Senior Cost Accountant

Senior Cost Accountant

$105000 - $130000 per year | Hillside, IL | On-site | Permanent

Own manufacturing cost analysis, inventory, and operational reporting across a complex automotive production environment.

A bit about us:

We are representing a long-established, family-owned automotive manufacturing organization headquartered in Hillside, Illinois.

Founded in 1955, the company manufactures and remanufactures drivetrain and powertrain products across a highly integrated operation encompassing machining, engineering, assembly, testing, remanufacturing, electrification, and related production activities.

The organization is adding a Senior Cost Accountant to strengthen manufacturing cost visibility, inventory accounting, operational analysis, and financial reporting.

Why join us?

• $105,000-$130,000 base salary
• Broad ownership across manufacturing cost accounting, inventory, and operational analysis
• Direct exposure to machining, assembly, engineering, testing, and production operations
• Opportunity to partner closely with manufacturing, supply chain, accounting, and finance leadership
• Analyze the operational drivers behind product costs, margins, and plant performance
• Opportunity to improve costing processes, reporting, controls, and data accuracy
• Join an established family-owned manufacturing organization operating since 1955

Job Details

The Senior Cost Accountant will connect financial reporting with activity on the manufacturing floor. This person will maintain and analyze product and inventory costs, investigate manufacturing variances, support month-end close, and provide greater visibility into the operational factors affecting costs and margins.

Responsibilities include:

• Maintain and analyze manufacturing cost information across products, inventory, and production activity
• Support standard costing and maintain product cost structures
• Analyze material, labor, overhead, purchase-price, usage, and other manufacturing variances
• Perform inventory accounting, reconciliations, reserve analysis, and related month-end activities
• Evaluate bills of materials, routings, labor standards, overhead assumptions, and other product-cost inputs
• Partner with manufacturing and operations leaders to investigate variances and improve financial visibility
• Analyze product costs, margins, inventory trends, and manufacturing KPIs
• Support annual cost rolls, budgeting, forecasting, audits, and continuous improvement of cost-accounting processes

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Progressive accounting experience with meaningful manufacturing cost-accounting exposure
• Hands-on experience with cost accounting, inventory accounting, and manufacturing variance analysis
• Working knowledge of standard costing and manufacturing accounting concepts
• Experience operating within an ERP-driven manufacturing environment
• Strong Excel and financial analysis capabilities
• Ability to work cross-functionally with accounting, finance, manufacturing, production, and supply-chain stakeholders

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