General Ledger​/Cost Accountant

Overview

Would you like to work for a company where ambitious spirits and creativity thrive? L&L Products offers a culture that grows talent and flourishes with innovation. It is a place where you are encouraged take control of your own professional development by using L&L’s extensive training opportunities to craft solutions to the industry’s hottest problems. Here is where quality of work, product and relationships are a priority.

L&L Products is built on the basic philosophy that good people working together, listening to each other’s ideas with an open mind and everyone wanting to do a little better each day will ensure our success. Our existence is full of wise principles, sacrifices and victories, laughs, and lasting memories that tell exactly who we are. How we came to be the great company, the caring family that we are today.

What you’ll do: The General Ledger / Cost Accountant is responsible for maintaining the integrity of the company’s financial records while providing detailed manufacturing cost analysis to support operational and strategic decision-making. This dual-role position combines core general ledger accounting functions with manufacturing cost accounting responsibilities, ensuring accurate financial reporting, inventory valuation, cost control, and compliance with accounting standards.

• Perform ongoing and month‑end reviews of expense accounts to ensure accurate coding, proper classification, and compliance with accounting policies for financial reporting.
• Prepare and post journal entries, including accruals, prepaids, inventory, and manufacturing-related adjustments.
• Prepare supporting schedules and perform monthly account reconciliations; including inventory, cost of goods sold, fixed assets, CIP, tooling, prepaids, ship history, etc.
• Assist with month-end and year-end close processes.
• Prepare and deliver monthly financial and operational reports with clear explanations for period-over-performance changes.
• Manage the corporate credit card platform, ensuring proper user access, transaction monitoring, policy compliance, timely reconciliations, and accurate financial reporting.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Ensure compliance with company accounting policies, internal controls, and manufacturing accounting standards.
• Develop and document business processes and accounting policies to maintain and strengthen internal controls.
• Maintain and analyze manufacturing costs, including material, labor, and overhead.
• Perform cost variance analysis (PPV, labor / overhead) and investigate root causes related to production, purchasing, or efficiency issues.
• Support inventory valuation by reviewing costing and analyzing adjustments for obsolescence, slow‑moving items.
• Partner with operations, engineering, and supply chain teams to drive cost efficiency and process improvements.
• Prepare the annual auto allowance schedule, calculate and file monthly USE tax returns, and prepare property tax returns.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting, or equivalent experience in a manufacturing setting
• 2+ years of experience in general ledger and cost accounting within a manufacturing environment preferred.
• Experience with ERP systems supporting manufacturing operations (Oracle, SAP, or similar)
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and data analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a manufacturing mindset
• Continuous improvement mindset with the ability to adapt in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to interact effectively with all levels of an organization.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• High attention to detail and accuracy in financial and cost data
• Strong organizational skills

• Commitment to confidentiality
• Performance Driven
• Communication
• Customer Centric
• Passion/Values
• Safety/Sustainability
• Leadership

• Continuous sitting at desk
• Continuous computer work, keyboarding, computer mouse, and computer monitor
• Occasional standing and walking
• Rare climbing stairs, bending, and stooping

• Hot/Cold – occasional
• Humid/Dry – occasional
• Moving Objects – rare
• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision
• Onsite medical clinic
• Generous 401K contributions
• Top-notch wellness program with a focus on your total well-being

L&L Products does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. L&L Products will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship.