Cost Accounting Analyst

High visibility Cost Accounting Analyst role in a well-established, privately held manufacturing firm in Kansas City, offering a hands-on opportunity to drive cost controls, inventory valuation, and financial insights in a stable, cash-generative environment.

Why We Like This

• Legacy and Stability: Join a financially healthy, privately held company with a 100-year track record and strong financial stability, offering long-term support and a strong operational foundation.
• Cross-Functional Impact: Work closely with Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance to influence cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic decision-making.
• Growth and Development: Opportunity to take on significant responsibility, gain exposure to both accounting and FP&A functions, and potentially advance toward controller or finance leadership roles.

Requirements

• Strong Cost Accounting Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with standard costing, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variance analysis to manage and optimize key cost accounting functions effectively.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration Skills: Adept at partnering with Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance teams to translate complex cost drivers into actionable insights that influence operational and strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and update standard costs: Oversee materials, labor, and overhead standard costing, lead variance analysis, and communicate key cost drivers to stakeholders.
• Inventory accounting oversight: Manage inventory valuation, reserves, obsolescence, and monitor inventory levels, turns, and aging to optimize working capital.
• Support physical inventory processes: Coordinate and support physical and cycle counts to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with operations, supply chain, procurement, and finance teams to analyze product cost drivers and identify cost improvement and operational efficiency opportunities.
• Financial analysis and reporting: Conduct product pricing, cost, and margin analysis; support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning; deliver actionable insights to drive strategic decisions.

$70,000 - $95,000 a year

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