Cost Accountant

HireReady Partners; California; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life and AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays

Job summary

HireReady Partners is seeking a cost accounting professional to manage manufacturing cost accounting, inventory controls, and financial reporting. You will collaborate with operations to optimize profitability and efficiency.

Responsibilities include maintaining standard and job costs, analyzing variances, reconciling inventory and WIP, and supporting month-end close with accurate reporting. You will also develop dashboards to monitor costs and margins and participate in budgeting and pricing

Qualifications

• Experience with standard costs, job costs, BOMs, labor rates, and overhead.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and analyze standard costs, job costs, BOMs, labor rates, and manufacturing overhead.
• Investigate cost variances and recommend improvements.
• Reconcile inventory, WIP, and manufacturingGL accounts.
• Monitor inventory valuation, scrap, obsolescence, and cycle counts.
• Support month-end close with journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and reporting.
• Analyze gross margins, job profitability, and variances.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to improve costing and efficiency.
• Assist budgeting, forecasting, product costing, and pricing decisions.
• Develop reports and dashboards to track costs, margins, and KPIs.
• Support inventory audits and internal controls.

Skills

Manufacturing cost accounting

Continuous improvement

Financial reporting

Cost analysis

Budgeting

Operations collaboration

BOMs

Accruals

Insurance

Job description

This role is responsible for managing manufacturing cost accounting, inventory controls, financial reporting, and cost analysis while partnering with operations to improve profitability and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and analyze standard costs, job costs, bills of materials (BOMs), labor rates, and manufacturing overhead.
• Investigate material, labor, freight, and overhead cost variances and recommend improvements.
• Reconcile inventory, work-in-process (WIP), and manufacturing-related general ledger accounts.
• Monitor inventory valuation, scrap, obsolete inventory, and cycle-count adjustments.
• Support month-end close, including journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.
• Analyze gross margins, job profitability, purchase price variances, and manufacturing performance.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to improve costing accuracy and manufacturing efficiency.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, product costing, and pricing decisions.
• Develop reports and dashboards to track costs, margins, and key performance indicators.
• Support inventory audits, internal controls, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution
• Paid vacation, sick time, and holidays

Skills: manufacturing,continuous improvement,reporting,adjustments,budgeting,operations,boms,accruals,insurance,financial reporting