Cost Accountant

Hybrid Cost Accountant This Jobot Job is hosted by: Jason Goldstein Are you a fit? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Quick Apply" button and sending us your resume. Salary: $80,000 - $105,000 per year A bit about us: Were connecting with Cost Accountants across Texas who enjoy working at the intersection of accounting, manufacturing, and operations. If you like analyzing production costs, inventory, margins, and manufacturing variances, wed like to learn what youre looking for next. Why join us? Why explore opportunities with us? Potential opportunities with established and growing manufacturers. Exposure to plant operations, production leadership, and financial decision-making. Roles where cost accounting directly influences profitability. Career paths toward Senior Cost Accountant, Plant Controller, and Controller. Whether youre looking for greater responsibility, stronger compensation, or a new challenge, lets connect. Job Details Cost Accountant Employment Type: Full-Time Position Overview We are seeking a Cost Accountant to support financial performance, inventory accuracy, product costing, and operational profitability within a manufacturing environment. This professional will work closely with accounting, finance, production, and operations teams to analyze manufacturing costs and provide reliable financial information for business decisions. Key Responsibilities Maintain and analyze standard costing, actual costing, or other applicable product-costing methodologies. Monitor raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods costs. Analyze labor, material, overhead, and production variances. Support inventory reconciliations, cycle counts, and valuation. Prepare cost reports, margin analysis, and operational financial reporting. Assist with month-end close, journal entries, and account reconciliations. Analyze manufacturing efficiency, scrap, waste, and production expenses. Partner with plant management and operations to identify cost trends and improvement opportunities. Support annual budgets, forecasts, and cost updates. Qualifications Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field preferred. Experience in manufacturing, cost accounting, plant accounting, or inventory accounting. Understanding of inventory valuation, cost allocations, and manufacturing variances. Experience working with ERP systems and advanced Excel functions. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. Ability to communicate financial information to operations teams. Interested in hearing more? Easy Apply now by clicking the "Quick Apply" button. Jobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide an inclusive work environment that celebrates diversity and all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Jobot also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is Jobot’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. Sometimes Jobot is required to perform background checks with your authorization. Jobot will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with any applicable federal, state, or local law regarding criminal backgrounds, including but not limited to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring and the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Information collected and processed as part of your Jobot candidate profile, and any job applications, resumes, or other information you choose to submit is subject to Jobots Privacy Policy, as well as the Jobot California Worker Privacy Notice and Jobot Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tools which are available at jobot.com/legal. By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Jobot, and/or its agents and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy here: jobot.com/privacy-policy