Senior Manager, Industrial Advisory - Inventory Cost & Domestic Content

Senior Manager Industrial Advisory

Baker Tilly's Industrial Advisory team partners with manufacturing and distribution clients to solve complex operational and financial challenges through data-driven insights and strategic advisory services. Our professionals help clients improve operational performance, evaluate capital investments, optimize profitability, and leverage technology to drive better business decisions.

As a Senior Manager, you'll collaborate with teams across Baker Tilly to solve complex operational challenges and deliver high impact solutions. This role will involve heavy collaboration with clients, often working alongside them to help build value.

We are seeking a candidate who has hands-on experience developing and executing manufacturing cost accounting, inventory costing, and related systems and processes. The ideal candidate will have experience designing, implementing, managing, or advising on cost-accounting processes within manufacturing organizations and will be comfortable working with detailed product, manufacturing, purchasing, and inventory data.

Our clients require subject matter expertise from professionals who understand how products are manufactured, how manufacturing costs flow through an organization, and how accounting processes, ERP systems, operational data, and management reporting work together.

This individual will also provide senior leadership for the cost-accounting and data-analysis components of Baker Tilly's domestic content consulting services.

Successful candidates will be expected to take ownership of assigned engagements, exercise sound professional judgment, and move work forward with limited day-to-day oversight. The successful candidate will be proactive, resourceful, and able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.

As one of the fastest growing firms in the nation, Baker Tilly has the ability to offer you upward career trajectory, flexibility in how and where you get your work done and meaningful relationships with clients, teammates and leadership who truly care about you and your development.

• Lead consulting engagements involving inventory costing, product costing, manufacturing cost analysis, and related financial and operational processes.
• Assess client cost-accounting methodologies, systems, processes, controls, and data and identify opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, transparency, and management decision-making.
• Provide subject matter expertise in areas including: standard and actual costing, inventory valuation, bills of material and manufacturing routings, direct material and direct labor costs, manufacturing overhead and cost allocations, purchase price, material, labor, and manufacturing variances, inventory controls and cycle-counting programs, product and component cost structures, ERP costing and material-flow processes, cost and profitability reporting.
• Work with clients and ERP or technology teams to evaluate and improve cost-accounting processes and system configurations, including material-flow logic and product-costing methodologies.
• Design and oversee analyses of manufacturing costs, purchasing activity, inventory, variances, product profitability, and other financial and operational information.
• Develop practical methodologies for complex costing situations where client systems or available data do not readily provide the information required.
• Document and analyze client processes, internal controls, data flows, and workflows and recommend improvements.

• Provide senior leadership for the cost-accounting and financial-data components of domestic content consulting engagements.
• Work directly with manufacturers, suppliers, and client teams to obtain the detailed product, cost, and sourcing information necessary to perform domestic content analyses.
• Evaluate and analyze bills of material, supplier information, purchasing records, labor and routing data, manufacturing overhead, inventory records, product costs, and other manufacturing information.
• Develop methodologies for identifying, categorizing, and calculating domestic and non-domestic manufacturing costs or content in accordance with the requirements applicable to each engagement.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and limitations in manufacturer or supplier data and develop reasonable and supportable approaches to address those issues.
• Assist clients in developing repeatable processes, controls, and documentation for collecting and maintaining information needed to support domestic content requirements.
• Coordinate with Baker Tilly professionals in tax, incentives, government contracting, engineering, supply chain, legal, technology, and other specialties as appropriate.
• Review analyses and supporting documentation to ensure conclusions are accurate, consistent, and defensible to client management and other stakeholders.

• Develop engagement approaches, work plans, staffing models, budgets,…