Strategic Cost Accountant – Manufacturing Analytics

Tenneco; South Bend (IN); Presencial; USD 70.000 - 95.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Tenneco is seeking a Cost Accountant to join our manufacturing finance team in Indiana. You’ll partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement and Finance to strengthen cost control, budgeting, forecasting, and decision-making while upholding safety policies.

Key requirements include a bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance/business and manufacturing cost accounting experience, with proficiency in SAP, Excel, Power BI, and Power Query.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or related field.
• Accounting experience; preferably in manufacturing.
• Experience with standard costing, inventory accounting, variance analysis, month-end close, and GAAP.

Responsabilidades

• Maintain standard costs for materials, labor, overhead, routings, and BOM; coordinate cost rolls.
• Monitor and analyze actual vs standard manufacturing costs incl. price, usage, labor efficiency, overhead, scrap.
• Prepare monthly close entries, reconciliations, inventory reserves, absorption analysis, and schedules.
• Support cycle counts and physical inventories; investigate discrepancies.
• Explain cost drivers to leadership; develop cost-reduction and productivity initiatives.
• Support budgets, forecasts, standard-rate calculations, and profitability analyses by product/customer.
• Review new products, changes, sourcing decisions, and capital projects for cost/margin impact.
• Maintain internal controls and support SOX compliance; provide audit schedules.
• Improve cost-accounting processes, reports, master data, and ERP controls.
• Develop recurring and ad hoc management reports using ERP data.

Conocimientos

Cost accounting

Variance analysis

Financial reporting

Cross-functional partnering

Data interpretation

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance/business

Herramientas

SAP

Power BI

Power Query

Excel (Advanced)

Descripción del empleo

Tenneco is seeking a Cost Accountant to join our manufacturing finance team in Indiana. You’ll partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Engineering, Procurement and Finance to strengthen cost control, budgeting, forecasting, and decision-making while upholding safety policies.

Key requirements include a bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance/business and manufacturing cost accounting experience, with proficiency in SAP, Excel, Power BI, and Power Query.