Manufacturing Cost Accountant: Profitability & Efficiency

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC; Warrendale (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC is seeking a Cost Accountant in Warrendale, PA to focus on standard costs, inventory valuation, and product costing while partnering with Operations and other departments.

The role emphasizes ERP costing, month-end close, KPI development, and collaboration with Finance, Manufacturing, and Engineering to drive profitability and cost reduction in a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of cost accounting experience in manufacturing.
• Strong costing, inventory, variances, and financial controls.
• Experience with SAP in manufacturing; SAP S/4HANA preferred.
• SAP GUI experience highly desirable.
• Advanced Excel skills, PivotTables, formulas, and data analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work with Finance, Operations, Plant, Supply Chain, and Engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and analyze standard costs, BOMs, routings, and product cost structures.
• Support new product costing, pricing, profitability analysis, and ERP costing.
• Analyze material, labor, overhead, scrap, yield, and production variances and identify root causes.
• Manage inventory valuation, reserves, reconciliations, cycle counts, and physical inventory processes.
• Support month-end close, including journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and variance analysis.
• Develop and monitor manufacturing KPIs and provide financial analysis to Operations and Finance leadership.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and budget-to-actual analysis.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Finance on cost reduction and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop financial models and analysis to support operational decisions, including sourcing, productivity, and capital investments.
• Track and report cost savings and provide meaningful financial insights to leadership.
• Prepare and maintain cost accounting reports, dashboards, and other analyses.
• Support ERP costing functionality, system enhancements, internal controls, and GAAP compliance.

Skills

Cost accounting

SAP

Excel

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

GAAP knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP GUI

Job description

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC is seeking a Cost Accountant in Warrendale, PA to focus on standard costs, inventory valuation, and product costing while partnering with Operations and other departments.

The role emphasizes ERP costing, month-end close, KPI development, and collaboration with Finance, Manufacturing, and Engineering to drive profitability and cost reduction in a manufacturing environment.