Senior Cost Accountant: Global Manufacturing Margin Insights

Shape Technologies Group; Kansas; On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Shape Technologies Group seeks a Senior Cost Accountant to support our Baxter Springs, Kansas facility, the largest operation within the group. You will partner with operations and finance to analyze costs, report margins, and drive process improvements in a high-volume manufacturing environment.

Reporting to the Controller, you will manage standard costing updates, inventory reconciliations, and month-end closes, ensuring accurate financial reporting and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting; Masters/CPA/CMA preferred
• Minimum 5 years in high-volume, multi-component manufacturing with complex BOMs across thousands of SKUs
• Knowledge of manufacturing input costs: material, labor, overhead, outside processing
• Solid understanding of integrated ERP systems in a standard cost environment
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills

Responsibilities

• Study data with manufacturing operations to identify and drive improvements
• Analyze changes in design, raw materials, manufacturing methods, or services to determine cost effects and support quotes
• Prepare, analyze and report monthly gross margin analysis by customer, part number and production jobs
• Analyze manufacturing costs and prepare reports comparing standard costs to actual production costs
• Control and maintain cost accounting system, inputs and records to ensure accurate standard product costs
• Investigate work order and labor reporting issues and implement corrective actions
• Complete daily, weekly, monthly reporting on manufacturing activity
• Review daily production and price variances, identify discrepancies and make adjustments
• Timely updates of costs for new products and ECR changes
• Conduct month end processes and journal entries including inventory reconciliations and audit support

Skills

Cost accounting

Manufacturing cost analysis

Excel

ERP systems knowledge

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor’s in Accounting

Masters/ CPA/ CMA preferred

Tools

ERP systems

Costing software

Job description

Shape Technologies Group seeks a Senior Cost Accountant to support our Baxter Springs, Kansas facility, the largest operation within the group. You will partner with operations and finance to analyze costs, report margins, and drive process improvements in a high-volume manufacturing environment.

Reporting to the Controller, you will manage standard costing updates, inventory reconciliations, and month-end closes, ensuring accurate financial reporting and audit readiness.