Sr. Cost Accountant

Overview
Do you want to join a team that's changing the world? Do you have a strong background as a Sr. Cost Accountant? Then we're looking for you! Put your skills to meaningful use, gain unique experience, and work with world-class team members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who share the same vision. Join the PECNA team today!

Overview
Do you want to join a team that's changing the world? Do you have a strong background as a Sr. Cost Accountant? Then we're looking for you! Put your skills to meaningful use, gain unique experience, and work with world-class team members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who share the same vision. Join the PECNA team today!
Responsibilities

Sr. Cost Accountant

Summary
Join us at Panasonic Energy as we expand to De Soto, Kansas, where we’re building the world’s largest lithium-ion battery factory. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your career while contributing to the future of electric vehicles. As part of our team, you’ll help push the limits of battery technology, enhancing performance and efficiency in sustainable transportation. Our state‑of‑the‑art facility, just outside the Kansas City Metro, will be a hub for innovation in green energy solutions.

If you’re passionate about sustainability and eager to contribute to the electric vehicle revolution, we invite you to be part of our dynamic team. Join us and make a meaningful impact on the future of energy and transportation.

Job Summary
The Sr. Cost Accountant serves as a recognized technical expert in cost accounting, financial analysis, reporting, and business insights supporting manufacturing operations and business decisions. This role owns the most complex product costing, inventory control, and internal control challenges, and is a go‑to resource across the function for resolving ambiguous or high‑impact issues. Partners with Operations, Supply Chain, and Quality leadership to translate operational activities into financial impact, shape key metrics and analytics, and elevate processes, controls and business transparency across the organization.

Essential Duties

Cost Accounting and Analysis:

• Serve as the escalation point and functional expert for the most complex production cost accounting and cost center expense analysis, partnering with FP&A and business leaders to assess financial health and identify opportunities
• Own the integrity of product costing methodology in SAP S4/Hana, establishing standards for master data governance and calculation methods; lead root cause analysis on the most complex costing issues
• Lead investigation of the most significant and complex production, operational, and purchasing variances (Inventory, Absorption, PPV, etc.), developing improvement recommendations for leadership
• Lead raw material standard vs. actual variance analysis and cost development reviews for high‑complexity or high‑risk items, including BOM/routing accuracy audits; refine variance root cause methodology and tracking
• Provide expert‑level evaluation, recording, and analysis of complex or judgment‑driven fixed asset acquisition, capitalization, and life cycle activities

Financial Close & Reporting:

• Serve as the technical expert for monthly financial close, production‑related settlements, cycle counts, and inventory audits, resolving the most complex issues
• Review and validate GL account reconciliations, ensuring accuracy of financial postings across the function
• Lead the preparation and analysis of manufacturing, quality, and supply chain reports, translating findings into actionable business insights
• Oversee resolution of complex or escalated vendor invoice discrepancies for raw material purchases

Compliance & Internal Controls:

• Lead cost accounting efforts to maintain JSOX internal controls,…