Cost Accounting Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Standard Costing: Build, maintain, and update standard costs across raw materials, labor,
  and overhead; own the annual standard cost roll. 
• Production Variances: Analyze purchase price, material usage, labor, and overhead
  variances; investigate root causes with operations and report findings to leadership.
• Inventory Valuation: Own inventory valuation across raw materials, work in process, and
  finished goods, including reserves for excess and obsolete inventory.
• Overhead Allocation: Design and maintain overhead absorption methodologies across sites
  and production lines 
• Cycle Counts: Oversee cycle count programs and physical inventory procedures; investigate
  and resolve discrepancies.
• Margin Analysis: Provide product-level and process-level cost and margin analysis to
  support pricing, capital, and process decisions.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Work directly with production, engineering, supply chain, and
  procurement to ensure BOMs, routings, and cost inputs reflect reality.
• Close and Audit: Own cost-related close activities, reconciliations, and audit schedules.
• Grants: Support cost accounting on sponsored and government-funded programs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field; CPA or CMA preferred. 
• 7+ years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Deep expertise in standard costing, variance analysis, inventory valuation, and overhead
  absorption.
• Strong working knowledge of BOMs, routings, and manufacturing operations.
• Proficiency with NetSuite ERP or a comparable system; advanced Excel skills.
• Experience partnering directly with plant and operations leadership.
• Willingness to spend time on the production floor to understand the process behind the
  numbers.
• Experience in a startup, scale-up, or greenfield manufacturing environment is a plus.

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