Controller, Accounting, Cost Accountant

Masis Staffing is seeking a Controller (Manufacturing / Cost Accounting) for a client in Littleton, MA. This is a full-time role, onsite 5 days a week.

• Manage and review timely and accurate month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, including journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and management reporting.
• Prepare, review, and analyze monthly financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP and company policies.
• Analyze departmental and company-wide P&L results compared to budget, forecast, prior year, and operating plans.
• Prepare financial reporting packages and supporting analysis for senior management, executive leadership, Board of Directors, auditors, and other stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain accounting policies and procedures to ensure consistency, compliance, and scalability.
• Supervise, mentor, and develop accounting staff, fostering accountability, accuracy, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Own and manage the company’s cost accounting function, including standard costing, actual costing analysis, inventory valuation, product costing, and manufacturing variance analysis.
• Maintain and review standard costs, labor rates, overhead rates, material burden rates, and manufacturing cost assumptions.
• Analyze and report manufacturing variances, including purchase price variance, material usage variance, labor efficiency variance, overhead absorption, production volume variance, and inventory revaluation impacts.
• Partners with Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Engineering to understand cost drivers, production performance, inventory movements, and margin trends.
• Support product margin analysis, project profitability analysis, cost reduction initiatives, and operational KPI reporting.
• Review inventory reserves, excess and obsolete inventory calculations, slow-moving inventory analysis, and lower-of-cost-or-market considerations.
• Ensure accurate accounting for raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, spare parts, service inventory, and project-based inventory, as applicable.
• Support periodic cycle counts, annual physical inventories, and reconciliation of inventory discrepancies.
• Coordinate with operations teams to improve inventory accuracy, transaction discipline, and cost reporting.
• Develop reporting that provides visibility into manufacturing costs, absorption, inventory turns, gross margin, and operational performance.
• Provide financial support for make-versus-buy decisions, capital investment analysis, production efficiency initiatives, and manufacturing process improvements.

• Serve as a technical accounting resource for complex accounting matters, including revenue recognition, inventory accounting, leases, capitalized costs, impairments, consolidation, foreign currency, and other applicable accounting areas.
• Establish, maintain, and improve internal controls over financial reporting, accounting operations, inventory, cost accounting, cash, fixed assets, revenue recognition, and financial systems.
• Lead or support development of the Annual Operating Plan, capital budget, and periodic forecasts.
• Provide monthly variance analysis for revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, inventory, manufacturing costs, and capital spending.

• Manage monthly consolidation and reporting of foreign entities, subsidiaries, or affiliated companies, as applicable.
• Review intercompany transactions and monthly intercompany reconciliations.
• Ensure proper accounting for foreign currency transactions, translation adjustments, and intercompany balances.
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