Director or Senior Director of Cost Accounting
Vaco LLC
Sunnyvale, CA
Our client, a high-growth AI hardware and infrastructure company, is hiring a Director or Senior Director of Cost Accounting to build and scale cost accounting and inventory processes in a rapidly evolving environment.
Location:
This position is based in Sunnyvale, CA, and requires three days per week onsite.
Job Description:
This is a highly visible leadership role with significant influence across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and FP&A, and will play a key part in strengthening controls and readiness for external reporting.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable cost accounting strategies aligned with company growth and public-company readiness
- Establish costing policies, procedures, and internal controls in partnership with Supply Chain and Operations
- Lead month-end and quarter-end close activities for cost accounting, inventory, and related reserves
- Own product, system, and service costing methodologies across complex hardware systems and compute infrastructure
- Manage cost allocations to products, services, and programs with clear audit-ready support
- Oversee inventory valuation, excess and obsolete analysis, and manufacturing accruals
- Partner with Manufacturing and Supply Chain to analyze BOMs, yields, labor, overhead, and supplier pricing
- Support capacity planning, volume analysis, and make-or-buy decisions
- Develop and maintain cost center budgets, headcount models, and allocation methodologies
- Own accounting and cost modeling for fixed assets related to the data center and compute infrastructure
- Establish capitalization policies, useful lives, depreciation approaches, and impairment considerations
- Create and maintain compute and infrastructure cost allocation frameworks covering usage, overhead, depreciation, and support costs
- Support unit economics, margin analysis, and pricing decisions for infrastructure and services offerings
- Ensure compliance with GAAP, SOX expectations, and internal policies
- Prepare costing and inventory analyses to support external auditors and reporting requirements
- Contribute to cross-functional initiatives and ad hoc analyses as business priorities evolve
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 10 or more years of progressive cost accounting experience in manufacturing, hardware, or other capital-intensive environments
- Strong knowledge of GAAP, inventory accounting, costing methodologies, and fixed asset accounting
- Experience building complex allocation models and supporting audit-ready documentation and controls
- Hands-on ERP and manufacturing systems experience, including platforms such as Oracle or NetSuite
Compensation:
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors, including but not limited to:
- The individual’s skill sets, experience, and training;
- Licensure and certifications;
- Office location and other geographic considerations;
- Other business and organizational needs.
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
EEO Notice
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact
HR@vaco.com
.Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.
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Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.