Senior Cost Accountant-

Professional Recruiting Consultants, Inc.; Mars (PA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Professional Recruiting Consultants, Inc. is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to apply cost accounting expertise under GAAP, maintaining product cost data for informed management decisions. Responsibilities include routine AP/AR/GL tasks and analyses on daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly cycles.

The ideal candidate will specialize in cost accounting and support budgeting, forecasting, and year-end audits, ensuring accurate cost information across operations.

Qualifications

• Strong cost accounting knowledge and GAAP compliance.
• Experience with standard costing, variance analysis, and cost controls.
• Ability to perform data analysis and provide actionable cost insights.

Responsibilities

• Maintain accurate cost accounting for products and inventory valuation; set standard costs for manufactured products.
• Analyze monthly manufacturing costs, variances, and absorption.
• Process daily AP invoices with cost coding and look for cost savings.
• Process daily sales invoices and AR cash collections.
• Perform monthly GL account reconciliations for accruals, prepaids, and bank accounts.
• Assist in monthly closing, including journal entries and prepaids.
• Assist budgeting and forecasting; support year-end financial audit.

Skills

Manufacturing cost accounting

SAP

Job description

Senior Cost Accountant-

Must have Manufacturing cost + SAP $95,000.00-$110,000.00

We are seeking a Senior Cost Accountant who will be responsible for applying strong cost accounting knowledge in compliance with generally accepted accounting principles to keep company management informed with accurate product cost information used in decision making. Additional responsibilities include routine Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger functions and analyses performed on a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis.

The ideal candidate will be able to successfully perform a variety of accounting functions while specializing in cost accounting.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for maintaining accurate Cost Accounting for products, inventory valuation and cost analyses. Setting standard costs for manufactured products.


• Monthly analysis of manufacturing costs, variances, and absorption.


• Daily processing of Accounts Payable invoices including GL account coding, reviewing for cost savings, and filing electronically.


• Daily processing of Sales invoices (electronic).


• Daily processing of AR cash collections/applications.


• Monthly GL account reconciliations for accruals, prepaids, bank accounts, etc.


• Assist in the monthly closing function including journal entry preparation.


• Assist in the budgeting and forecasting process.


• Assist in preparing data for year-end financial audit.


• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.