Cost Accounting Analyst

Exponent

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Kansas City Metropolitan Area on site Until 10/7/2026 First posted August 8, 2026 Last posted August 8, 2026
Job description
High visibility Cost Accounting Analyst role in a well-established, privately held manufacturing firm in Kansas City, offering a hands-on opportunity to drive cost controls, inventory valuation, and financial insights in a stable, cash-generative environment.

Why We Like This

  • Legacy and Stability: Join a financially healthy, privately held company with a 100-year track record and strong financial stability, offering long-term support and a strong operational foundation.
  • Cross-Functional Impact: Work closely with Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance to influence cost accounting, budgeting, forecasting, and strategic decision-making.
  • Growth and Development: Opportunity to take on significant responsibility, gain exposure to both accounting and FP&A functions, and potentially advance toward controller or finance leadership roles.

Requirements

  • Strong Cost Accounting Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with standard costing, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variance analysis to manage and optimize key cost accounting functions effectively.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration Skills: Adept at partnering with Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, and Finance teams to translate complex cost drivers into actionable insights that influence operational and strategic decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and update standard costs: Oversee materials, labor, and overhead standard costing, lead variance analysis, and communicate key cost drivers to stakeholders.
  • Inventory accounting oversight: Manage inventory valuation, reserves, obsolescence, and monitor inventory levels, turns, and aging to optimize working capital.
  • Support physical inventory processes: Coordinate and support physical and cycle counts to ensure accuracy and compliance.
  • Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with operations, supply chain, procurement, and finance teams to analyze product cost drivers and identify cost improvement and operational efficiency opportunities.
  • Financial analysis and reporting: Conduct product pricing, cost, and margin analysis; support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning; deliver actionable insights to drive strategic decisions.
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Compensation (from employer):
70000–95000 USD per year

About this role

Summary

Manage standard costs, inventory, analysis, and collaborate cross-functionally to optimize costs.

Job title

Cost Accounting Analyst

Experience level

deep cost accounting expertise

Industry

manufacturing

Location requirements

Kansas City area, remote work not specified

Salary

$70k–$95k

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

standard costinginventory valuationvariance analysiscost controls

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

cost accountinginventory valuationvariance analysiscost controls
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Unknown location

On-site