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Senior Cost Accountant

Divergent Technologies · Torrance, United States

RemoteImported listingfull-timeabout 2 months ago

About The Role

Join our team as a Senior Cost Accountant, where you will be a subject-matter expert in cost accounting. You will own core cost accounting activities, work closely with cross-functional teams, and drive improvements in cost accounting methodologies and processes. Your responsibilities will include month-end close support, standard cost management, reconciliations and analyses, policy and procedures documentation, landed cost and variances analysis, ERP support, and cross-functional partnership. You should have a strong analytical judgment, deep understanding of inventory flows and cost accounting, and experience in manufacturing or complex operational environments.

  • Assumer la responsabilité des activités de comptabilité analytique, y compris la gestion des coûts standards, l'évaluation des stocks et les contrôles financiers.
  • Collaborer avec les équipes de la chaîne d'approvisionnement, de la production et de la gestion de programme pour définir et améliorer les méthodologies de comptabilité analytique.
  • Diriger les activités de clôture comptable liées à la comptabilité analytique, y compris la préparation et la publication des écritures de journal.
  • Strong analytical judgment with the ability toidentifyroot causes, evaluate accounting and operational implications, and develop scalable solutions
  • Deep understanding of inventory flows, standard costing, PPV, absorption, WIP accounting, and COGS recognition in an ERP environment
  • Demonstratedability to define and improve cost accounting processes, controls, methodologies, and best practices
  • Comfortable operating with significant autonomy in a fast-paced environment with evolving processes and imperfect data
  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
  • Demonstratedexperience preparing and owning journal entries, account reconciliations, and close workpapers independently
  • Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
  • Demonstratedexperience independently owning multiple cost accounting workstreams and resolving complex accounting and operational issues with limited oversight
  • Demonstratedability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and lead issue resolution without direct authority
  • Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, structured reconciliation models)
  • Experience owning cost accounting close activities and multiple inventory and cost accounting workstreams end-to-end in a manual or semi-manual environment
  • 4–6 years of progressive experience in cost accounting, inventory accounting, or manufacturing accounting; candidates with additional experience are encouraged to apply
  • Experience in manufacturing, hardware, aerospace, or complex operational environments
  • Exposure to ERP environments requiring manual accounting intervention or workarounds
  • Experience serving as a cost accounting subject-matter expert within a complex manufacturing organization
  • Advanced working knowledge of PPV, absorption, WIP accounting, inventory valuation, landed cost, and standard cost systems
  • Demonstratedability to build and maintain scalable, audit-ready reconciliation packages and control frameworks with minimal oversight
  • Experience defining cost accounting processes, documentation, controls, and workflow standards
  • Experience leading Finance requirements, testing, and validation for ERP or cost accounting process enhancements
  • Oracle Fusion experience preferred
  • Experience mentoring peers orprovidingtechnical guidance across Finance and operational teams

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