Cost Accounting Professional, Strong Manufacturing Finance Background

• Cost Accounting Expertise: Cost accounting professional with extensive experience in manufacturing cost accounting, standard costing, inventory accounting, variance analysis, and financial reporting, supporting operational efficiency and sound financial decision-making.
• Standard Costing & Cost Control: Maintained standard costs, bills of materials (BOMs), routings, cost roll-ups, labor rates, and overhead rates while ensuring accurate product costing and supporting cost control initiatives.
• Variance Analysis: Performed detailed material, labor, overhead, purchase price, and manufacturing variance analyses to identify cost drivers, improve financial accuracy, and recommend corrective actions.
• Inventory Accounting: Managed inventory accounting activities including raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods reconciliations, physical inventories, cycle counts, inventory analysis, and excess and obsolete inventory reviews.
• Manufacturing Financial Reporting: Supported month-end close through journal entries, reconciliations, financial reporting, margin analysis, and GAAP-compliant accounting for manufacturing operations.
• Operational Finance Partnership: Worked closely with manufacturing and operations teams to improve cost accuracy, monitor plant spending, analyze production performance, and support operational decision-making through financial analysis.
• Cost Reduction & Process Improvement: Identified opportunities to reduce operating costs, improve manufacturing efficiency, automate financial processes, reduce waste, and strengthen reporting through continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Budgeting, Forecasting & KPI Analysis: Contributed to budgeting, forecasting, KPI reporting, profitability analysis, expense management, and financial performance reporting to support business planning and operational improvement.
• Education & Certifications: Holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting.

COST ACCOUNTING PRO | Project Profitability | WIP, Job Costing, Inventory, Scrap, & Overhead 

• Managed standard vs. actual cost variance analysis, providing COGS insights and margin analysis to senior leadership to support financial and operational decisions.
• Calculated and monitored monthly Work-In-Progress (WIP) balances, contributing to accurate recognition of inventory values and cost flows across production cycles.
• Performed monthly reconciliations and analysis of Purchase Price Variance (PPV), WIP, and raw material inventory accounts, ensuring accuracy in inventory valuation and variance reporting.
• Developed and maintained inter- and intra-company billing and reconciliation logs, ensuring alignment across multiple entities and eliminating out-of-balance conditions.
• Assisted with the development, re-burdening, and application of provisional and final overhead rates, ensuring compliance with internal policies and external audit requirements.
• Calculated and updated monthly job costs and profit margins on completed projects, supporting operational visibility and financial analysis of production profitability.
• Ensured direct material costs were appropriately booked to inventory or WIP accounts, maintaining consistency with GAAP and internal control standards.
• Analyzed product-level cost variances and scrap costs, maintaining profit margin tracking tools and presenting findings to leadership for process improvement and margin optimization.

• Inventory cycle counts
• Management of obsolete inventory
• Job costing
• Calculation of cost of labor and overhead
• Variable and fixed costing
• Bachelor’s in Business Administration

• In-depth analysis and optimization of cycle counts and Cost of Goods Sold
• Applying new costing methods for increased accuracy
• Updating and improving reporting for inventory, absorption and shrink
• Modernizing freight cost reporting
• Working with finance team to improve budgeting for improved accuracy in various cost centers
• Works cross-functionally with Productions, Supply Chain, and Engineering to improve accuracy of costs
• In-depth analysis of finished goods, work-in-process, and in-transit inventory
• MBA in Accounting
• Bachelor’s in Management Information Systems
• Software: SAP, Oracle, SalesForce, NetSuite, AS400

• End-to-end cost accounting: from raw materials to finished goods
• Overhead calculations
• Variance analysis to determine root causes of cost deviations
• Cycle counting
• Inventory
• Standard costing
• Master’s in Accounting

• 20+ years of dedicated cost accounting expertise
• Monthly close for all cost accounting functions
• Documentation of standard costs
• Inventory valuations and reconciliations
• Preparation of Cost of Goods Sold (COGS)
• Ensuring consistency between raw materials, WIP, and finished goods
• Internal cost audits
• Establishment of all freight cost processes
• International experience
• Software conversions
• Variance analysis to determine root causes
• Tracking percentage complete

• 10+ years of dedicated manufacturing and cost accounting
• Oversight of all costing and inventory activities
• Development of detailed costs for all aspects of manufacturing
• Gross margin analysis
• Monitoring all cycle counts
• MBA
• Bachelor’s in Accounting
• Strong Software Experience: SAP, Hyperion, Oracle, Dynamics, JD Edwards

• 5 years of dedicated cost accounting experience
• Revised cycle counting procedures
• Implementation of controls for inventory and raw materials
• Oversight of all cost accounting, from raw materials to final product
• Variance analysis
• Calculation of overhead rates
• Monthly, quarterly and annual close
• Master’s in Accounting