Senior Cost Accountant - Floor-Focused Manufacturing Costing

Talentry; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Bonus opportunity

Job summary

Talentry in San Diego, CA, seeks a Senior Cost Accountant to establish a modern cost-accounting discipline for a high-precision manufacturing environment. You will partner with Plant Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance to translate BOMs, yield, scrap, and raw material flows into standard costs and margin visibility.

You will work hands-on on the plant floor, driving cost discipline, ensuring GAAP compliance, and supporting pricing reviews and new product introductions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
• CMA or CPA is a plus, but hands-on manufacturing depth is paramount.
• 5+ years of progressive cost-accounting experience in discrete manufacturing.

Responsibilities

• Build, validate, and maintain standard cost across production operations.
• Analyze monthly variances including PPV, material usage, labor efficiency, scrap, and overhead.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Production, Logistics, and Procurement on ECNs, work-order closures, scrap logging, and cycle counts.
• Direct month-end inventory reconciliations for raw materials, WIP, finished goods, and in-transit goods.
• Deliver gross-margin and profitability analyses by product line, site, program, and customer.

Skills

Cost accounting

Quality data analysis

BOM accounting

Floor operations

Drill-down variance analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

SAP

Oracle

JD Edwards

IFS

Dynamics

Job description

Talentry in San Diego, CA, seeks a Senior Cost Accountant to establish a modern cost-accounting discipline for a high-precision manufacturing environment. You will partner with Plant Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance to translate BOMs, yield, scrap, and raw material flows into standard costs and margin visibility.

You will work hands-on on the plant floor, driving cost discipline, ensuring GAAP compliance, and supporting pricing reviews and new product introductions.