MANUFACTURING FINANCE — NATIONWIDE
Cost Accountant Jobs
Cost Accountant roles put you on the plant floor of manufacturing finance — standard cost maintenance, BOM accuracy, inventory, and variance analysis that operations actually acts on. These are hand-curated openings written by recruiters who know the company, not scraped listings.
Cost Accountant roles are typically the 2–7 year experience sweet spot, a launch pad toward Cost Accounting Manager and Plant Controller.
What a Cost Accountant does in manufacturing
A manufacturing Cost Accountant keeps the standard cost model honest. That means maintaining standards and running the annual cost roll-up, validating BOM and routing accuracy, valuing inventory and reconciling cycle counts, and explaining the monthly variances — purchase price, material usage, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption — in language the plant can use. Many also cost new products alongside engineering. The work sits on the plant floor, not in a corporate tower: you go see why a variance happened rather than just report that it did.
Standard cost vs. job cost — and the career path
The roles here are standard-cost / product-cost positions in discrete and process manufacturing — not job-cost or project-cost work. It's a deliberate niche, and it's the sweet spot for someone with 2–7 years of experience. Cost Accountant is the launch pad: from here the track runs to Senior Cost Accountant, Cost Accounting Manager, and ultimately Plant Controller. Strong Excel (Power Query earns its keep) and hands-on ERP experience — SAP, Oracle, or a mid-market system — separate the candidates who move up fast.
Why these openings are different
These are hand-curated openings written by recruiters who know the company — the plant, the team, the hiring manager, and the honest day-to-day — not scraped listings. Salary is shared up front wherever the client allows it, and we place across manufacturing exclusively, so every role here is squarely in your lane.
3 open Cost Accountant roles
Senior Cost Accountant
A world-leading bedding manufacturer is adding a Senior Cost Accountant who will operate at the heart of high-stakes decision-making, embedded in a centralized Cost Accounting shared-service group that manages standard costing across both domestic and overseas production entities.
GLOBAL BEDDING & MATTRESS MANUFACTURER · TRINITY, NC
Senior Cost Analyst
Nearly half of a billion-dollar U.S. grocery category runs through this manufacturer's brand — and this is the dedicated manufacturing cost accounting seat sitting right at the heart of their next growth chapter.
$500M FAMILY-OWNED DAIRY MANUFACTURER · DALLAS, TX
Cost Accountant III
Take full ownership of the books at a growing defense-electronics plant in the $80M range, run the function solo without a local team beside you, and set yourself up for a Plant Controller role.
$80M AEROSPACE & DEFENSE ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURER · TULSA, OK
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