Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Brilliant® is representing a well-established U.S.-based manufacturer undergoing growth and transformation under a new leadership team. The Senior Cost Analyst will manage product costing, margin analysis, and inventory management across multiple manufacturing facilities while partnering with Operations, Supply Chain, plant leadership, and Finance to improve cost visibility and profitability.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain product costs, including material, labor, and overhead
- Analyze manufacturing cost variances and provide insights to Finance and Operations leadership
- Support new products, process changes, and other initiatives through accurate cost modeling
- Identify cost-reduction and continuous improvement opportunities
- Perform margin and profitability analysis by product, customer, and manufacturing location
- Identify drivers of margin improvement or erosion
- Support pricing decisions and profitability reviews
- Present cost and margin insights to leadership
- Support inventory valuation for raw materials, work-in-process, and finished goods
- Monitor inventory levels, turns, obsolescence, and reserves
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to improve inventory accuracy, cycle counts, and physical inventories
- Ensure appropriate controls related to inventory and cost accounting
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field
- 5+ years of progressive cost accounting or manufacturing finance experience
- Strong manufacturing background with experience in product costing, variance analysis, inventory accounting, and COGS
- Experience partnering directly with plant and operations leadership
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with ERP/manufacturing costing systems
- Ability and willingness to travel approximately 50% domestically
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