Senior Cost Accountant
About The Position
HydroPoint, a smart irrigation company, is seeking a senior cost accountant to ensure the integrity of price, cost, and margin across its hardware, subscription, and service categories. This role is crucial during a period of intense financial scrutiny, requiring a focus on strengthening cost and margin reporting rigor. It's a hands-on position demanding high ownership, where the individual will analyze numbers, identify variances and anomalies, and implement control, policy, and process improvements. Reporting directly to the CFO, this role offers significant visibility and the potential for conversion to a permanent position.
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive cost/manufacturing accounting experience, including a senior or lead role.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Deep standard and actual costing experience in a manufacturing + inventory environment, with command of BOMs, routings, PPV, absorption, and inventory valuation (ASC 330).
- Experience spanning hardware, subscription/SaaS, and services revenue and cost.
- Proven ability to develop and justify allocation methodologies for shared and indirect costs across products and revenue types.
- Knowledge of US GAAP, including revenue recognition (ASC 606), inventory (ASC 330), and software cost capitalization (ASC 350-40, 985-20).
- Proficiency with NetSuite (ideally ARM/Revenue Cloud) and a manufacturing/inventory ERP (e.g., MISys or comparable).
- Advanced Excel modeling skills.
- Demonstrated variance, margin, and anomaly analysis with a history of translating findings into control, policy, and process change.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a diligence, audit, quality-of-earnings, or transaction-readiness environment.
- Familiarity with SaaS/IoT unit economics (ARR, churn, CAC/LTV, cost-to-serve).
- Experience with ERP migration or chart-of-accounts/SKU taxonomy redesign.
Responsibilities
- Analyze price, cost, and margin performance across hardware, subscription, and service categories, and build/maintain margin decomposition by product line and revenue type.
- Identify variances and anomalies against budget, forecast, standard cost, and prior periods, determining root causes and quantifying P&L impact.
- Recommend and assist in implementing improvements to controls, policies, and processes to mitigate, correct, and prevent unfavorable outcomes.
- Establish and maintain standard costs, BOMs, and inventory valuation; investigate absorption, purchase price variance, and capitalized variances, and reconcile to the GL.
- Design, document, and defend appropriate allocation methods for shared and indirect costs across product lines and revenue categories.
- Monitor SaaS unit economics, including ASPs, renewal and discount impact, deferred revenue, and services cost-to-serve, flagging margin erosion early.
- Partner with FP&A, revenue accounting, operations, and sales to pressure-test assumptions and improve forecast accuracy.
- Produce clear analysis and recommendations for the CFO and leadership that withstand audit and third-party diligence.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
