Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

The Cost Accountant is responsible for ensuring accurate inventory reporting, maintaining standard costs, analyzing manufacturing performance, and supporting financial close activities for assigned facilities and product lines. This role partners closely with operations, supply chain, and finance teams to enhance cost visibility, improve data integrity, and support organizational decision-making.

• Oversee inventory activity and material flow for assigned facilities, ensuring accurate transaction reporting and adherence to M3CE floor-reporting procedures.
• Maintain and review standard costs for raw materials, WIP, and finished goods.
• Prepare and reconcile journal entries and inventory-related accounts, including clearing accounts and offsite inventory balances, ensuring accuracy and timely resolution of discrepancies.
• Analyze manufacturing variances (material, labor, overhead, scrap, yield, etc.) and prepare operational reports to support production managers and business finance.
• Support cycle counts and physical inventories, analyze results, and recommend corrective actions to improve inventory accuracy.
• Assist in annual capacity and work center rate development, including analysis of routing performance and identification of outliers.
• Provide audit support, including participation in year-end inventory observations, preparing PBC schedules, and gathering supporting documentation.
• Maintain internal control documentation and support compliance with company policies, accounting standards, and internal procedures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve cost accounting processes, enhance data integrity, and support system or reporting improvements.
• Participate in special projects and continuous improvement initiatives related to costing, inventory, analytics, and operational performance.
• Travel to plant locations is expected up to 10%.

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field required
• Professional certifications (CPA, CMA) are a plus but not required.
• 1–3 years of professional accounting experience, ideally in cost accounting or manufacturing finance preferred.
• Strong proficiency in Excel and comfort with data analysis tools (Power BI a plus)

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 15 lbs
• Must be able to talk, listen and speak clearly on telephone

This description is a summary of principal responsibilities and is not intended to include all duties that may be assigned.

Teknor Apex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any protected status under state or federal laws. Must be 18 years of age or older to work at Teknor Apex.