Cost Accounting Manager

Job Title: Finance Business Partner Manager Title: Controller

FLSA Status: Exempt Department: 8100-Office Administrative

Updated: 9/17/2026

Job Summary:

Business partner for leadership, focused on forecasting and planning processes, assisting operations leadership to drive shareholder value, managing the Company cost accounting and product profitability methodology, processes, and ongoing analysis. Assist in preparation of financial, management, board, and ad hopresentations. Complete financial analysis for manufacturing and supply chain activities, and capital investment proposals. Serve as a cross-functional collaborator and build and expand tools to quantify key drivers of financial results.

Job Role/Specific Responsibilities:

• Financial Planning & Analysis

• Direct and oversee enterprise-wide financial planning process function, including annual and periodic financial planning activities. Facilitate optimization efforts and drive continuous improvement.

• Support demand planning process, merge top-down and bottoms-up forecasts, facilitate alignment with sales, operations, and executive leadership, and track accuracy of forecast inputs to drive improvement and accuracy.

• Work with business leaders to achieve financial goals, utilizing financial data, modelling and visualization methods and tools.

• Provide actionable insights to Company financial and operational management, create financial models to assist decision-making, and navigate large amounts of data and information.

• Establish and maintain strong, cross-functional relationships with business leaders and teams across the organization.

• Serve as a liaison for senior management to relay financial planning and business needs/issues.

• Manage and develop Company financial analysis resources.

• Product Profitability and Operations Support

• Develop models to accurately forecast and plan product costs and operations expenses. Support commercial and operation leadership budget and forecast processes.

• Leverage tools and analytical skills to quantify key cost drivers and root-cause issues of variances.

• Guide and support leaders in the assessment of capital expenditures, prepare and/or review financial support, ensuring compliance with company policies. After implementation, evaluate realized savings of completed projects and compare them to initial assumptions.

• Work with leadership to determine, recommend, and implement cost-effective solutions to issues and challenges.

• Support cost control efforts and develop reporting to track actualization of anticipated savings.

• Perform month-end and year-end closing activities as directed.

• Other/ Special Projects

• Provide support to peers and teammates leading finance, commercial, and operations teams, assisting with projects, providing those teams with additional capacity for overflow work requirements.

• Work on short- and long-term projects as assigned to contribute to overall success of strategic initiatives.

• Other activities as assigned.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Influence - build the right relationships to gain support around function's vision and key priorities. Ability to establish credibility, be decisive, and able to recognize and support the organization''s preferences and priorities.
• Time Management - balance the allocation of time to enable realization of vision.
• Leadership/Management - strong administrative skills. Proven ability to recruit, train, and motivate personnel to balance staffing strength with profitability and growth. Participative style who advocates a team concept. High energy level.
• Analytical Capability - strong analytical and reasoning abilities, plus superior numeric skills.
• Interpersonal - Well-developed interpersonal skills. Ability to get along well with diverse personalities, tactful, mature, flexible.
• Agility - comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with normal activities. Able to effectively prioritize own work and work of others.
• Communication - strong written and verbal skills. Able to convey complex financial matters to non-financial professionals.
• Results Oriented - ability to balance profit and other business considerations.

Education and Experience:

• B.S. degree in Finance and/or Accounting.
• 10 years' minimum experience ideally gained through increasingly responsible positions.
• Affiliation with successful manufacturing companies.
• Working knowledge of automated accounting systems and well-developed financial analysis capabilities.
• Extensive experience utilizing Microsoft Office (Excel) and ERP systems.
• Familiarity with AI tools and their use.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to talk and hear to enable effective communication.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• Vision abilities required by this job to read and write.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be added at any time with or without notice.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled