Senior Cost Accountant — Manufacturing & SAP Partner

Jobvite, Inc.; Maple Grove (MN); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/Dental/Vision

HSA with company contributions

401k with company match

Parental Leave

Job summary

Laborie seeks a Senior Cost Accountant to support operations financial close across locations and deliver monthly reporting including KPIs to Finance, Plant Managers, and operations teams. The role covers inventory, month-end reconciliation, excess/obsolete reserve analysis, and cycle counting.

You will partner with operations on forecasting, AOP, budgets, and cost‑saving initiatives (Kaizen, VSM, Six Sigma), and help establish accurate product and standard costs in the ERP system.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field.
• 7+ years in accounting/finance with operations/manufacturing focus.
• 3–5 years experience with SAP; advanced MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI).
• Demonstrated professionalism in written and verbal communications; cross‑functional teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Month-End & Cost Accounting: close activities including inventory, COGS, variances, capex, journal entries, reconciliations, standard costing, and audits.
• Operations Finance Partnership: partner with operations on forecasting, budgets, planning, capital spend, and Kaizen/Six Sigma cost savings.
• Costing & Variance Analysis: analyze labor, overhead, material variances; review BOMs; maintain product costs in ERP.
• Reporting, Modeling & Decision Support: build financial models, KPIs, make/buy analyses, capex requests, performance reports.
• Inventory & Systems Support: support inventories, cycle counts, ERP/SAP implementations and enhancements.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cross-functional partner

ERP navigation

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance

Tools

SAP

PowerBI

Planful

Oracle EPM

Blackline

Job description

Laborie seeks a Senior Cost Accountant to support operations financial close across locations and deliver monthly reporting including KPIs to Finance, Plant Managers, and operations teams. The role covers inventory, month-end reconciliation, excess/obsolete reserve analysis, and cycle counting.

You will partner with operations on forecasting, AOP, budgets, and cost‑saving initiatives (Kaizen, VSM, Six Sigma), and help establish accurate product and standard costs in the ERP system.