On-Site Manufacturing Cost Accountant: Margin & Inventory

VoltForce; California; On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company contribution

Paid holidays and vacation

Job summary

VoltForce, an established engineering and manufacturing company, is seeking a Cost Accountant to own product and job costing, strengthen inventory controls, and convert operating activity into clear financial insight. You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Sales, and Finance to improve cost visibility and protect margins across sites.

The role requires strong accounting discipline with a practical manufacturing background.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 3+ years of accounting experience with exposure to cost accounting in manufacturing.
• Working knowledge of standard costing, job costing, inventory accounting, overhead absorption, variance analysis, and month-end close.
• Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, data analysis, and reconciling large data sets.
• Trace a transaction from source document through the ERP subledger to the general ledger.
• Clear attention to detail, sound judgment, and ability to manage priorities and meet close deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication with both financial and operational teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and validate standard costs, cost rolls, bills of material, routings, labor rates, burden rates, and overhead assumptions in the ERP.
• Analyze actual versus standard material, labor, burden, subcontract, freight, tariff, and other landed-cost variances; identify root causes and corrective actions.
• Review job performance, estimated-at-completion costs, job close activity, and cost exceptions to ensure timely and accurate financial recognition.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations to validate manufacturing assumptions, labor standards, scrap factors, yields, cycle times, and routing accuracy.
• Support cost estimates and financial review of new products, engineering changes, sourcing decisions, make-versus-buy analyses, and customer quotations.
• Reconcile inventory, work-in-process, accrued receipts, subcontract activity, purchase price variance, and related manufacturing accounts to the general ledger.
• Monitor inventory valuation, negative inventory, unissued material, backflush, obsolete and excess inventory, scrap and cycle-count adjustments.
• Participate in physical inventories and cycle-count programs, including planning, control testing, variance investigation, and reporting.
• Ensure transactions are recorded in accordance with U.S. GAAP and company policy, including capitalization of direct labor and manufacturing overhead into inventory.
• Strengthen controls over item setup, cost changes, inventory adjustments, job completion, job closing, and manufacturing-related journal entries.

Skills

Excel

Attention to detail

Communication

ERP navigation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field

Tools

Epicor Kinetic

Power BI

SQL

Job description

VoltForce, an established engineering and manufacturing company, is seeking a Cost Accountant to own product and job costing, strengthen inventory controls, and convert operating activity into clear financial insight. You will partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Sales, and Finance to improve cost visibility and protect margins across sites.

The role requires strong accounting discipline with a practical manufacturing background.