Defense technology and aerospace manufacturing company in Los Angeles is seeking a sharp Senior Cost Accountant. This role will be deeply involved in the day-to-day flow of inventory and manufacturing transactions, ensuring accuracy in a high volume, highly manual environment while helping establish the foundation for more efficient and scalable operations.

Pay : $130k-$140K+15% Bonus

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with Operations, Production, Supply Chain, and Warehouse teams to ensure accurate inventory flow and resolve issues quickly
• Support cycle counts and physical inventory, including investigation and resolution of variances
• Assist with audit readiness, ensuring documentation and processes are well supported
• Help build and improve processes in a manual environment, with a focus on scalability and efficiency
• Gross margin analysis and cost driver insights
• Flux analysis across inventory, COGS, and production activity
• Investigating and resolving cost fluctuations, with visibility to leadership
• Own and execute high-volume cost accounting transactions, including inventory movements, production entries, and cost-related journal entries
• Support month-end close, including inventory reconciliations, subledger to GL reconciliation, and manufacturing related accruals
• Execute and review cost accounting transactions in a high volume, manual environment
• Investigate manufacturing variances and partner with operations to resolve discrepancies and improve accuracy
• Review and validate Bills of Materials (BOMs) to ensure accurate and reliable product costing
• Analyze and resolve manufacturing variances (material usage, purchase price, production inefficiencies)

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
• 4+ years of experience in cost or inventory accounting within manufacturing and R&D environment
• Strong understanding of inventory flow and transactional accounting
• Experience working in manual or high-volume environments
• Ability to understand the production environment and the associated financial processes
• Knowledge of supply chain, receiving, inventory flow, operations process and manufacturing principles
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills
• Advanced Excel skills and strong attention to detail