Manufacturing Cost Accountant: SAP & Project Analytics

EAE USA; Tucker (GA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

EAE USA in Tucker, GA is seeking a Cost Accountant Specialist to own inventory accounting, standard costing, project cost tracking, and manufacturing financial reporting within our SAP environment. You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Project Management, and Finance to provide cost visibility and accurate reporting.

The role emphasizes maintaining cost data, analyzing variances, supporting month-end closes, and ensuring strong internal controls across BOMs, routings, and cost

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update standard costs for materials, labor, and overhead.
• Perform monthly cost variance analysis and communicate findings to the Accounting Team Lead.
• Maintain SAP costing-related master data, including material masters, BOMs, routings, work centers, and standard cost updates.
• Support the accuracy of BOMs and costing structures within SAP.
• Assist with monthly inventory reconciliations and investigate inventory variances.
• Support cycle counts, physical inventories, and inventory valuation.
• Review scrap, rework, freight, duty, and tariff allocations.
• Track project costs including materials, labor, freight, tariffs, and subcontractor expenses.
• Monitor project budgets versus actual costs and flag cost overruns.
• Prepare project profitability and gross margin reports.
• Partner with Project Managers and Operations to support project reporting and revenue recognition.
• Assist in monitoring WIP, overbillings, and unbilled receivables.
• Prepare COGS and gross margin reporting by product line and project.
• Support month-end and year-end close activities.
• Assist with budgets, forecasts, and manufacturing cost planning.
• Support audit requests and documentation.
• Identify and help implement process improvements to strengthen internal controls.

Skills

Cost accounting

Standard costing

Inventory accounting

Variance analysis

SAP ERP

Excel proficiency

GAAP knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance

Tools

SAP

Job description

EAE USA in Tucker, GA is seeking a Cost Accountant Specialist to own inventory accounting, standard costing, project cost tracking, and manufacturing financial reporting within our SAP environment. You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Project Management, and Finance to provide cost visibility and accurate reporting.

The role emphasizes maintaining cost data, analyzing variances, supporting month-end closes, and ensuring strong internal controls across BOMs, routings, and cost