Manufacturing Company Estimator

An established process-manufacturing company in the East Houston/Pasadena area is seeking an experienced Cost Accountant. This position will play an important role in product costing, inventory valuation, manufacturing variance analysis, forecasting, and operational decision support.
This is more than a traditional month-end accounting role. The Cost Accountant will collaborate directly with plant operations, procurement, supply chain, and company leadership to improve cost visibility, identify operational trends, and strengthen profitability.
Maintain and analyze product costs, standard costs, and manufacturing cost data.
Review material, labor, overhead, production, usage, yield, and purchase-price variances.
Investigate significant cost variances and communicate findings to accounting and operations leadership.
Support inventory valuation for raw materials, work in process, and finished goods.
Review inventory adjustments, cycle-count results, scrap, waste, and obsolete inventory.
Maintain costing information, bills of material, routings, and related master data within SAP.
Support month-end close through journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and financial analysis.
Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and operational planning.
Support internal and external audits involving inventory, manufacturing costs, and financial controls.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
Professional experience in cost accounting, plant accounting, manufacturing accounting, or a closely related position.
Hands-on experience with product costing, standard costing, and manufacturing variance analysis.
Experience with inventory accounting and valuation, including raw materials, work in process, and finished goods.
Experience working in a manufacturing, industrial, chemical, or process-manufacturing environment.
Working knowledge of month-end close, journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, and financial reporting.
Strong Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookups, and data analysis.
Ability to investigate financial and operational data and communicate findings clearly.
Ability to work effectively with accounting, operations, procurement, supply chain, and leadership.
Experience using SAP, including SAP CO, SAP FI/CO, or SAP S/4HANA.
Experience maintaining bills of material, routings, cost centers, or costing master data.
Experience analyzing purchase-price, material, labor, overhead, usage, yield, and production variances.
Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, Power Query, or similar reporting tools.
CPA, CMA, or progress toward a professional accounting certification.
Experience in chemical, fertilizer, food, energy, petrochemical, or another process-manufacturing industry.
Produce accurate and timely product-cost and inventory information.
Develop strong working relationships with plant and business teams.
Maintain reliable costing information within SAP and related systems.
Work closely with operations and leadership rather than being limited to transactional accounting.
Gain broad exposure to manufacturing finance, inventory, procurement, and supply-chain operations.
Contribute to meaningful process and reporting improvements.
Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply with a current resume outlining their cost-accounting, manufacturing, inventory, variance-analysis, and SAP experience.

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