Senior Cost Accountant in Waller, Texas at MBC Companies Lebanon LLC
Job Description
The Senior Cost Accountant will provide dedicated cost-accounting and manufacturing-finance support to strengthen standard costing, inventory valuation, operational analysis, and month-end close execution. The role is designed to reduce the Controller’s direct transactional and analytical workload while improving the accuracy, timeliness, and usability of manufacturing financial information.
The position will serve as a hands-on business partner to Operations, Supply Chain, Production, and Finance. Primary value will come from maintaining reliable product costs, explaining manufacturing performance, improving inventory controls, supporting NetSuite processes, and converting operational data into clear financial insight for management decisions.
Position Summary
The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for product costing, inventory accounting, manufacturing variance analysis, financial close support, and related reporting across assigned operations. The individual will maintain cost-accounting processes, investigate variances, reconcile inventory and manufacturing accounts, and provide timely ad hoc financial and operational analysis to support management decisions. The role also supports forecasts, budgets, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives and requires strong technical accounting skills, practical manufacturing knowledge, and the ability to work directly with operational leaders.
Duties and Responsibilities
Cost Accounting and Product Costing- Maintain standard costs for raw materials, packaging, direct labor, overhead, routings, and bills of material.
- Coordinate and support planned cost updates, cost rollups, inventory revaluations, and annual standard-cost activities.
- Prepare cost estimates for new products, customer opportunities, tolling arrangements, and changes in manufacturing assumptions.
- Review work-order results and analyze purchase price, material usage, yield, labor efficiency, overhead, and production variances.
- Validate that costs reflect approved operational assumptions, including line speed, crew size, labor burden, run configuration, and packaging requirements.
- Analyze inventory aging, excess and obsolete inventory, negative inventory, location-level balances, and unusual adjustments.
- Partner with Operations on cycle counts, physical inventories, inventory adjustments, and root-cause corrective actions.
- Support accurate accounting for raw materials, work in process, finished goods, freight, and landed cost.
- Prepare and post recurring and nonrecurring journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, and supporting schedules.
- Complete assigned close responsibilities in accordance with the monthly close calendar and promptly communicate risks or delays.
- Prepare and distribute accurate daily, weekly, and monthly reporting on manufacturing performance, including production volume, labor, yield, inventory, variances, and other key plant metrics.
- Prepare clear explanations of manufacturing and inventory variances for the Controller and operating leadership.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, audit requests, and balance-sheet review.
- Develop practical dashboards, saved searches, and reports that improve visibility into cost, inventory, throughput, and plant performance.
- Partner with Operations and Supply Chain to identify cost-reduction opportunities and evaluate operational tradeoffs.
- Support NetSuite process design, testing, training, and data-quality improvements related to standard costing, inventory, work orders, routings, and reporting.
- Document repeatable procedures and strengthen internal controls without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
- Perform other finance and accounting duties as assigned by the Controller.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Management or a related field.
- Five or more years of progressive accounting or finance experience, including at least three years in manufacturing cost accounting.
- Demonstrated knowledge of standard costing, inventory accounting, variance analysis, work orders, bills of material, and manufacturing overhead.
- Experience preparing journal entries, reconciliations, close schedules, and management analysis.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience working with an integrated ERP system (NetSuite, SAP, Microsoft AX).
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results to operational leaders.
Preferred Qualifications
- NetSuite manufacturing and financial-management experience.
- Experience in food manufacturing, multi-site manufacturing, or a contract-manufacturing environment is a plus.
- Experience with cost rollups, inventory revaluation, routings, work centers, landed cost, and manufacturing reporting.
Initial Measures of Success
- Accurate and timely completion of assigned month-end close and reconciliation responsibilities.
- Reliable standard costs and timely resolution of significant manufacturing variances.
- Improved visibility into inventory balances, aging, adjustments, and obsolescence exposure.
- Consistent, documented support for costing assumptions and management reporting.
- Useful partnership with Operations and Supply Chain produces measurable improvements without weakening controls.
- Reduced dependency on the Controller for routine cost-accounting analysis and follow-up.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
MBC Companies is committed to providing equal opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, disability, political affiliation, personal appearance, family responsibilities, matriculation, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or local law. Each person is evaluated on the basis of personal skill and merit. MBC Companies’ policy regarding equal employment opportunity applies to all aspects of employment including recruitment, hiring, job assignments and promotions, working conditions, scheduling, educational and recreational programs.
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