Senior Cost Accountant

INSPYR Solutions•Rockwall, TX

About The Position

The Cost Accountant is responsible for developing, reviewing, and controlling standard costs while analyzing manufacturing variances and their impact on the P&L. This position supports the monthly financial close process, inventory accounting, cost analysis, and financial reporting within a manufacturing environment. Responsibilities include reconciling raw materials, work-in-process (WIP), and finished goods inventory; calculating inventory turns and obsolescence; preparing month-end journal entries; reconciling accounts; reviewing monthly financials; and supporting effective gross margin management.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
2–5 years of hands-on cost accounting experience, including inventory control experience within a manufacturing environment.
Strong knowledge of manufacturing BOMs, routers, WIP, and bottom-up standard cost creation.
Strong knowledge of inventory management within a manufacturing environment.
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables and macros.
Strong analytical, organizational, and planning skills.
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective professional relationships across multiple levels of an organization.
Strong attention to detail and ability to organize financial information logically and accurately.

Nice To Haves

Oracle ERP experience within a manufacturing environment is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Update, monitor, and analyze the Cycle Count Program and assist with inventory audits.
Execute monthly scrap reporting and help ensure a high degree of inventory accuracy through monitoring of the perpetual inventory system.
Review and recommend potential write-offs of obsolete and damaged inventory and ensure accurate valuation of goods on hand.
Assist in maintaining standard cost control systems and procedures.
Maintain processes for creating and updating standard costs, including labor and overhead rate calculations.
Monitor engineering change notifications and implement approved changes to Bills of Material (BOMs).
Analyze and report manufacturing variances.
Reconcile and analyze general ledger accounts.
Review and analyze monthly manufacturing expenses.
Support month-end close activities.
Perform other duties as required.