Cost Accountant

Carrollton, TX | Manufacturing Environment

Make an Impact Where Strategy Meets the Plant Floor

Are you a Cost Accountant who thrives in a manufacturing environment and enjoys being close to operations—not just behind spreadsheets? This is an opportunity to join a respected, growing manufacturer where your work directly influences product costing, pricing decisions, profitability, and strategic planning.

Reporting to the Corporate Controller, this role plays a critical part in ensuring accurate product costing, inventory valuation, and financial reporting across multiple plants. You’ll be a trusted partner to Operations, Engineering, Sales, and Plant Accounting—driving insight, improving processes, and helping leadership make smart, data-driven decisions.

If you enjoy digging into the “why” behind the numbers and collaborating cross-functionally to improve performance, this role offers both visibility and impact.

• High-visibility position with direct access to corporate leadership
• True business partnership with Operations, Engineering, Sales, and Supply Chain
• Opportunity to influence pricing, margins, capital investments, and cost controls
• Hands-on exposure to manufacturing operations and ERP systems
• Stable, well-established company with a strong growth trajectory
• Competitive compensation, solid benefits, and long-term career potential

• Lead cost accounting activities to ensure accurate product costing and inventory valuation
• Maintain and enhance cost accounting systems, policies, and procedures
• Perform cost-benefit analyses for projects, capital investments, and new initiatives
• Develop cost forecasts, financial models, and benchmarks to support strategic planning
• Analyze variances between standard and actual costs and explain results to leadership

• Calculate, update, and maintain standard costs for materials, parts, and finished products
• Lead the annual Cost Roll process in collaboration with Procurement, Materials, and Plant Accounting
• Ensure accuracy of Bills of Materials (BOMs) and routing in the ERP system
• Support new product costing, pricing decisions, and cost rollups for engineering changes
• Partner with Supply Chain to optimize material and supplier costs
• Develop and maintain standard costs for labor, overhead, and production operations
• Conduct time and motion studies to improve labor efficiency and cost accuracy
• Analyze manufacturing processes to identify cost reduction and efficiency opportunities
• Monitor production transactions, scrap, cycle counts, and operational variances
• Translate ERP data into meaningful insights for operations and management

• Support annual plant budgets, forecasts, and standard cost updates in ERP
• Prepare weekly, monthly, and quarterly cost, margin, and inventory reports
• Analyze gross margins by customer, product, and job
• Assist with month-end and year-end close related to inventory and manufacturing accounts
• Support external audits, R&D credit documentation, and compliance initiatives

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field
• 5+ years of accounting experience, including 3–5 years in manufacturing cost accounting
• Experience partnering with Engineering and Operations on cost standards
• Exposure to property accounting strongly preferred

• Strong ERP experience (manufacturing environment required)
• Advanced Excel skills and financial modeling expertise
• Experience analyzing large datasets and building detailed cost reports
• Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP as it applies to manufacturing

• CPA, CMA, or other recognized accounting designation preferred

• Strong analytical mindset with exceptional attention to detail
• Comfortable being out on the plant floor partnering with operations
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights
• Self-motivated, dependable, and able to manage multiple priorities
• High integrity and ability to handle confidential information with discretion
• Confident communicator who can present findings to leadership

This company values collaboration, accountability, continuous improvement, and integrity. You’ll be empowered to ask questions, challenge assumptions, and help shape better business outcomes—all while working with a team that values expertise and partnership.

If you’re ready for a role where your cost accounting expertise truly matters, this is the opportunity to take the next step.