Title:  Senior Cost Accountant

Job Summary

The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and integrity of product costing, inventory valuation, manufacturing cost analysis, and related financial reporting within a manufacturing environment. This role coordinates with Operations, Supply Chain, Commercial, FP&A, and Finance teams to support business decision-making, maintain strong financial controls, drive process improvements, and ensure compliance with corporate policies and US GAAP.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage standard costing activities, including new material costing, annual standard cost rollout processes, and maintenance of accurate product costs.
• Support monthly and quarterly financial close processes through parked invoice accruals, Open PO reviews, cost allocations, intercompany recharges and capitalization of variances.
• Perform financial analysis at month end including review of Purchase Price Variance (PPV), Production variance, scrap, labor cost and other expenses in the income statement.
• Reconcile inventory balances at month end including inventory balance at third party warehouse and in transit.
• Ensure inventory reserves and write-offs are recorded and approved as per Corporate policies.
• Analyze plant financial results and provide meaningful variance commentary and insights to FP&A and business leadership.
• Support inventory control processes including ABC classification, annual stock count and cycle counts
• Ensure compliance of SOX controls, US GAAP and Corporate accounting policies
• Drive standardization of cost accounting process across multiple plants
• Support UAT testing for manufacturing processes migrating to S4 HANA.
• Support Continuous process improvement initiatives and Power BI solutions
• Coordinate with Commercial, Supply Chain, and Operations teams to support budgeted costing requests, demand planning reviews, and business initiatives.
• Coordinate with supply chain, process engineers, warehouse managers and FP&A at plant
• Support internal, external, and statutory audits.
• Support and assist other functions within the business as required
• Other duties as assigned

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance or equivalent experience required

Work Experience

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience including atleast 2 years of experience in cost accounting in a manufacturing environment using SAP or other ERP

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong understanding of US GAAP
• Experience of SAP preferred
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Strong analytical skills and ability to summarize conclusions and make recommendations to management
• Ability to effectively prioritize and escalate issues

License and Certifications

• Accounting Qualification (CPA, CIMA, ACCA, ACA) preferred

Additional Requirements

• Position operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. May need to sit for extended periods of time
• Use written and oral communication skills
• Read and interpret data, information and documents
• Must maintain the ability to work well with others in a variety of situations
• Must be able to multi-task, work under time constraints, tight deadlines, problem solve, and prioritize
• Ability to make work independently and sound decision making
• Observe and interpret situations, analyze and solve problems
• Able to be aware of all relevant SOPs as per Company policy as they are related to the position covered by this Job Description #LI-JJ1 #LI-HYBRID 

Travel Requirements