Cost Accountant

Job Description

Job Description

We are looking for a Cost Accountant to join our team in City of Industry, California and provide financial insight that supports sound manufacturing and commercial decisions. This position plays a key role in monitoring product and job costs, maintaining reliable inventory accounting, and helping business leaders understand margin performance across operations. The ideal candidate brings a solid foundation in cost accounting, hands-on experience in a manufacturing setting, and the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams to improve accuracy, controls, and profitability.

Responsibilities:
• Manage product and job costing records in Epicor Kinetic, including standard costs, cost structures, bills of material, routings, labor assumptions, and overhead allocations.
• Evaluate differences between expected and actual costs across materials, labor, freight, subcontracting, tariffs, and other manufacturing inputs, then identify drivers and recommend corrective actions.
• Review job activity, completion status, estimated total costs, and exception items to ensure financial results are recorded accurately and on time.
• Partner with Operations and Engineering to confirm the accuracy of labor standards, yields, scrap assumptions, cycle times, and manufacturing routings used in costing.
• Support financial evaluation for new products, design updates, sourcing alternatives, make-versus-buy decisions, and customer pricing considerations.
• Reconcile inventory, work-in-process, accrued receipts, purchase price variance, subcontract activity, and related manufacturing balances to the general ledger.
• Participate in month-end close by preparing journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, variance reporting, and profitability analysis for management review.
• Monitor inventory controls through cycle counts, physical inventory support, review of adjustments, and analysis of obsolete stock, rework, scrap, and transaction exceptions.
• Collaborate with plant and business stakeholders to turn cost and margin data into recommendations that improve pricing, sourcing, efficiency, and overall profitability.
• Assist with reporting enhancements, audit support, documentation of controls, and process standardization efforts across locations, including broader organizational and master-data improvement initiatives.• 3+ years of experience in cost accounting, with exposure to manufacturing or industrial operations.
• Strong knowledge of standard costing, cost analysis, inventory accounting, and manufacturing variance review.
• Experience reconciling inventory-related accounts and supporting month-end close activities in a manufacturing environment.
• Ability to interpret operational data and explain financial results to cross-functional business partners.
• Familiarity with ERP systems used for manufacturing accounting; experience with Epicor Kinetic is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in analyzing product margins, job profitability, labor and overhead performance, and purchase price impacts.
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and the ability to maintain accurate records and supporting documentation.