Cost Accountant

Cost Accountant

We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Cost Accountant to support financial operations at our manufacturing facility. This role is responsible for analyzing manufacturing costs, maintaining accurate inventory and standard costing, supporting month-end close activities, and partnering with operations to improve plant performance and profitability. This role is also responsible for planning and controlling tooling projects with a strong focus on cost tracking, financial transparency, and budget adherence.

Responsibilities include:

• Initiate and support growth and profitability projects related to existing and new business and validate results for all productivity projects
• Manage and track tooling projects cost and provide financial transparency related to tooling
• Prepare monthly margin analysis and variance reports (product, customer, product group) and provide insight to business partners regarding product line and customer profitability
• Provide timely, relevant variance analysis to sales & operations to drive committed results
• Prepare and analyze manufacturing variance reports
• Analyze production data, labor utilization, scrap, and efficiency metrics
• Assist with product pricing process and calculate price updates on monthly and quarterly escalator/de-escalator contracts
• Update Bills of Material
• Support month-end close activities including journal entries and account reconciliations
• Maintain and analyze standard costs for raw materials, labor, and overhead
• Support physical inventory counts and audits
• Monitor inventory transactions and ensure inventory accuracy, and perform monthly inventory reconciliations and cycle count analysis
• Partner with operations leadership to identify cost-saving opportunities and process improvements
• Capital asset tracking and summarization
• Assist with annual budgeting and forecasting processes
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and accounting policies
• Prepare ad hoc financial and operational analysis as needed
• Ensuring the promotion of customer focus throughout the organization and in particular, your area of responsibility.
• Ensuring that the integrity of the quality management system is maintained when changes to the quality management system are planned and implemented.
• Ensuring that the processes are delivering their intended outputs

This is an onsite position 5 days a week at our Clinton Township, MI facility