Senior Manufacturing Finance & Costing Leader

Virginia Transformer Corp; Roanoke (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Virginia Transformer Corp seeks a Senior Manager of Finance & Accounting to oversee cost accounting, budgeting, and reporting for engineered-to-order transformers. You will turn costs and forecasts into actionable insights for plant and business leadership.

The role leads daily accounting, ensures GAAP compliance, and partners with operations to optimize margins on major orders. A bachelor’s degree and 8+ years manufacturing finance experience are required; CPA/CMA/MBA preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• Eight or more years of manufacturing finance, cost accounting, or general accounting experience, including supervisory or functional leadership.
• Experience with inventory, WIP, overhead absorption, direct labor and material costing, budgeting, and monthly financial close.
• Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, ERP systems, reconciliations, internal controls, and plant financial reporting.
• Experience reconciling job-cost ledgers, production work orders, WIP, inventory valuation, and actual versus quoted manufacturing costs.
• Ability to translate manufacturing costs and order margin results into clear operational actions.
• Ability to explain overhead, labor, material-cost variances, and project margin trends to plant and project leaders.

Responsibilities

• Review project-level manufacturing costs, including conductor and steel, bushings and accessories, direct labor, overhead, WIP, and finished transformers.
• Analyze margin variances and costs to complete. Identify variances related to material prices, rework, scrap, overtime, and schedule changes.
• Partner with operations, procurement, engineering, and project management to analyze material variances, production efficiency, and profitability on major transformer orders.
• Review estimated versus actual use of copper, aluminum, electrical steel, insulation, oil, fabricated parts, shop labor, outside services, and allocated manufacturing overhead.
• Reconcile inventory movements, production work orders, WIP balances, manufacturing variances, and cost transfers.
• Prepare cost-to-complete analyses for long-cycle orders, identifying cost changes tied to engineering revisions, scrap, rework, premium freight, overtime, and testing delays.
• Review finished-order margin analyses against quote assumptions, approved changes, overhead absorption, and actual production costs; recommend updates to estimating or operating controls.

Skills

Manufacturing finance

Cost accounting

Budgeting & forecasting

U.S. GAAP

Team leadership

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance

CPA, CMA, or MBA

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Virginia Transformer Corp seeks a Senior Manager of Finance & Accounting to oversee cost accounting, budgeting, and reporting for engineered-to-order transformers. You will turn costs and forecasts into actionable insights for plant and business leadership.

The role leads daily accounting, ensures GAAP compliance, and partners with operations to optimize margins on major orders. A bachelor’s degree and 8+ years manufacturing finance experience are required; CPA/CMA/MBA preferred.