Senior Accountant

Vaco by Highspring; Johnston (RI); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco seeks a Senior Accountant to join its Finance team and drive product costing, variance analysis, work order costing, and inventory valuation in a manufacturing setting. You will partner with Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain to improve cost data and drive corrective actions.

Responsibilities include month-end close for cost transactions, inventory reconciliation, and maintaining standard costing accuracy while supporting audits and financial reviews.

Qualifications

• Requires cost accounting experience in a manufacturing/construction setting.
• Strong understanding of standard costing and inventory accounting.
• Advanced Excel skills with large datasets and reconciliations.
• Experience supporting audits and financial reviews.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review month-end journal entries for all cost transactions.
• Reconcile inventory balance sheet accounts and maintain schedules.
• Maintain and analyze product costing including labor, overhead, and machine rates.
• Analyze variances (material, labor, overhead, purchase price, production) and propose solutions.
• Ensure accurate work and production costing.
• Monitor inventory valuation, WIP, and manufacturing absorption accounts for accuracy.
• Serve as a finance resource for costing, inventory, and production in ERP system.
• Review cost structures, inventory transactions, and postings for accurate reporting.
• Ensure manufacturing costs are reflected in financial reporting.
• Support internal and external audits.

Skills

Cost accounting

Manufacturing

Excel analysis

Audit support

Data scrutiny

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Senior Accountant

Our client is seeking a Senior Accountant to join its Finance team and play a critical role in managing, analyzing, and improving product and inventory costing within a manufacturing environment. This position is responsible for product costing, variance analysis, work order costing, and inventory valuation accuracy while partnering closely with Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and review month-end journal entries related to all cost transactions.
• Reconcile inventory balance sheet accounts and maintain supporting schedules.
• Maintain and analyze product costing, including labor, overhead, and machine rates.
• Analyze manufacturing variances, including material, labor, overhead, purchase price, and production variances, propose solutions.
• Ensure accurate work and production costing.
• Monitor inventory valuation, WIP, and manufacturing absorption accounts to ensure accuracy.
• Serve as a key finance resource for costing, inventory, and production processes within the organization's ERP system.
• Review cost structures, inventory transactions, and financial postings to ensure accurate financial reporting.
• Ensure manufacturing costs are accurately reflected in financial reporting.
• Support internal and external audits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Three or more years of cost accounting experience within a construction/manufacturing environment.
• Strong understanding of standard costing, and inventory accounting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including analysis of large datasets and account reconciliations.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills with experience supporting audits and financial reviews.
• Ability to challenge data, identify trends, and drive corrective action

For residents of Ontario, Canada only: to the extent the position for employment is not with Highspring or not otherwise noted as vacant above, candidate should be informed that this role is to replace a presently employed person at Vaco by Highspring's client.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations; and
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).