Senior Cost Accountant

This range is provided by LHH. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

The Senior Cost Accountant will collect and analyze complex financial information related to the organization’s expenses, seeking ways to improve the accuracy of budgets and forecasts and to decrease the cost of departments and projects. This position reports to the Director of Finance & Analysis.

• Deliver excellence in financial reporting — preparation and review of month-end journal entries.
• Review inventory-related reconciliations in Blackline.
• Conduct periodic inventory variance analyses with a strong understanding of inputs and drivers.
• Ensure completion of inventory and manufacturing controls.
• Lead timely submission of audit requests for inventory testing.
• Own and coordinate execution of cost rolls with clear communications to the business.
• Perform detailed cost analysis and develop standard operating review processes.
• Evaluate labor and overhead rates for multiple manufacturing/DC sites as set in the ERP system; propose adjustments to reflect true product cost and profitability.
• Review Bill of Materials, Routers, Overhead Rates, throughput rates, and purchased raw material prices.
• Prepare product costing and profitability analysis.
• Inventory:
  Use data, analytics, and business knowledge to support a healthy inventory level for the business.
• Analyze inventory turns by product and identify opportunities to improve within each product's supply chain context.
• Lead physical inventory counts, review, and analysis.
• Reporting and analytics:
  Understand and explain manufacturing variances in the monthly P&L; guide operational changes as needed to rectify variances.
• Develop and standardize automated labor utilization/efficiency/productivity metrics and collaborate with sites to drive targeted outcomes.
• Monitor variable costs that do not exceed volume trends.
• Provide ad-hoc financial reporting and analysis as needed by management.
• Finance support:
  Develop KPIs and a dashboard to help manufacturing and non-financial leaders understand significant cost trends.
• Partner with supply chain to manage commodity cost tracking and monitor financial impacts.
• Support inbound and outbound freight analysis and forecast models.
• Enhance and maintain internal capex tracking and forecast.

• Desire to drive collaboration and partnership between multiple departments and sites to develop solutions and improvements.
• Strong communication skills and ability to interact with all levels of the organization.
• Innovative and creative approach to problem-solving with a curious mindset that thinks beyond the stated topic or task, and uses analytical skills to fully understand all relevant factors—providing clarity for business decisions.
• Strong work ethic with the ability to adapt quickly in a growing and changing environment.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direct supervision and willingness to engage across the organization to drive progress and communication.

• Bachelor's degree required; degree in Finance or Accounting preferred.
• 5+ years of cost accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of accounting theory, cost accounting concepts, and GAAP.
• Efficient with large data sets and analytical outputs.
• Advanced skills in Power BI and Excel are a plus.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Accounting/Auditing

• Accounting and Manufacturing