Senior Cost Accountant

Senior Cost Accountant

Location:

Kent, WA (fully onsite) Monday-Friday

The Senior Cost Accountant will play a crucial role in managing and analyzing the cost structure of manufacturing operations. This position involves detailed cost analysis, budgeting, and financial reporting to ensure efficiency and profitability. The Senior Accountant will work closely with production, inventory, and finance teams to provide actionable insights and support strategic decision-making.

Salary range: $130,000 to $145,000, depending on experience.

• Plan, study, and collect data to determine costs of business activity such as raw material purchases, inventory and labor.
• Analyze data collected and record results.
• Analyze changes in product design, raw materials, manufacturing methods or services provided, to determine effects on cost.
• Analyze actual manufacturing costs and prepare periodic reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs.
• Comply with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) for financial statements.
• Record cost information for use in controlling expenditures.
• Analyze audits of costs and prepare reports.
• Create estimates of new and proposed product costs.
• Provide management team with reports specifying and comparing factors affecting prices and profitability of products or services.
• Maintain Cost Accounting System.
• Calculate key figures such as labor burden rates, overhead burden rates, and labor efficiency rates.
• Assist in month end close of the General Ledger.
• Conduct physical inventories and monitor cycle count program.
• Reconcile finished goods inventories.
• Required to have a strong comfort-level communicating throughout all levels of the organization.
• Understand, support and execute all work according to the established procedures of the organization.
• Project based assignments as requested.

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience with a Bachelors degree in accounting or finance; or 3 years experience and a Master's degree; or equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience.
• Certified public accountant (CPA) license is a plus.
• Must possess excellent computer skills, Microsoft applications (i.e., Excel, Word, PPT, Access/SQL etc.), Net Suite experience preferred.
• Prior experience leveraging technology to achieve complex consolidations.
• Strong hands‑on experience in complex financial modeling, problem solving, analysis and planning.
• Excellent problem‑solving skills with attention to detail; ability to analyze the overall business impact.
• Strong written communication and verbal skills and strong attention to detail.
• Proven ability to multi‑task, set project priorities, goals and objectives.
• Ability to communicate with co‑workers, customers, and vendors effectively & professionally.

Required Bachelors or better in Accounting or related field.

• Required to sit, talk or hear; frequently required to use hands to grip or feel; and occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Vision and depth perception suitable for use of utilizing a computer, printer, phone, and keyboard.
• Manual dexterity suitable for use of utilizing a computer.
• Sufficient personal mobility and physical reflexes which permits the employee to work in an office setting.
• Ability to walk and/or climb 5% of the time comfortably, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to sit at a computer for 90% of the time comfortably, with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Light to moderate lifting.

• Must be comfortable working in an office environment to include moderate noise levels.
• The working area is primarily in an open office setting with reasonable lighting and controlled temperatures.

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