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Job Description
Senior Manufacturing Cost Accountant
Confidential Robert Half Search | On-Site
Robert Half is partnering with an established and successful manufacturing client to hire a
Senior Manufacturing Cost Accountant
. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced manufacturing cost accountant who enjoys digging into the numbers, identifying opportunities, and working directly with senior leadership.

Rather than simply maintaining cost accounting records, this individual will help leadership understand profitability by product, program, and customer and provide actionable insight to improve business performance. Own and maintain standard costing for manufactured products, including material, labor, and overhead. Develop product-, program-, and customer-level margin and profitability analysis. Support quoting and customer pricing decisions with accurate cost and margin information. Partner with operations, purchasing, engineering, and finance to improve costing accuracy.

Assist with physical inventories, cycle counts, reconciliations, and inventory controls. Prepare financial and operational analysis for the CFO and executive leadership. Help improve costing processes, reporting, controls, and management visibility. For immediate and confidential consideration please contact Jeff Sokolowski directly at (248)365-6131.

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline.
~5+ years of progressive manufacturing cost accounting experience.
~ Strong knowledge of standard costing, BOMs, inventory, cost rollups, and manufacturing variance analysis.
~ Advanced Excel and financial modeling/analysis skills.
~ Automotive, industrial, or component manufacturing experience is a plus.
~ CPA or CMA is preferred but not required. This position offers significantly more exposure than a traditional cost accounting role.

You will work directly with the CFO and operational leaders while helping influence pricing, profitability, costing discipline, and business decisions. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to make a measurable impact while becoming a trusted financial resource to leadership.