Manufacturing Cost Accountant: Costing, Variance & Analysis

Pivotal Solutions; Washington (NC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Pivotal Solutions is seeking a Cost Accountant to manage standard costing, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variance analysis for our growing operation. You will partner with Controller, Operations, and Supply Chain to model costs and drive accuracy on production data.

The role combines accounting with data analysis on the factory floor, supporting month-end closes and cost reporting while helping establish stronger cost-accounting processes across the plant.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required.
• 3+ years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of standard costing, BOM/routing structures, inventory valuation, and variance analysis.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and variance modeling.
• Comfortable spending time on the manufacturing floor to understand production processes firsthand.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain standard costs for raw materials, labor, and manufacturing overhead.
• Analyze purchase price, labor efficiency, and manufacturing overhead variances.
• Maintain accurate costing across product lines and models.
• Prepare monthly cost-accounting reports and gross-margin analysis.

Skills

Cost accounting

Standard costing

BOM structures

Routing structures

Inventory valuation

Variance analysis

Excel advanced

Manufacturing floor

ERP/ERP systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Tools

Epicor ERP

Job description

Pivotal Solutions is seeking a Cost Accountant to manage standard costing, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variance analysis for our growing operation. You will partner with Controller, Operations, and Supply Chain to model costs and drive accuracy on production data.

The role combines accounting with data analysis on the factory floor, supporting month-end closes and cost reporting while helping establish stronger cost-accounting processes across the plant.