validate monthly labor utilization and efficiency results.
• Review and investigate purchase price variances and material usage variances.
• Collaborate with marketing and purchasing to establish appropriate costs for new parts and assemblies.
• Prepare monthly manufacturing performance reports and analyze results against forecasts and budgets.
• Monitor weekly MMC reports for fluctuations, abnormalities, margin concerns, or other potential issues.
• Research and explain financial variances, anomalies, and operational performance trends.

• Prepare recurring monthly journal entries related to inventory, labor reporting, cost of sales, and other assigned areas.
• Complete account reconciliations supporting monthly journal entries.
• Track capital project spending and maintain the Capital Roll-forward.
• Create and monitor accounting for special projects.
• Assist in the preparation of annual operating and capital budgets.

• Develop computer-driven reports, dashboards, and operational metrics to support manufacturing and business operations.
• Analyze and interpret…