Cost Accountant – Manufacturing Cost & Variance Expert

Paycom - ATS; Humble (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CDI Products, a Michelin Group Company, is seeking a Cost Accountant to maintain standard costs, perform inventory valuation, and analyze manufacturing variances to support financial reporting and decision-making.

You will collaborate with Accounting, Operations, and Supply Chain to ensure accurate cost data, participate in month-end close, and maintain internal controls over cost accounting processes in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years cost accounting in a manufacturing or distribution environment.
• Experience with ERP systems; Oracle preferred.
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables and financial data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and analyze standard costs for materials, labor, and overhead.
• Review BOMs, routings, labor rates, and overhead rates with Engineering.
• Analyze actual vs. standard costs and investigate variances.
• Prepare and analyze purchase price, material usage, labor, overhead variances.
• Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to identify drivers of unfavorable variances.
• Support month-end close and inventory accounting activities.
• Assist with forecasting and budgeting for manufacturing costs, inventory, and COGS.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Time management

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Oracle

Microsoft Excel

Pivot Tables

Lookup functions

Job description

CDI Products, a Michelin Group Company, is seeking a Cost Accountant to maintain standard costs, perform inventory valuation, and analyze manufacturing variances to support financial reporting and decision-making.

You will collaborate with Accounting, Operations, and Supply Chain to ensure accurate cost data, participate in month-end close, and maintain internal controls over cost accounting processes in a manufacturing environment.