Cost Accounting Manager
- Mississauga, ON, Canada
$60 to $70 CAD / hour · Contract
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Job details
- Pay
- $60 to $70 CAD / hour
- Job type
- Contract
- Apply by
- Experience
- 4+ years of dedicated standard costing experience within manufacturing.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Our client, a leader in the manufacturing industry, is looking for a Cost Accounting Manager. Reporting to the Controller, you will serve as the financial co-pilot to local plant leadership while acting as the functional finance lead for high-priority projects.
Responsibilities:
- Re-engineer and maintain standard costs, labor/overhead absorption rates, and Bills of Materials (BOMs) across a high-volume, multi-shift plant environment.
- Investigate purchase price, usage, scrap, and labor variances; partner directly with production supervisors to translate floor metrics into margin improvements.
- Serve as the primary cost accounting SME during special projects.
- Lead month-end inventory reconciliations, resolve historical costing discrepancies across sales and operations, and oversee physical inventory counts.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of dedicated standard costing experience within manufacturing.
- CPA designation.
- Hands-on experience with mid-to-tier-1 ERP platforms i.e. Microsoft Dynamics.
- Ability to independently drive initiatives on the plant floor while effectively reporting results to remote corporate leadership.
If you’re interested in discussing this further, send your resume in word to Michelle Campanaro, CPA at michelle.campanaro@randstad.ca.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Maintain standard costs, absorption rates, and bills of materials, and investigate purchasing, usage, scrap, and labor variances to identify margin improvements. Lead cost accounting for special projects, month-end inventory reconciliations, resolution of historical costing discrepancies, and physical inventory counts.
Requirements
Requires at least four years of dedicated standard costing experience in manufacturing and a CPA designation. Candidates should have hands-on experience with a mid-tier or tier-one ERP platform such as Microsoft Dynamics and be able to lead initiatives on the plant floor while reporting to remote corporate leadership.
Skills
- Standard Costing
- Cost Accounting
- Labor and Overhead Absorption
- Bills of Materials
- Variance Analysis
- Inventory Reconciliation
- Physical Inventory Management
- ERP Systems
- Microsoft Dynamics
- Manufacturing Finance
- Project Leadership
- Plant Operations Partnership
- Margin Improvement
- Financial Reporting
Visa sponsorship
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Hiring contact
Michelle Campanaro
Hiring contact email
michelle.campanaro@randstad.ca
Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Manufacturing
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Cost Accounting
- Standard Costing
- Manufacturing
- CPA
- Microsoft Dynamics
- ERP
- Labor Absorption
- Overhead Absorption
- Bills of Materials
- BOM
- Purchase Price Variance
- Usage Variance
- Scrap Variance
- Labor Variance
- Inventory Reconciliation
- Physical Inventory Counts
- Month-End Close
- Historical Costing Discrepancies
- Margin Improvement
- Plant Operations
- Production Supervisors
- Special Projects
- Financial Reporting
- Multi-Shift Operations
- Controller