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Consulting
Hybrid up to 1 Day Onsite
Full time
Westbury New York United States
Consulting
On Demand Talent
City
Westbury
Country
United States
State/Province
New York
About This Role
This Director of Cost Accounting role leads the development and enforcement of product standard costing policies and provides data-driven insights to support pricing, profitability, and operational decisions. The position partners cross-functionally with manufacturing, supply chain, and procurement teams to analyze cost structures, inventory trends, and labor efficiency, while driving process improvements and financial controls across multiple sites. Reporting to the VP of Finance, it also manages variance analysis, inventory reserves, and margin reporting, leveraging advanced systems and tools to optimize business performance.
What You Will Work On
  • Reporting to the Vice President of Finance - leads the effort across the company to control (design and set policy) for all aspects of product standard costing.
  • Drives efforts, cross-functionally, to ensure the needs of the standard cost system are accomplished and provide the business with data to drive decisions.
  • Supports product gross margin analysis, via costing data trends. 
  • Analyzes monthly manufacturing results, to ensure overhead rates are in line with budget expectations. Including: spend, volume, mix. Works with site finance and consolidates information.
  • Explains variances: volume, spending – as it pertains to manufacturing output – consolidated and via input from site finance.
  • Delineates site cost structure into fixed and variable – to aid with use in product and product line profitability analysis (and) cost setting.
  • Leads the effort of supplying product costs for purposes of price setting on new business items
  • Builds ad hoc models to understand profitability impact for things such as Excess & Obsolete inventory
  • Drives change, working cross-functionally, to improve business results through data driven metrics 
  • Measures direct labor efficiency and productivity
  • Creates and maintains labor models, understanding: utilization of available hours, and standards deviations. 
  • Creates labor reporting to fully understand proper labor sizing through detailed hours reporting: comparing actual to standard
  • Works closely with Industrial Engineering to ensure labor standards are accurate and representative, through labor routing reviews
  • Maintains proper inventory reserves and fully manages monthly variance capitalization schedules (capitalizing period variances into inventory – releasing them to the P/L associated with inventory turns.
  • Reports on inventory levels, setting and measuring target progress and identifying impactful trends to working capital
  • Drives the Supply Chain to achieve needed inventory levels, while not damaging customer satisfaction ratings
  • Works closely as a Sourcing / Procurement Financial Business partner, providing purchasing and vendor metric performance to a team of buyers and commodity managers.
  • Also partners with and supports NY manufacturing (two sites) with financial reporting, metric tracking, cost controls and general overall financial business partnering with site functional leaders. 
  • Measures and reports out on PPV (trending and analysis)
  • Leads and mentors subordinates, both at the corporate level and site level, setting goals and objectives that align with the greater corporate G&O’s
  • Uses Oracle/One Stream for FP&A and Excel

What You Will Bring
  • Bachelors degree in Finance, Business or Accounting (with manufacturing principles and prior experience a must)
  • Masters degree desired (compliments in the area of engineering / operations)
  • 12+ years of financial / accounting experience - manufacturing environment a must
  • Managerial level experience a must - well versed in all aspects of operational finance / accounting, with site finance partnership located in various manufacturing sites
  • Well organized, structured individual who demonstrates the ability to multi-task and also project manage plus monthly maintaining of costing and inventory transactional information 
  • Strong ability to work cross-functionally and influence functional areas of the business, based on data-driven analytics
  • Via data manipulation (consolidation and analysis), explain and clearly define manufacturing and inventory cost trends
  • Strong with systems and process improvement
  • Alteryx a plus
  • Able to be onsite hybrid ideally in Long Island, NY (or Greenville SC, Miami Florida or Los Angeles CA)

What You Can Expect
  • Variety of workplace arrangements including hybrid, remote, onsite.   
  • Compensation commensurate with employee qualifications, experience, and other factors including geographic location, market, and operational factors.  
  • Pay Range: $60-80/hr (DOE)  
  • Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life insurance, Disability insurance, 401(k) savings plan, Employee Stock Purchase plan, Professional development program, Paid Time Off, Paid Sick Time (in geographies where legally required)
  • An inspirational place for you to do your best work, be engaged in meaningful ways, and continually develop the skills, competencies, and qualities that set our team apart.   
What We Do
At RGP, we're creating a future where businesses produce their best work without constraints. We've built a global network of over 2,600 experts across four regions, providing a comprehensive suite of solutions across on-demand talent, next-generation consulting, and outsourced services to support organizations at every stage of their growth journey. Trusted by Fortune 100 companies and emerging disruptors alike, we challenge conventional ways of working, drive growth, and pave the way for long-term success through bold innovation and fearless collaboration.

Our values guide everything we do and strengthen our commitment to people. By combining smart processes, human-centered design, and advanced technology, we celebrate our team's excellence and ensure we grow together. We believe in the power of continuous learning and development to drive both individual and organizational success. It’s time to rethink how work gets done. Dare to Work Differently® with RGP.

RGP is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected trait and encourage all applicants to apply. 
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