About This Role
Working carefully and keeping a tidy warehouse will fit well in the logistics team. This role supports financial reporting, inventory accounting, job costing, and profitability analysis across manufacturing and service operations. The ideal candidate will combine strong accounting fundamentals with a practical understanding of manufacturing environments, inventory management, and operational processes.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and analyze standard costs for products and services
- Prepare monthly cost accounting reports, including labor, material, overhead, and manufacturing variances
- Analyze pricing, margins, and profitability by product line, customer, project, and location
- Conduct post-project profitability analyses and lead debrief discussions with key stakeholders to identify performance drivers, lessons learned, and opportunities for margin improvement
- Standardize and manage the BOM process to support an accurate and timely month-end close, coordinating with key stakeholders to improve efficiency and reduce reliance on subject matter experts
- Support development of annual budgets and forecasts related to manufacturing and operational costs
- Identify cost-reduction opportunities and provide recommendations to management
- Maintain accurate inventory valuation and reconcile inventory subledgers to the general ledger
- Monitor inventory transactions to ensure proper accounting treatment
- Assist with physical inventory counts and cycle count programs
- Investigate inventory discrepancies, prepare inventory adjustments and recommend corrective actions
- Analyze inventory turnover, excess inventory, and obsolete stock reserves
- Prepare monthly journal entries related to inventory, cost of goods sold, and manufacturing activities
- Assist with month-end and year-end close processes
- Support preparation of financial statements and management reports
- Ensure compliance with GAAP and company accounting policies
- Provide supporting schedules for audits, tax compliance, and lender reporting
- Partner with Operations, Purchasing, Warehouse, and Production teams to improve costing accuracy and reporting
- Develop KPIs and dashboards related to production efficiency, inventory management, and profitability
- Evaluate process improvements and automation opportunities within accounting and operations
- Support ERP system enhancements and cost accounting best practices
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- Experience with QuickBooks Desktop manufacturing and wholesale
- 3+ years of accounting experience with at least 2 years in cost accounting, manufacturing accounting, or inventory accounting
