Location: Plainfield, IN
Pay Range: $85,000.00 - $100,000.00/yearly
Category: Accounting, Finance, Tax, & Audit
Employment Type: Permanent
The Senior Cost Accountant oversees and analyzes manufacturing cost expenditures, generating detailed reports to support operations and sales, ensuring accurate inventory ledger transactions, and developing financial reports to explain cost variances. Responsibilities include monitoring material, labor, overhead, and efficiency variances, supporting financial flashes, monthly results, forecasts, and budgets. The position collaborates with operations, sales/marketing, and finance teams, providing insightful analyses and improvement suggestions, while managing the cost accounting system with an understanding of manufacturing operations and accounting practices.
Schedule
Schedule
- Monday-Friday
- 8am-5pm
Key Responsibilities
- Reviews cost and variance trends; researching significant variations and recommending appropriate responses.
- Prepares daily operating performance analysis, including inventory movements, sales, and cost of goods sold, to identify significant issues in a timely fashion.
- Performs monthly inventory valuation and reconciliation of cost ledgers.
- Acts as the finance lead for annual physical inventory and monthly cycle counts, ensuring timely and accurate financial reporting implications.
- Manages and maintains E&O Inventory analysis and calculations.
- Prepares and monitors operating forecasts based on budgets, reviewing significant variations and analyzing operating impact.
Experience/Education/Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree in Accounting, Finance or any related field
- 3-5 years supporting a manufacturing business
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office
- 3-5 years of Cost accounting
- 3-5 years using ERP systems
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, specifically Excel
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
About Us
At NCW, we do our best to provide the brightest talent to the best companies across the country. Founded in 2000 our company’s purpose was to redefine the way people think about contract staffing. People come first in our business. Our services are refined with in-depth expertise in our industry verticals, construction, manufacturing, warehousing & distribution, and engineering. We care about finding solutions that benefit everyone involved: our clients, our candidates, and our workforce.
NCW is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity and inclusion are important components of our culture and hiring practices. NCW is an employer and business partner dedicated to elevating the quality of life of our employees, clients, and communities.
At NCW, we do our best to provide the brightest talent to the best companies across the country. Founded in 2000 our company’s purpose was to redefine the way people think about contract staffing. People come first in our business. Our services are refined with in-depth expertise in our industry verticals, construction, manufacturing, warehousing & distribution, and engineering. We care about finding solutions that benefit everyone involved: our clients, our candidates, and our workforce.
NCW is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity and inclusion are important components of our culture and hiring practices. NCW is an employer and business partner dedicated to elevating the quality of life of our employees, clients, and communities.
