Senior Cost Accountant - Manufacturing

Senior Cost Accountant
Location: Northeast Iowa
Work Model: Onsite
Compensation: $90,000 – $105,000 + Benefits

We are partnering with a well-established, privately held manufacturing company in Northeast Iowa to identify a Senior Cost Accountant to join its finance team.

This organization is a market leader in its space, with a strong reputation, a stable ownership structure, and continued investment in its people, operations, and systems. This is an exciting opportunity to join a healthy, growing business and play a meaningful role in strengthening and modernizing the company’s cost accounting function.

This role reports directly to the Controller and will work closely with finance and operations leadership.

This is a highly visible role that will serve as the organization’s primary dedicated cost accounting resource, supporting both day-to-day costing responsibilities and longer-term process improvement initiatives.

The ideal candidate will bring strong manufacturing cost accounting experience and the ability to operate effectively in a hands-on environment while helping improve systems, reporting, and costing processes over time.

• Lead cost accounting activities including standard costing, inventory accounting, and variance analysis
• Support monthly close activities, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting
• Analyze manufacturing costs and identify trends/opportunities for operational improvement
• Partner cross-functionally with operations, engineering, and manufacturing leadership
• Help improve BOM accuracy, routings, and ERP utilization
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate reporting and improve efficiency
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across finance and operations

• 2+ years of manufacturing cost accounting experience required
• Strong understanding of:
  • standard costing
  • inventory accounting
  • variance analysis
  • BOMs and routings
• Comfortable working in a manufacturing environment
• Strong Excel and systems aptitude
• Ability to work independently in a lean, collaborative environment

Preferred:

• ERP experience (Epicor a plus)
• Experience with both standard costing and job costing
• Prior process improvement or ERP optimization experience

• Join a stable, profitable, privately held manufacturer
• High visibility within a lean finance team
• Opportunity to own and improve the costing function
• Strong leadership support and long-term growth potential
• Competitive compensation and benefits