Senior Cost Accountant

Vaco; Windham (CT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to join the Finance team in a manufacturing environment. The role focuses on product costing, variance analysis, work order costing, and inventory valuation accuracy while partnering with Operations, Engineering, and Supply Chain teams.

Key responsibilities include month-end cost entries, inventory reconciliations, and maintaining costing accuracy across labor, overhead, and machine rates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• 3+ years of cost accounting experience in manufacturing/construction.
• Strong understanding of standard costing and inventory accounting.
• Advanced Excel skills for large datasets and reconciliations.
• Strong documentation and organizational skills with audit support.
• Ability to challenge data, identify trends, and drive corrective action.

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 and overhead.
• Analyze variances (material, labor, overhead, pricing) and propose solutions.
• Ensure accurate work and production costing across plants.
• Monitor inventory valuation, WIP, and manufacturing absorption costs.
• Serve as finance resource for costing, inventory, and ERP processes.
• Review cost structures and postings for accurate reporting.
• Ensure manufacturing costs are reflected in financial statements.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Challenge data, identify trends, and drive corrective actions.

Skills

Cost accounting

Excel (Advanced)

Variance analysis

Audit support

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance

Job description

Senior Cost Accountant

Position Summary

Our client is seeking a Senior Cost 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.
• Ability to challenge data, identify trends, and drive corrective action.

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.

EEO Notice

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

Representation Notice

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications.

You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada: Based on Highspring's discussions with its Client, Highspring's understanding is that this position for employment is a current vacancy (either through Highspring as a contractor or with the client directly).

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring's use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client's use of AI products in hiring.

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;
• 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.