Cost Accountant

Amca is building airplanes for the 21st century, starting by designing new hardware that flies on today’s planes. Aviation was once humanity’s boldest ambition, but the industry hasn’t successfully built a new plane in 40 years. We don’t think it has to be this way.

Overview

You will build cost accounting systems from the ground up at newly acquired subsidiaries. You will create accurate product costing, inventory tracking, and reporting frameworks that improve operational transparency and financial decision-making. You will partner closely with the Head of Finance to implement automation tools and modernize financial operations across multiple manufacturing environments.

Qualifications

• Expert in cost accounting, product costing, margin analysis, and manufacturing financial workflows
• Strong understanding of standard cost, variance analysis, and inventory accounting
• Ability to build cost frameworks from scratch in small manufacturing environments
• Experience with accounting and ERP systems
• Ability to synthesize operational data into accurate cost structures
• Comfortable working with engineers, operators, and production managers to collect and validate inputs
• Strong familiarity of inventory accounting in a manufacturing environment
• A&D experience is a plus
• Strong analytical judgment and attention to detail
• Proficient in Excel and operational reporting
• Communication skills
• Clear, concise, and structured
• Able to explain cost concepts to non-accounting teams
• Strong writing skills and documentation discipline
• Thoughtful, direct, and decisive in discussions
• Work Style
• Humble and meticulous
• High personal intensity and ownership
• Comfortable operating in imperfect environments and fixing broken systems
• Motivated by building a modern industrial company from the ground up
  

Responsibilities

• Develop cost accounting frameworks for acquired subsidiaries, including product costing, labor costing, and overhead allocation
• Establish and maintain inventory accounting processes, including BOM accuracy, work in progress tracking, and cycle counts
• Create and implement standard cost systems that provide reliable margin and profitability reporting
• Analyze cost variances and identify operational drivers
• Work with production teams to validate labor routing, material usage, and overhead assumptions
• Build dashboards and reporting tools that support operational and financial decision-making
• Partner closely with the Head of Finance to implement automation tools and integrate cost accounting into broader finance systems
• Support financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting with accurate cost inputs
• Assist in preparing materials for audits, lenders, and internal reviews
  
  

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). All applicants must be U.S. persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a US person as: any individual who is granted U.S. citizenship; any individual who is granted U.S. permanent residence (“Green Card” holder); or any individual who is granted status as a “protected person” under 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3).

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