Manufacturing Cost Accountant - Standard & Job Costing

MaxIT Consulting - Max Corporate Group; California; On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

MaxIT Consulting – Max Corporate Group is seeking a Cost Accountant to join a manufacturing company in City of Industry, CA. This on-site role manages standard and job costs, BOMs, and inventory controls, partnering with Operations and Engineering to improve profitability and efficiency.

The position emphasizes end-to-end cost accounting, month-end close, and ongoing cost analysis to impact margins and pricing decisions. California manufacturing experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of standard costing, job costing, inventory accounting, overhead absorption, variance analysis and month-end close.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups and data analysis.
• Experience working with manufacturing ERP systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and analyze standard costs, job costs, bills of materials (BOMs), labor rates and manufacturing overhead.
• Investigate material, labor, freight and overhead cost variances and recommend improvements.
• Reconcile inventory, work-in-process (WIP) and manufacturing-related general ledger accounts.
• Monitor inventory valuation, scrap, obsolete inventory and cycle-count adjustments.
• Support month-end close: journal entries, reconciliations, accruals and financial reporting.
• Analyze gross margins, job profitability, purchase price variances and manufacturing performance.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to improve costing accuracy and manufacturing efficiency.
• Assist with budgeting, forecasting, product costing and pricing decisions.
• Develop reports and dashboards to track costs, margins and key performance indicators.
• Support inventory audits, internal controls and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Standard costing

Job costing

BOMs

Variance analysis

Inventory accounting

Month-end close

MS Excel

ERP systems

Cost analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Manufacturing ERP systems

Job description

MaxIT Consulting – Max Corporate Group is seeking a Cost Accountant to join a manufacturing company in City of Industry, CA. This on-site role manages standard and job costs, BOMs, and inventory controls, partnering with Operations and Engineering to improve profitability and efficiency.

The position emphasizes end-to-end cost accounting, month-end close, and ongoing cost analysis to impact margins and pricing decisions. California manufacturing experience is preferred.