Remote Senior Cost Accountant - Costing & Profitability

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC; Des Plaines (IL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work environment

Job summary

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to lead a manufacturing costing project focused on cost visibility, profitability analysis, and standard costing across multiple locations. The role is hands-on, data-driven, and aimed at delivering practical financial insights that influence business decisions.

The ideal candidate has strong manufacturing cost accounting experience, excels in Excel, and can manage complex data analyses.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of manufacturing cost accounting experience.
• Strong knowledge of standard costing, BOMs, routings, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variances.
• Experience developing budget-based cost rates and analyzing budget-to-actual results.
• Advanced Excel skills including Pivot Tables, lookups, reconciliations, and large dataset analysis.
• Ability to work independently, investigate data issues, and communicate findings clearly.

Responsibilities

• Develop budget-based labor and overhead rates using production volumes, capacity, and allocation methodologies.
• Analyze actual manufacturing costs against budget and identify cost drivers.
• Review and evaluate standard cost components, including labor, materials, routings, and overhead.
• Analyze labor, purchase price, and overhead variances and provide recommendations.
• Assess freight-in and tariff allocations at the SKU and inventory level.
• Reconcile costing analyses to inventory records and the general ledger.
• Evaluate current costing practices and recommend process improvements.
• Create reusable reporting tools, schedules, and documentation for ongoing use.

Skills

Cost accounting

Standard costing

BOMs

Routings

Inventory valuation

Manufacturing variances

Excel (Pivot tables)

Communication

Independent work

Tools

Plex ERP

Power Query

Job description

Creative Financial Staffing, LLC is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to lead a manufacturing costing project focused on cost visibility, profitability analysis, and standard costing across multiple locations. The role is hands-on, data-driven, and aimed at delivering practical financial insights that influence business decisions.

The ideal candidate has strong manufacturing cost accounting experience, excels in Excel, and can manage complex data analyses.