MANUFACTURING FINANCE — NATIONWIDE
Director of Cost Accounting Jobs
Director of Cost Accounting roles set the cost strategy across multiple plants — standardizing processes, building teams, and giving leadership a single source of truth on product cost. These occasional, senior searches are presented with the full context behind them.
Director-level cost accounting roles carry multi-site scope and executive visibility.
What a Director of Cost Accounting owns
A Director of Cost Accounting sets cost strategy across multiple plants. The mandate is to standardize the costing process site to site, build and develop the cost teams, and give leadership a single, trusted source of truth on product cost and margin. That spans standard-cost governance, inventory and BOM policy, ERP and reporting standardization, and the analysis behind pricing, footprint, and capital decisions. It's a leadership seat with executive visibility, not a hands-on close role.
Who these searches are for
These are occasional, senior searches — the firm places Directors and Senior Directors of Cost Accounting and Plant Finance. Candidates typically bring plant controllership or multi-site cost leadership behind them, a CPA/CMA or MBA, and a track record of standardizing process across sites. The scope is broad and the visibility real; these roles frequently report into the divisional or corporate finance leadership team.
Why these openings are different
Because they're occasional and senior, Director-level searches are presented with the full context behind them — the multi-plant footprint, the mandate, and what leadership actually needs — by recruiters who work manufacturing finance exclusively.
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