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Senior Cost Accountant – Manufacturing
$85,000–$115,000 Annually | Pittsboro, IN
We are seeking an experienced Senior Cost Accountant to support a new, advanced manufacturing operation in Pittsboro, Indiana. This position will play a key role in developing and maintaining product-costing, inventory-control, and financial-reporting processes as the facility continues to grow.
The ideal candidate has strong, hands-on manufacturing cost-accounting experience and is comfortable partnering with production, supply-chain, engineering, and plant leadership teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and audit standard costs for manufactured products, including materials, labor, and overhead
- Analyze purchase-price, labor-efficiency, and overhead variances
- Prepare cost and operational reports for plant and finance leadership
- Manage inventory valuation, reconciliation, cycle counts, and physical inventories
- Review Bills of Materials and complete accurate cost rollups
- Support month-end and year-end close, including journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations
- Analyze cost of goods sold, product margins, and manufacturing performance
- Assist with budgeting, forecasting, pricing, and cost-reduction initiatives
- Partner with production, engineering, and supply-chain teams to identify cost drivers
- Help establish scalable cost-accounting procedures and internal controls
- Support internal and external audit requests involving inventory and manufacturing costs
- Ensure compliance with GAAP and company accounting standards
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 4–7 years of progressive accounting experience
- At least 3 years of direct cost-accounting experience within a manufacturing environment
- Strong knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, variance analysis, and Bills of Materials
- Experience supporting month-end close and preparing account reconciliations
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, SUMIFS, XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, and financial modeling
- Experience working with an ERP system such as SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, Workday, or a similar platform
- Strong understanding of GAAP and manufacturing cost-accounting principles
Preferred Experience
- Engineer-to-Order, custom-fabrication, or complex manufacturing experience
- Experience developing cost-accounting processes for a new or rapidly growing facility
- Electrical, industrial, construction-related, or modular manufacturing experience
- Power BI or other financial-reporting and data-visualization experience
- CMA or CPA certification, or progress toward certification
Ideal Candidate
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Highly accurate and detail-oriented
- Comfortable working in a growing environment with evolving processes
- Able to communicate financial information clearly to operational leaders
- Capable of working independently while keeping leadership informed
- Interested in taking ownership of processes and helping shape a new operation
Pay: $85,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year
Application Question(s):
- How many years of cost accounting experience do you have specifically within a manufacturing environment?
Work Location: In person
Salary : $85,000 - $115,000