Senior Cost Accountant - Manufacturing

Senior Cost Accountant
Location: Northeast Iowa
Work Model: Onsite
Compensation: $90,000 - $105,000 + Benefits
About the Opportunity
We are partnering with a well-established, privately held manufacturing company in Northeast Iowa to identify a Senior Cost Accountant to join its finance team.


This organization is a market leader in its space, with a strong reputation, a stable ownership structure, and continued investment in its people, operations, and systems. This is an exciting opportunity to join a healthy, growing business and play a meaningful role in strengthening and modernizing the company's cost accounting function.


This role reports directly to the Controller and will work closely with finance and operations leadership.
Position Overview
This is a highly visible role that will serve as the organization's primary dedicated cost accounting resource , supporting both day-to-day costing responsibilities and longer-term process improvement initiatives.


The ideal candidate will bring strong manufacturing cost accounting experience and the ability to operate effectively in a hands-on environment while helping improve systems, reporting, and costing processes over time.
Key Responsibilities

• Lead cost accounting activities including standard costing, inventory accounting, and variance analysis
• Support monthly close activities, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting
• Analyze manufacturing costs and identify trends/opportunities for operational improvement
• Partner cross-functionally with operations, engineering, and manufacturing leadership
• Help improve BOM accuracy, routings, and ERP utilization
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate reporting and improve efficiency
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across finance and operations

Qualifications

• 2+ years of manufacturing cost accounting experience required
• Strong understanding of:
  • standard costing
  • inventory accounting
  • variance analysis
  • BOMs and routings
• Comfortable working in a manufacturing environment
• Strong Excel and systems aptitude
• Ability to work independently in a lean, collaborative environment

Preferred:

• ERP experience (Epicor a plus)
• Experience with both standard costing and job costing
• Prior process improvement or ERP optimization experience

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Join a stable, profitable, privately held manufacturer
• High visibility within a lean finance team
• Opportunity to own and improve the costing function
• Strong leadership support and long-term growth potential
• Competitive compensation and benefits

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