Head of Accounting (Remote)

About Life Fitness / Hammer Strength Life Fitness / Hammer Strength designs and manufactures high-performance fitness equipment. We are seeking a detail-oriented and strategic Manager, Cost Accounting to ensure accuracy, integrity, and visibility of product costing and inventory across our global manufacturing operations.
Role Summary This hybrid position is based in the Global Support Center in Rosemont, IL. Monday and Friday are remote, with Tuesday through Thursday in-office collaboration days.
Responsibilities Create, maintain, and update product costs in Oracle.
Participate in the annual frozen cost update by reviewing current material costs, applying the fixed and variable manufacturing overhead rates, and reviewing pending cost adjustments as necessary.
Manage the nightly Oracle cost update processes to ensure costs update as expected, suggesting and ultimately making changes to processes as required.
Work with project managers to calculate new product costs in ad hoc worksheets and in Oracle as applicable.
Participate in global projects and initiatives as a finance representative, driving change in current processes.
Assist in business reviews by preparing presentations for senior management.
Prepare reports, trend analyses, and analytics, including inventory analysis and the global inventory package / inventory turns.
Assist with the timely and accurate closing of the monthly, quarterly, and annual consolidation cycle, including journal entries, account reconciliations, and related reporting packages.
Reconcile showroom inventory and address any variances.
Participate in domestic annual physical inventories and related book to physical reconciliation processes as required.
Review, maintain, and monitor inventory valuation, accuracy, and variances using perpetual inventory records and the general ledger through daily, weekly, monthly, and annual processes, internal controls, and analyses.
Ensure perpetual inventory transactions are calculated and recorded in the general ledger properly and on a timely basis.
Perform detailed purchase price variance (PPV) analysis, reviewing large PPVs and working with commodity managers to validate invoice prices and inventory valuation.
Age in transit inventory and follow up on aged in transit records with the appropriate warehouse personnel.
Serve as a primary contact for Manufacturing, Supply Chain, CSS, Engineering, IT, and Finance across multiple manufacturing facilities, and interact with external auditors, systems consultants, and all levels of management to accomplish tasks and communicate results.
Assist in creating, testing, and analyzing system integration processes related to inventory transactions and perpetual inventory records.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications Minimum bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or CMA preferred.
7+ years of progressive cost accounting experience, including demonstrated ownership of standard costing processes in a manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data sets and provide valuable, relevant insight to the business.
Intermediate to advanced knowledge of automated systems and applications used in manufacturing and accounting (Oracle preferred).
Advanced Excel skills and proficiency across Microsoft Office products.
Experience with data warehouses; Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) preferred.
Compensation & Benefits Salary range: $93,000 - $135,900 annually for U.S. applicants in Rosemont, IL (actual salary may vary for other locations).
Eligibility to participate in Life Fitness / Hammer Strength’s annual Manager Incentive Plan for an annual discretionary bonus.
Comprehensive benefits package, including 401(k) with 4% employer match, medical, dental and vision insurance, parental, medical and military leave, paid time off (12 paid holidays, at least 13 days vacation, sick leave as per law), short-term disability, optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, life and supplemental life, hospital indemnity, identity protection, legal services, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, employee discounts, and employee assistance program.
Location Rosemont, IL (hybrid).
Equal Opportunity Employer Life Fitness / Hammer Strength is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants, including individuals with disabilities and protected veterans, are encouraged to apply. We comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding employment, recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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