Cost Accountant

Location: City Of Industry

Description We are looking for a Cost Accountant to join our team in City of Industry, California and provide financial insight that supports sound manufacturing and commercial decisions. This position plays a key role in monitoring product and job costs, maintaining reliable inventory accounting, and helping business leaders understand margin performance across operations. The ideal candidate brings a solid foundation in cost accounting, hands-on experience in a manufacturing setting, and the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to improve accuracy, controls, and profitability.

Responsibilities:

- Manage product and job costing records in Epicor Kinetic, including standard costs, cost structures, bills of material, routings, labor assumptions, and overhead allocations.

- Evaluate differences between expected and actual costs across materials, labor, freight, subcontracting, tariffs, and other manufacturing inputs, then identify drivers and recommend corrective actions.

- Review job activity, completion status, estimated total costs, and exception items to ensure financial results are recorded accurately and on time.

- Partner with Operations and Engineering to confirm the accuracy of labor standards, yields, scrap assumptions, cycle times, and manufacturing routings used in costing.

- Support financial evaluation for new products, design updates, sourcing alternatives, make-versus-buy decisions, and customer pricing considerations.

- Reconcile inventory, work-in-process, accrued receipts, purchase price variance, subcontract activity, and related manufacturing balances to the general ledger.

- Participate in month-end close by preparing journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, variance reporting, and profitability analysis for management review.

- Monitor inventory controls through cycle counts, physical inventory support, review of adjustments, and analysis of obsolete stock, rework, scrap, and transaction exceptions.

- Collaborate with plant and business stakeholders to turn cost and margin data into recommendations that improve pricing, sourcing, efficiency, and overall profitability.

- Assist with reporting enhancements, audit support, documentation of controls, and process standardization efforts across locations, including broader organizational and master-data improvement initiatives. Requirements - 3+ years of experience in cost accounting, with exposure to manufacturing or industrial operations.

- Strong knowledge of standard costing, cost analysis, inventory accounting, and manufacturing variance review.

- Experience reconciling inventory-related accounts and supporting month-end close activities in a manufacturing environment.

- Ability to interpret operational data and explain financial results to cross-functional business partners.

- Familiarity with ERP systems used for manufacturing accounting; experience with Epicor Kinetic is strongly preferred.

- Proficiency in analyzing product margins, job profitability, labor and overhead performance, and purchase price impacts.

- Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to maintain accurate records and supporting documentation.

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