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Cost Accounting Manager (Electronics)

Aleron
San Jose, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/16/2026

Description
Acara Solutions has been providing manufacturing firms with our staffing services nationally for over 65 years. Our international electronics manufacturing client needs a Cost Accounting Manager for their San Jose, CA plant. This is a salaried direct position with strong benefits. Target salary range is $105K - $110K.

This is a site level Cost Accounting Manager position.

Prepare/generate daily and weekly operational metrics including, but not limited to: Shipments / Bookings, Net Production, Direct Material Issuances, Labor Incurred, Scrap Incurred/Remakes started.

  • Analyze performance metrics inclusive of those above and others to understand plant performance and make recommendations to Finance Business Partner and General Manager.
  • Work with operational department managers to understand cost performance, analyze period variances from standards or forecast.
  • Support Finance Business Partner in preparation of Budget/Forecast/Period End Variance Analysis cycle.
  • Monitor capital projects from ROI calculation, project approval stage, to capitalization.
  • Support and manage all internal and external audit requests and resolve audit issues as they occur.
  • Prepare Revenue Recognition testing analysis
  • Coordinate with Shared Services Center on vendor/customer/GL issues as they arise.
  • Coordinate with Shared Services Center and Customer Service to assist in AR collection efforts where required
  • Coordinate/execute Quarterly sample audits of raw, WIP and FG material.
  • Support multiple operational reporting schedules/requirements (cost savings, scorecards, QBR, capacity utilization, etc.).
  • Support Finance Business Partner in preparation of quarterly RMA incident rate calculation.
  • Calculate periodic RAW/WIP/FGI valuation including reserves and capitalized variance analysis
  • Responsible for maintaining raw, FG and WIP standards.
  • Responsible for understanding and reporting our production variances
  • Responsible for cycle count testing and YE physical count with Controller.
  • Prepare market financial results bridge commentary
Job Requirements
Required Skills / Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting of Finance
Min 2 years of accounting experience in a manufacturing environment that includes at least 1 year of cost accounting/costing.
Min 2 years of advanced Excel
Preferred Skills / Qualifications:
Oracle


Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
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Aleron companies; Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, Viaduct, and Aleron's strategic partner, SDI are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, sex, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

 

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