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Cost Accounting Manager Jobs
Cost Accounting Manager roles lead the cost function for a plant or region — owning the standard cost process, mentoring cost analysts, and translating floor-level variance into decisions leadership can act on. Each role here comes with the real context behind the job description.
Cost Accounting Managers bridge senior cost accounting and plant controllership, often a direct step toward the Controller seat.
What a Cost Accounting Manager owns
A Cost Accounting Manager owns the standard-cost process for a plant or a region. That means running the annual cost roll-up, governing BOM and routing accuracy, setting inventory and cycle-count discipline, and turning the monthly variance story into decisions leadership acts on. Just as important, the role leads people — mentoring cost analysts and building the bench — and partners with operations on margin, make-vs-buy, and continuous-improvement projects. It's where cost accounting stops being a task and becomes a function you're accountable for.
Where it leads
This seat bridges senior cost accounting and plant controllership. For most of the people we place, it's the direct step before the Plant Controller or Plant Finance Manager role — the point where costing depth is paired with team leadership and P&L exposure. A CPA or CMA and strong ERP experience (SAP and Oracle lead) are common, and the managers who advance fastest are the ones already thinking like the Controller they're about to become.
Why these openings are different
Every Cost Accounting Manager role on this board is a real, open search with the context that matters — the team you'd lead, the hiring manager's real priorities, the systems, and honest expectations — written by recruiters who work manufacturing finance exclusively.
4 open Cost Accounting Manager roles
Cost Accounting Manager
A food producer has elevated this Cost Accounting Manager seat beyond its former transactional scope, and whoever lands it will create the standards, models and weekly reporting its Florida plants have never had a finance person to deliver.
MULTI-PLANT FOOD MANUFACTURER · WELLINGTON / BELLE GLADE, FL
Sr. Cost Accounting Manager
A roughly $2 billion private-equity-backed materials manufacturer wants a costing leader with true multi-plant standard cost ownership who would rather build the function than inherit one.
$2B PRIVATE-EQUITY-BACKED MATERIALS MANUFACTURER · ATLANTA, GA
Cost Accounting Manager
This chair opened up because its previous occupant earned a promotion — so now there's room for someone ready to own cost accounting from start to finish inside a rapidly expanding, FDA-regulated plasma-therapeutics maker, and to climb as the company climbs.
FAST-SCALING FDA-REGULATED PLASMA-DERIVED THERAPEUTICS MANUFACTURER · BOCA RATON, FL
Cost Accounting Manager
Sitting at the heart of how a multi-billion-dollar manufacturer measures and manages the true cost of building its products, this is a role with real influence over the numbers that matter.
GLOBAL BEDDING & MATTRESS MANUFACTURER · TRINITY, NC
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