Senior Cost Accountant

Position Summary

Our client is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to join its Finance team and play a critical role in managing, analyzing, and improving product and inventory costing within a manufacturing environment. This position is responsible for product costing, variance analysis, work order costing, and inventory valuation accuracy while partnering closely with Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain teams.

Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

• Prepare and review month-end journal entries related to all cost transactions.
• Reconcile inventory balance sheet accounts and maintain supporting schedules.
• Maintain and analyze product costing, including labor, overhead, and machine rates.
• Analyze manufacturing variances, including material, labor, overhead, purchase price, and production variances, propose solutions.
• Ensure accurate work and production costing.
• Monitor inventory valuation, WIP, and manufacturing absorption accounts to ensure accuracy.
• Serve as a key finance resource for costing, inventory, and production processes within the organization's ERP system.
• Review cost structures, inventory transactions, and financial postings to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Ensure manufacturing costs are accurately reflected in financial reporting.
• Support internal and external audits.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Three or more years of cost accounting experience within a construction/manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of standard costing, and inventory accounting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including analysis of large datasets and account reconciliations.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills with experience supporting audits and financial reviews.
• Ability to challenge data, identify trends, and drive corrective action.

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.