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Senior Cost Analyst
Location: Miami, FL area (within ~1 hour). Flexible hybrid with occasional in-office days.
Type: Long-term contract-to-hire
About the Company
Our client builds power infrastructure for the AI era. Their technology is proven at gigawatt scale, deployed across 2.5 GW of hyperscale campuses, validated by top U.S. national labs, and certified for grid-safe operation by major utilities. Leading cloud and AI companies rely on it to scale faster than the grid allows.
What You ll Do
- Run monthly, quarterly, and year-end labor cost allocations across departments, cost centers, projects, entities, and funding sources.
- Allocate fully loaded labor costs (salary, bonus, benefits, taxes, equity), and maintain and document the allocation methods and drivers.
- Reconcile allocations to payroll, the GL, and HRIS, and resolve any variances.
- Deliver allocation journals and schedules for month-end close, and support audit, tax, and compliance needs such as R&D credits and capitalized labor.
- Build labor cost and headcount reports and dashboards, and partner with FP&A on forecasting and budget-to-actuals.
- Keep employee data clean at the source by working with HRIS, Payroll, and managers, and maintain controls and process documentation.
What You Bring
- 7 years in data, financial, payroll/HR analytics, or accounting roles
- Bachelor s degree in Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Economics, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets and working SQL, with comfort handling large, messy datasets
- A strong reconciliation track record across multiple systems
- Ability to explain methodology clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Discretion with confidential compensation data
Nice to Have
- Labor cost allocation, cost accounting, or month-end close experience
- Workday, ADP, HiBob, or NetSuite
- Experience building controls and audit-ready documentation
- Multi-entity or multi-country allocations