Inventory & Cost Accountant – SAP (Manufacturing)

Oldcastle Infrastructure; Village of Endicott (NY); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base pay

Medical, dental and disability cover

Group retirement savings program

Wellness programs

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH company, seeks an Inventory & Cost Accountant for the Water Transmission business. The role owns inventory accounting across plants and helps build an SAP-based cost framework in a continuous-flow environment.

You will partner with plant ops, supply chain, and finance to maintain variances, standard costs, and margin visibility, with travel to sites as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 3+ years of cost or inventory accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Working knowledge of standard costing, inventory valuation, and variance analysis under US GAAP.
• Hands-on experience with SAP (CO-PC, MM, and PP modules preferred) or a comparable ERP system.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, HFM) a plus.
• Experience in continuous-flow or process manufacturing (PVC pipe, plastics, metals, paper, etc.) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own monthly inventory accounting for raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods, including reconciliation of the SAP inventory subledger to the general ledger.
• Coordinate physical inventory counts and cycle count programs with plant teams; investigate count variances and record adjustments.
• Prepare inventory reserve analyses, including excess and obsolete and lower of cost or net realizable value, to support balance sheet accuracy.
• Monitor inventory valuation, aging, and turns, and flag slow-moving or at-risk inventory to operations and supply chain.
• Maintain standard costs in SAP, including bills of material, routings, and activity rates, and support the annual standard cost roll and inventory revaluation.
• Prepare monthly manufacturing variance analysis (purchase price, material usage, labor, overhead absorption, yield, and scrap) and explain the operational drivers behind results.
• Perform process and production order settlement, WIP, and variance postings within SAP, and review cost estimates for accuracy.
• Analyze resin and raw material cost movements and quantify their impact on product cost and margin.
• Prepare journal entries, accruals, and account reconciliations for inventory, cost of goods sold, and manufacturing overhead within close deadlines.
• Maintain compliance with CRH financial controls and audit requirements, and support internal and external audit requests.
• Maintain the integrity of cost master data, including cost centers, material master costing views, and activity types.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual workarounds and spreadsheets, and support system-based solutions and SAP enhancements.
• Partner with plant managers, production, and supply chain to ensure production reporting, material consumption, and scrap are recorded accurately and on time.
• Provide cost analysis and modeling to support pricing, capital requests, process improvements, and margin management.
• Translate cost results into practical insights for non-finance stakeholders, building credibility through regular engagement and on-site presence.
• Support plant teams in adopting new costing processes and tools as the cost accounting framework is implemented.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Organization

Meeting deadlines

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

SAP ERP

Excel

Power BI

HFM

Job description

Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH company, seeks an Inventory & Cost Accountant for the Water Transmission business. The role owns inventory accounting across plants and helps build an SAP-based cost framework in a continuous-flow environment.

You will partner with plant ops, supply chain, and finance to maintain variances, standard costs, and margin visibility, with travel to sites as required.