Senior Cost Accounting Manager

Cerebras Systems•Sunnyvale, CA

About The Position

The Senior Cost Accounting Manager will thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment supporting both Finance and Operations. This role requires excellent communication skills, strong computational and analytical ability, and the capacity to quickly derive insights from high volume manufacturing and inventory-related transactions. The ideal candidate is proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable owning end-to-end cost accounting processes. This is a high visibility role working closely with leaders in Supply Chain, Procurement and Finance.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
CPA or CMA required with knowledge of GAAP, inventory accounting, costing methodologies, and fixed assets.
7+ years of progressive cost accounting experience in manufacturing, hardware, or infrastructure-intensive environments.
Strong experience with NetSuite and advanced Excel skills.
Thrives in fast-paced, high growth, high-ambiguity environments.
Ability to work with high volumes of unstructured data and create appropriate data structures to provide insights
Able to think systematically and optimize processes.
Able to ramp quickly, identify gaps, and take ownership.
Hands-on, detail-oriented, and execution-focused.
Strong cross-functional communicator with sound judgment.

Nice To Haves

Up to 3 years of Big 4 early career experience will be viewed favorably.

Responsibilities

Cost Capitalization & Allocations Assess, capitalize, and allocate inventory rebates.
Evaluate and allocate wafer manufacturing yield losses.
Capitalize operational costs and manufacturing overhead, ensuring accurate classification for variance analysis.
Book monthly facilities allocations.
Accrue and capitalize freight and tariff costs monthly.
Inventory Accounting & Reconciliations Prepare monthly inventory reconciliations and post all related journal entries.
Record and reconcile inventory-in-transit accruals.
Ensure proper inventory classification across Raw Materials (RM), Work-in-Process (WIP), and Finished Goods (FG).
Coordinate physical inventory counts with Operations and external auditors.
Optimize and drive efficiency and accuracy in the accounting close process for inventory and other manufactured assets Manufacturing & COGS Analysis Track and analyze FG movements to ensure correct accounting for COGS, RMAs, RMA replacements, and internal deployments to PPE.
Review COGS transactions for completeness and accuracy.
Perform gross margin flux analysis and partner with Operations to investigate key drivers.
Audit & Cross-Functional Support Support internal and external audit requests related to inventory and cost accounting.
Collaborate with Operations to validate inventory movements, yields, and system accuracy.
Support inventory count validations working cross functionally with operations.