Cost Accountant

American Standard / Bootz is seeking a hands-on Cost Accountant to strengthen costing and inventory controls at our Salem manufacturing facility. This individual-contributor role will serve as the primary on-site finance partner, working closely with plant leadership and the remote finance team. The ideal candidate enjoys solving problems at their source—connecting plant-floor activity, system transactions, inventory movement, and financial results. What You’ll Do Own standard-cost setup, product costing, BOM accuracy, and inventory-valuation support. Review inventory movements and ensure transactions are captured correctly in CMS. Identify costing, master-data, and transaction-process gaps and implement practical controls. Reconcile and validate ERP and spreadsheet data at the transaction level. Develop repeatable cost-to-produce, inventory, and departmental-spend reporting. Translate cost and inventory information into actionable insights for plant and finance leadership. Partner with operations to correct inaccurate processes and prevent recurring finance cleanup. Establish clear owners, review routines, and escalation paths for exceptions. What We’re Looking For Hands-on manufacturing cost-accounting experience. Experience with standard costing, BOMs, product-cost setup, and inventory control or valuation. Demonstrated ability to build or repair incomplete financial processes. Strong ERP and Excel skills, including reconciliations, pivot tables, and lookup functions. Ability to work directly with plant teams and explain the financial impact of operational decisions. Strong attention to detail, ownership, follow-through, and problem-solving skills. Comfort working independently as the primary on-site finance resource. Helpful Experience CMS or similar manufacturing ERP experience. Acquisition or ERP-integration experience. Procurement or departmental-spend reporting. Experience in building products, consumer products, or another inventory-intensive manufacturing environment. Why Join Us? This is an opportunity to build a dependable cost-control environment—not simply maintain an established process. Your work will directly improve product costing, inventory accuracy, margin visibility, and plant-level decision-making. #J-18808-Ljbffr American Bath Group