Senior Cost Accountant

THIS ROLE IS FULLY ON-SITE IN MACost Accounting & Manufacturing Finance

• Maintain cost accounting systems, cost controls, and data integrity within the manufacturing operation.
• Apply cost accounting principles to operational planning, reporting, analysis, and decision support.
• Coordinate and analyze manufacturing operations, including product costing, labor reporting, inventory adjustments, and material usage variance analysis.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of cost flows, including labor, overhead allocation, material costs, and machine-hour drivers.

Inventory Management & Controls

• Lead physical inventory planning, execution, reconciliation, and analysis activities.
• Reconcile financial inventory records to perpetual inventory records on a monthly basis.
• Monitor inventory levels, reserves, excess and obsolete inventory, slow-moving inventory, scrap activity, and intercompany transfers.
• Monitor cycle count compliance and reporting while supporting improvements in inventory controls.
• Oversee annual inventory and fixed asset inventory processes.

Standard Costing & Analysis

• Review bills of materials (BOMs), routings, overhead rates, and cost drivers to ensure accurate product costing.
• Manage standard cost updates, material standard costs, assembly cost rollups, and inventory valuation adjustments.
• Analyze cost changes, margin impacts, labor utilization, efficiency metrics, purchase price variances, and material usage variances.
• Conduct make-versus-buy analysis and support annual standard cost updates.
• Review and close manufacturing work orders.

Reporting, Process Improvement & Business Partnership

• Develop reports, dashboards, metrics, and operational analytics to support business decisions. ,
• Identify and implement process improvements that increase accuracy, efficiency, and effectiveness within the cost accounting function. ,
• Create and maintain documentation for cost accounting processes, internal controls, and standard operating procedures.
• Partner closely with manufacturing personnel, engineering, production planning, purchasing, and other cross-functional teams.
• Support internal and external audits and maintain compliance with internal control and SOX requirements.
• Participate in ad hoc analyses, special projects, and operational improvement initiatives.

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.