Senior Cost Analyst

Location:

Port Washington, WI (Fully Onsite)

Full-Time

We are seeking a highly analytical and operationally focused Costing professional with deep experience in project-based environments. The ideal candidate excels in complex costing scenarios, thrives amid ambiguity, and brings a process improvement mindset to drive accuracy, profitability insights, and better cost discipline across the business.

• Project & Job Costing in Complex Environment
• Lead costing activities across engineered-to-order, custom manufacturing, construction, or similar project-based operations—beyond traditional plant or standard cost accounting.
• Quoted/Budgeted vs. Actual Cost Analysis
• Review and analyze variances between estimated and actual results; identify drivers of cost overruns, margin leakage, and operational inefficiencies.
• Margin & Profitability Insight
• Investigate margin erosion, determine where projects lose money, and deliver actionable insights to leadership, operations, installation teams, or engineering.
• Manage High Project Volume
• Support and track costing for 40–50+ live projects simultaneously, maintaining accuracy and attention to detail in a fast-moving environment.
• Cross-Functional Operations Support
• Partner closely with installation teams, schedulers, production, and operations to understand status, handoffs, bottlenecks, and cost drivers across the project lifecycle.
• ERP & Data Management
• Operate effectively in an environment with imperfect or nonintegrated ERP systems; pull data manually, consolidate fragmented information, and build clear, reliable reporting.
• Process Improvement & Modeling
• Develop improved costing models, templates, estimation tools, and standardized reporting approaches to strengthen forecasting and operational transparency.
• Revenue & Cost Recognition
• Apply knowledge of percentage-of-completion accounting, project-based revenue recognition, and cost tracking to ensure accurate financial reporting.