Senior Cost Accountant
About The Position
The Senior Cost Accountant will lead standard costing processes across multiple manufacturing facilities, ensuring consistent and accurate labor, material, and overhead cost roll-ups. The role supports corporate cost accounting initiatives, analyzes and reports manufacturing variances, and partners with plant finance and operations teams on inventory valuation and cycle counts. It also consolidates cost data for corporate reporting, identifies cost-reduction and process-improvement opportunities through data analysis and benchmarking, and supports internal and external audits with cost accounting documentation. Travel to manufacturing sites may be required, and the position includes opportunities to assist with ad hoc analysis and projects. This is a permanent hybrid position based in Reading, Pennsylvania, with three days in the office and two days remote. Employees may choose their work-from-home days. The stated annual pay range is $85,000–$100,000; individual compensation depends on qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other job-related factors.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance.
- At least 2 years of standard costing experience.
- At least 2 years of cost analysis experience.
- At least 2 years of experience managing and tracking inventory.
- Experience with standard cost accounting.
- Proficiency in inventory management.
- Strong cost analysis skills, including labor, overhead, and absorption.
- Ability to create pivot tables, Vlookups, and index match in Excel.
- Experience with large-scale ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Infor, SyteLine, Workday, SAGE, or Microsoft Dynamics.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with SyteLine ERP system.
- Proficiency in Power BI.
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA) certification.
- Ability to create macros in Excel.
Responsibilities
- Lead standard costing processes across multiple manufacturing facilities.
- Ensure consistency and accuracy in labor, material, and overhead cost roll-ups.
- Support corporate cost accounting initiatives.
- Analyze and report manufacturing variances.
- Partner with plant finance and operations teams on inventory valuation and cycle counts.
- Consolidate cost data for corporate reporting.
- Identify cost-reduction and process-improvement opportunities through data analysis and benchmarking.
- Support internal and external audits with cost accounting documentation.
- Travel to manufacturing sites as needed.
- Assist with ad hoc analysis and projects.
Benefits
- Company benefits are mentioned, but specific benefits are not listed.
- A PTO plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
