Cost Accountant

• Advanced Excel: pivot tables, XLOOKUP/INDEX-MATCH, SUMIFS, financial modeling.

Tri Mark USA is the country’s largest provider of design services, equipment, and supplies to the food service industry. We proudly serve our customers by providing design services, commercial equipment, and food service supplies across a wide range of industries and business sectors. Headquartered in Massachusetts, with a history dating back to 1896, we have locations across the country that offer food service operators an unparalleled level of service by combining our unique design capabilities and our expert market knowledge with the purchasing strength, delivery, installation, and after-sales service capabilities of a national company.

Our employees are focused on creating customized solutions for our clients to ensure they achieve their culinary goals while upholding our I.C.A.R.E. values:
Integrity, Customer Service, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. For more information, please visit:

• Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, Tuition Reimbursement, Pet, and Legal Insurance
• 401k
• Community Service Day
• Spotlight Awards
• National Sales Excellence Awards
• CFSP Prep Certification Program

• The Fabrication Shop Manager reports to the General Manager
• Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Full-Time in the Shop

We are a custom manufacturer of engineered-to-order products serving a diverse set of end markets. Every job is built to customer specification from released drawings, which makes accurate job costing, BOM integrity, and quote-to-actual discipline the backbone of our financial performance.

The Cost Accountant is responsible for tracking, analyzing, and reporting on the cost of every project from quote through shipment. This role owns standard costs, job cost variance analysis, WIP, and inventory valuation, and works shoulder-to-shoulder with estimators, production, and shipping to protect margin.

• Own project cost tracking for every active job from released work order through final invoice.
• Reconcile estimated vs. actual costs by job: raw materials, components, hardware, subcontract services, freight-in, direct labor, and shop overhead.
• Analyze margin performance by product family, customer, and channel; identify margin leakage.
• Partner with estimators post-shipment on quote-to-actual reviews; feed learnings back into standard costs and future bids.
• Track and report on change orders, scope adjustments, punch-list work, and warranty/rework costs by job.

• Maintain standard costs for raw materials, components, hardware, and purchased parts; refresh routinely as commodity pricing moves.
• Calculate and explain monthly variances: material price (PPV), material usage/yield, labor rate, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption.
• Track scrap and yield by material type; work with production on yield improvement.
• Support burdened labor rate and shop overhead rate development (machine hours vs. labor hours, by work center).

• Own inventory valuation for raw materials, WIP, and finished goods.
• Oversee cycle counts and annual physical inventory; reconcile variances and drive root-cause corrections.
• Monitor aged WIP - projects that have stalled on the floor or awaiting field data - and elevate to operations.
• Ensure proper cutoff for material receipts, subcontract services, and outbound freight.

• Prepare monthly Cost of Goods Manufactured (COGM) and Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) with variance commentary.
• Post journal entries for inventory adjustments, WIP roll-forward, scrap, freight, and overhead absorption.
• Reconcile inventory, WIP, and…