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Position Title: Cost Accountant - Plant
Reports To: Controller
Reports To: Controller
Location: Spartanburg, SC
People First. Safety is the Foundation.
Join our innovative manufacturing team where precision and quality come together to drive industry-leading production and continuous improvement. At Motus, we’re revolutionizing the manufacturing industry and seeking a passionate, forward-thinking Cost Accountant to help us make an impact and drive this position to new heights.
A successful candidate will be high energy, driven, resourceful and a problem solver
The Cost Accountant – Plant plays a key role within the Plant Finance team, driving operational excellence, ensuring accurate financial reporting, strengthening internal controls, and supporting strategic business decisions. This individual will support a wide range of financial, cost, and inventory functions to ensure the plant’s financial performance is transparent, controlled, and continuously improving.
Summary of Responsibilities:
People First. Safety is the Foundation.
Join our innovative manufacturing team where precision and quality come together to drive industry-leading production and continuous improvement. At Motus, we’re revolutionizing the manufacturing industry and seeking a passionate, forward-thinking Cost Accountant to help us make an impact and drive this position to new heights.
A successful candidate will be high energy, driven, resourceful and a problem solver
The Cost Accountant – Plant plays a key role within the Plant Finance team, driving operational excellence, ensuring accurate financial reporting, strengthening internal controls, and supporting strategic business decisions. This individual will support a wide range of financial, cost, and inventory functions to ensure the plant’s financial performance is transparent, controlled, and continuously improving.
Summary of Responsibilities:
Plant Accounting & Close Activities
- Lead and assist with month-end and weekly close tasks, including journal entries, accruals, and variance analysis.
- Prepare and analyze plant financial reporting packages for Corporate and local management.
- Perform monthly subledger-to-GL reconciliations, including inventory, fixed assets, AR, AP, and intercompany accounts.
- Prepare weekly and monthly bank reconciliations.
Costing, Inventory & Profitability
- Manage standard cost updates, cost rolls, and variance analysis (PPV, labor, overhead, absorption, etc.).
- Conduct profitability analyses by customer, program, and product line versus budget and forecast.
- Lead and coordinate the Annual Physical Inventory and cycle count program; ensure timely reconciliation and follow-through on adjustments.
- Perform BOM and process routing audits to ensure data accuracy.
- Support continuous improvement of inventory accuracy and shop-floor controls.
Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Planning
- Support the Annual Budget and Midyear Forecast cycles for plant operations.
- Track weekly results versus budget and forecast, highlighting opportunities and risks.
- Track and reconcile Capital Expenditure budgets and fixed asset activity.
Internal Controls, Compliance & Audit
- Support annual audit requirements (internal, external, interim, and year-end).
- Perform internal control activities, including participating in shop-floor audits.
- Ensure compliance with SOX or other applicable control frameworks.
- Assist in developing and deploying finance-related policies and procedures plant-wide.
Cross-Functional & Intercompany Collaboration
- Coordinate with Operations, Supply Chain, Purchasing, Engineering, and Corporate Finance to process customer, supplier, and intercompany transactions.
- Perform global intercompany accounting and reconciliation.
- Assist in various special projects, financial analysis requests, and process improvement initiatives.
- Assist Plant Accounting with month-end and weekly close tasks
- Annual audit requirements
- Internal Control activities and audit to the shop floor
- Desirable experience working with SOX or any other compliance system
- Annual and Midyear budgeting process
- Weekly tracking to budget and forecast
- Std Cost and variance analysis
- Profitability Analysis, by customer and program vs Budget
- Prepare monthly report data for corporate and the management team
- Take the lead and coordinate the Annual Physical Inventory
- Inventory reconciliation
- Coordinate with various departments to process customer, supplier, and intercompany invoices
- Perform global intercompany accounting and reconciliation
- BOM and process routing audit
- Assist in special projects as needed
- Fixed Assets reconciliation
- Tracking the budget of Capital Expense
Minimum Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or closely related field.
- 3–5 years of relevant accounting or cost accounting experience preferred.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing cost accounting, variance analysis, and inventory management.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Word; advanced Excel skills a plus.
- Experience with PLEX, SAP, Oracle, or other ERP systems required.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly organized with excellent time-management skills and the ability to prioritize effectively.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail.
- Able to work independently, collaboratively, and under tight deadlines.
- Flexible, adaptable, and capable of taking on new or challenging tasks with limited guidance.
- Comfortable working with team members at all levels of the organization
Who We Are
Motus Integrated Technologies is a dynamic, half-billion-dollar global leader in manufacturing high-quality headliners and interior trim solution products for the automotive industry. Headquartered in Holland, Michigan, Motus operates advanced manufacturing facilities across North America (U.S. and Mexico) and maintains a global presence with 12 locations. Motus is part of the Atlas Holdings portfolio, an industrial holding company based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Motus offers a vibrant working environment where innovation and forward-thinking are at the forefront of what we do. If you are eager to contribute to our legacy and drive meaningful change, we would love to hear from you. Motus is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Notice to Agency and Search Firm Representatives: Please note that Motus is not accepting unsolicited resumes from agencies/search firms for this role. Resumes submitted to a Motus Team Member by a third-party agency without a valid written & signed search agreement between Motus and said third-party agency, will become sole property of Motus. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral.