Manager, Cost Accounting - MFG experience required

**This role is located in our Production facility in Norwood, MA, and will follow our Hybrid Work Schedule**

This role requires experience in Cost Accounting from full production manufacturing companies.

💰 Pay Range: $125,000 – $145,000 annually (based on experience and qualifications)

 

📊 Ready to make an impact?
As a Cost Accounting Manager, you’ll play a critical role in a rapidly growing organization, partnering closely with Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance to drive smarter business decisions. This role offers the opportunity to lead a team, influence senior leadership, and bring greater clarity and transparency to product costs, forecasting, and financial performance.

💪 Why You’ll Love Working Here

🚀 Join a rapidly growing organization where your work directly supports business decisions

🧮 Play a high-impact role partnering closely with Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance

📊 Influence senior leadership with insights that drive pricing, investment, and cost strategy

👥 Lead and develop a team while shaping best-in-class cost accounting processes

🏢 Enjoy a hybrid work model based out of our Norwood, MA corporate headquarters

🔍 Work in an environment that values curiosity, accountability, and continuous improvement

 

🛠️ What You’ll Do

👥 Manage, train, and develop the Cost Accounting team while ensuring organizational goals are met or exceeded

📈 Build advanced cost-of-materials and product cost models used by senior leadership to make key business decisions

🧾 Prepare analyses, reports, and presentations with insights and recommendations for Senior Management

💼 Maintain oversight of capital-related transactions, fixed asset valuation, accounting, and reporting

📊 Provide financial leadership for the Capital Planning process, including ROI analysis

🤝 Serve as a financial leader on cross-functional project teams

🔄 Act as a key contributor to the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process

🏭 Partner with Manufacturing and Engineering to manage production costs and inventory

📊 Develop and implement product cost dashboards and KPIs

⚙️ Manage cost systems and drive related process and protocol improvements

💰 Budget and forecast Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) based on commodity market trends

📉 Partner with Operations leaders to analyze and track cost-savings initiatives

📅 Support the month-end close by reconciling accounts, preparing journal entries, and analyzing variances

🔍 Participate in and monitor cycle count activity within the plant

🧩 Maintain cost standards and bills of material for WIP and finished goods

📉 Analyze and communicate variances related to labor, yields, material usage, overhead, and absorption

🧠 Perform ad hoc analysis and support continuous process improvement initiatives

🔧 Complete other duties as assigned

 

🎓 What You’ll Bring

🎓 Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance (required)

🏭 5-7 years of cost accounting experience in a full production manufacturing environment

🧮 Strong understanding of cost accounting, inventory controls, and manufacturing finance

📊 Proven ability to mine data, build models, and develop new data streams

💻 Strong ERP experience — Dynamics 365, GP Dynamics, OR SAP highly preferred

🧠 Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines

🤝 Collaborative mindset with strong communication skills

 

🌟 Bonus Points For

🎓 MBA, CPA, or CMA

⚙️ Experience with MRP systems and advanced costing techniques

📈 Experience building dashboards, KPIs, and financial tools for leadership

🔄 Demonstrated success driving process improvements in a growing environment

 

🏭 Your Work Environment

🏢 Hybrid work model based out of our Norwood, MA corporate headquarters

🤝 Frequent collaboration with Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance teams

⏱️ Fast-paced, growth-oriented environment with evolving priorities