Cost Accountant

Job Description:

CapWest Concrete is seeking an experienced Cost Accountant to join our fast-growing team, reporting to the Controller. This is a hands-on, high-visibility role. You will begin by establishing costing structures for one of our manufacturing operations, then expand into supporting a second business unit and the financial integration of a recently acquired production facility.

As the finance team grows, you will also help train a second cost accountant and contribute to defining how costing responsibilities are divided across the group.

This role suits a detail-oriented cost accountant who enjoys building processes from the ground up in a multi-entity, ERP-driven manufacturing environment, and who is comfortable moving between production floors, finance, and systems conversations.

PERKS & BENEFITS

• Competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package.

• Benefits include company-paid extended health care, dental care, vision care, life insurance, and critical illness coverage.

• Annual education allowance.

• Generous referral program.

• Fun and collaborative company culture with regular team-building events.

• Local discounts at restaurants, clothing stores, personal training and more.

• Complimentary access to a fully equipped gym.

• Friends & Family rates across hospitality brands.

What you will do.

Standard Costing, BOMs & Routings

• Build and maintain bills of material (BOMs), production routings, and standard costs within the ERP system.

• Establish and maintain landed costs and consolidated cost structures for raw materials, components, and finished goods.

• Partner with Operations and production teams to ensure BOMs and routings reflect actual manufacturing processes.

• Maintain BOM quantities, units of measure, scrap and yield assumptions, effective dates, and version controls so product costs remain accurate.

• Understand how work centres, production steps, setup time, run time, labour hours, machine hours, and production yields flow through routings and standard cost calculations.

• Support cost rollups and controlled updates to material, labour, machine, subcontract, and overhead standards.

Variance & Production Cost Analysis

• Analyze purchase price variances, material usage variances, labour variances, and overhead absorption variances.

• Identify root causes of cost variances and recommend corrective actions to Operations and Supply Chain.

• Monitor overhead absorption rates and recommend updates as production volumes and cost structures change.

• Develop and maintain manufacturing overhead pools, allocation drivers, and fixed and variable overhead rates using practical production measures such as labour hours, machine hours, batches, or output volume.

• Analyze under- and over-absorption, distinguish volume effects from spending or efficiency issues, and recommend rate or process changes when required.

• Evaluate batch yields, waste, rework, downtime, and other operating factors that affect actual production cost.

Inventory & Cost of Goods Sold

• Perform inventory valuation, reconciliation, and cost analysis across multiple production locations.

• Understand the complete cost flow from raw materials and work in process through finished goods inventory and cost of goods sold.

• Identify and monitor slow-moving, excess, and obsolete inventory.

• Lead month-end and quarter-end COGS close activities, including accruals, cost adjustments, journal entries, and reconciliations.

ERP Systems & Multi-Entity Support

• Participate in ERP configuration and setup meetings covering costing, production, and inventory modules across business units.

• Support cost-item setup, data validation, and testing as new entities and product lines are brought onto the shared ERP platform.

• Act as a costing subject-matter resource during system implementation and process standardization projects.

Reporting & Business Partnering

• Develop unit cost analysis, gross margin reporting, and cost-performance dashboards for management.

• Partner with the Controller and Operations/Product teams to validate costing inputs used in pricing and quoting decisions.

• Support internal and external audit requests related to inventory, cost of goods sold, and related accounts.

Team & Process Development

• Act as the group's initial dedicated costing resource across business units as the finance function scales.

• Document costing procedures and systems workflows to support onboarding of future finance hires.

• Help train and onboard a second cost accountant as headcount grows, and help define how costing duties are divided across business units.

What you bring.

Manufacturing Costing Knowledge

• 2+ years of relevant cost accounting experience, including direct experience in a manufacturing or process / discrete manufacturing environment.

• Hands-on knowledge of BOMs, routings, work centres, standard cost rollups, overhead rates, absorption, inventory valuation, and production variance analysis.

• Ability to explain how operational activities and master-data changes affect unit cost, inventory, margins, and cost of goods sold.

• Experience investigating cost variances with Operations and identifying the underlying operational or system cause, not only preparing the accounting entry.

ERP, Data & Operational Partnership

• Practical experience using ERP costing, inventory, and production modules.

• Strong Excel and data-analysis skills, with the ability to reconcile information across purchasing, production, inventory, and the general ledger.

• Comfort working with plant, production, supply chain, and finance teams to validate processes and costing assumptions on the production floor.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Progress toward a recognized accounting designation is preferred.

• Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to build clear, repeatable costing processes and documentation.

• Clear communication skills and the ability to translate detailed cost information into practical recommendations for management and Operations.

Salary Range:

$70,000 to $85,000k

About The Company:

Founded on more than 35 years of collective professional experience, CapWest is specialized in meeting the modern needs of the growing construction industry in North America. We provide integrated solutions for clients across diverse industries, following an efficient and cooperative approach, and always delivering project certainty. We believe it is the culmination of our passion for providing world-class construction and construction management services, while also fostering long-term relationships that yield exceptional and innovative outcomes that continue to shape the industry.

AI Use:

This role may involve the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support research, analysis, content development, design, reporting, or operational efficiency. Employees are expected to use AI responsibly and in compliance with company policies, data privacy requirements, confidentiality obligations, and applicable laws.

All AI-generated or AI-assisted outputs must be reviewed for accuracy, quality, and appropriateness before use. Employees are also expected to disclose when AI tools have been used in the creation of work and must not present AI-generated content as solely their own original work.

How To Apply:

Please apply through the link on the job posting and attach your resume and any other required documents.

We thank all applicants for your interest in the CapWest. Note that only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.