Cost Accountant

Company Overview:

TydenBrooks (TydenBrooks Website) is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier and more productive. With a passionate workforce, global footprint and world-class engineering and manufacturing capabilities, we are driving innovation and developing solutions across a broad spectrum of applications in the safety and security seal industry. We are committed to maintaining an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust in which our leaders exhibit a strong bias for action.

The Company began in 1873 and has rapidly grown into a global leader in the safety and security seal industry. TydenBrooks is the largest seals business in the world. With over 500 employees, the Company serves its customers from a global footprint of 5 facilities in North America, Europe, and Asia. TydenBrooks operates across a wide variety of attractive end markets and produces mission-critical products with high replacement rates.

TydenBrooks is an affiliate of Madison Industries, (Madison Website), one of the largest and most successful privately held companies in the world. Madison builds entrepreneurially driven, branded market leaders that are committed to making the world safer, healthier and more productive by creating innovative solutions that deliver outstanding customer value. The team at Madison is committed to building something truly remarkable that long outlasts them while coaching others to reach their highest potential.

TydenBrooks brings our customers 150 years of experience in the manufacturing of security seals and has consistently exhibited market leadership through innovation, research, quality, design and manufacturing on a global basis. TydenBrooks is part of the Madison Safety Vertical.

Position Summary:

The Cost Accountant provides support to our industrial seal and security product manufacturing operations. This role is integral to ensuring accurate costing, reliable inventory management, and clear financial visibility across the production environment. The ideal candidate will bring strong manufacturing and cost accounting expertise, thrive in a collaborative setting, and demonstrate high integrity and intellectual curiosity in driving continuous improvement.

Responsibilities:

Costing & Financial Analysis

• Maintain and update product cost standards, BOMs, and routings.
• Perform detailed cost analyses, including material, labor, and overhead.
• Analyze and report on manufacturing variances; provide actionable insights to resolve issues.
• Develop and maintain costing models to support pricing decisions and margin analysis.

Inventory & Operations Support

• Partner closely with Operations, Production, Supply Chain, and Quality teams to ensure accurate inventory valuation.
• Lead root cause analysis of inventory discrepancies and standard cost variances.
• Support cycle counts, physical inventory processes, and ongoing inventory controls.
• Monitor scrap, rework, and other manufacturing performance metrics, identifying trends and improvement opportunities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Communicate complex financial information clearly and effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Collaborate with Operations leadership to drive process improvements and cost-saving initiatives.
• Influence decision-making through data-driven insights and strong relationship building.

Integrity & Leadership

• Lead with influence, fostering collaboration and accountability without direct authority.
• Uphold a high standard of ethical behavior in all financial practices.
• Demonstrate natural curiosity, digging into issues with thoroughness and perseverance to determine true root causes.

Competencies

• High integrity and professionalism.
• Strong analytical mindset with exceptional attention to detail.
• Naturally curious with a passion for understanding the “why” behind results.
• Influential leadership style that inspires trust and drives change.
• Commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required; CPA or CMA is a plus.
• 5 years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment required.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, standard costing, and inventory accounting.
• Proficiency in ERP/MRP systems; experience with Epicor preferred.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis skills.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment.

TydenBrooks is on a mission to make the world safer, healthier, and more productive by securing the world. We are committed to an entrepreneurial culture built on a foundation of trust and a strong bias for action. The team at Tyden Brooks is committed to building something truly remarkable that long outlasts us while coaching others to reach their highest potential.

Tyden Brooks is part of the Madison Safety platform which has built its reputation by fostering three key attributes: Trust, Bias for Action, Entrepreneurial.

TydenBrooks Values

Trust – Honesty and transparency are essential to the way we do business. We work with and build management teams we believe in and don’t add arrogancy, complacency or bureaucracy to the mix. We also believe in the power of the team and how critical trust is in that relationship. We work as hard for the person on our left and the person on our right as we do for ourselves. Consequently, our teams operate at the highest level of engagement and are inspired by our mission and their leaders.

Trust is:

• Open, honest, and transparent.
• Ethics and integrity are assumed, and anything less is not tolerated.
• We meet all our commitments.
• We are a team, and we can rely on each other.
• We are what we do, and we do what we say

Trust isn’t:

• An environment in which we have no oversight, approvals or control. Trust is a cultural attribute, not a management method.
• A set of rules and policies. Trust is earned, not legislated.

Bias for Action – Unless you continually work, evolve and innovate, you will learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has! Consequently, we lean forward and challenge the status quo. And if there is an opportunity for us to make the world safer, healthier or more productive, we move quickly. In fact, we close our acquisitions in less than 30 days, providing minimal disruption to the companies with which we partner.

Bias for Action is:

• Bold and ambitious. We inject speed and velocity into our processes.
• We are not victims of things which we cannot control. We control outcomes through our own actions.
• We act with imperfect information; confident in our ability to adjust as necessary.
• We embrace change and see it as an opportunity to improve.

Bias for Action isn’t:

• Reckless decision making for the sake of speed.
• Ready, shoot, aim.
• An excuse for making poor decisions.

Entrepreneurial – Madison Industries is an operating company owned by the team that runs it. Madison has over 900 owner leaders in its ecosystem. The company is not publicly traded, so no quarterly earnings reports. It is not private equity, so no artificial 3-5 year timelines, which means you can build your company for the long term. Businesses are run locally by the entrepreneurial teams who have an 'owner's mindset' and are closest to the customer, product and the team best positioned to make decisions. Therefore, we partner and not acquire; consequently, the name stays on the door and the management team remains in place. This incredible ecosystem of companies will remain a part of the Madison family long after we are gone, ensuring that our companies can continue their missions.

Entrepreneurial is:

• We are self-reliant. We are gritty and tenacious.
• We have passion and perseverance for our long-term goals
• We are all salespeople at heart – and in our defined roles. 100% of our team members have the responsibility to be salespeople and to focus on customers.
• We are optimistic and believe we will be successful.
• We are adaptable and not set in our ways. We learn, grow and find ways to reinvent ourselves as circumstances change.
• We are ambitious. We want to great things and have great impact on the world.
• An attitude and approach to thinking that actively seeks out change, rather than waiting to adapt to change. It’s a mindset that embraces critical questioning, innovation, service and continuous improvement.
• Creativity and unwillingness to accept that there is not a better way. Constantly questioning. Constantly striving for improvement.
• Healthy paranoia – that leads to continuous innovation, improvement, and the like.
• Anticipatory and proactive – we constantly strive to be ahead of the curve.
• Recognition that we live in an "and" world, not an "or" world – our business requires us to balance multiple priorities with ambiguity and risk. We embrace this paradox and create operating constructs that allow us to make good decisions in that reality.

Entrepreneurial isn’t:

• A sense of entitlement.
• A free pass to do whatever you want because you are acting like an "owner".
• An operating construct that has no oversight, no central authority and no hierarchy.
• A product of the kinds of businesses or sizes of companies from which we came.