Cost Accounting Manager jobs in Costa Mesa, CA

The Cost Accounting Team is one of the most important, operationally complex accounting groups at Anduril. We set Standard Cost for all products and are instrumental in defining sound business processes. We’re looking for a person to lead this high performing group. In this newly created role, you’ll be responsible for setting the strategy for the group, enhancing current processes, analysis and management reporting, and other special projects. The position will have direct and frequent interaction with different functional teams, including Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance. This person will be the “face” of the Cost Accounting team and will ultimately be responsible for producing output and analysis that assists leadership in steering the direction of the operations.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Manage accounting for both commercial inventory as well as Government Property across all business lines.
• Partner with Commercial Manufacturing and Supply Chain drive efficiency within the organization
• Lead highly skilled global team responsible for evolving the standard cost system including the analysis and disposition of variances, costing of new products, and periodic updating standard costs.
• Ensures that inventory is properly valued on the balance sheet including the establishment of required reserves.
• Help determine cost accounting system requirements to do a gap assessment on our current ERP system
• Be a super user of both the accounting and finance systems of the Company.
• Lead the company into the future including supporting IPO readiness assessment/remediation and new system(s) assessments, remediation's and/or implementations.
• Collaborate with the Operations, Engineering, and global Finance teams when preparing financial analysis of manufacturing variances, gross margin, and excess and obsolete inventory
• Identify opportunities and develop new and robust processes for increased productivity, efficiency, and continuous process improvement
• Interact with internal and external auditors, providing various analysis and audit schedules to ensure compliance with internal control procedures

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance with an emphasis in accounting
• Minimum of 10 years of experience using a standard cost model in an aerospace, Defense or manufacturing industry
• Experience implementing, enhancing and/or being a subject matter expert on ERP systems
• Expert knowledge of NetSuite, or similar accounting systems (SAP, Oracle)
• Solid understanding of WMS (Warehouse Management System) and MRP (Material Requirements Planning) systems
• Prior oversight of teams including, manager level talent.
• Strong ability to communicate across different functions and levels of the Company
• Ability to interface with with and influence C-Suite around cost accounting decisions
• Ability to think outside of the box in with a first principles mindset vs. relying purely on prior experiences and/or published best practices
• Schooled in communicating complicated technical cost accounting concepts in easy to understand language
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

$168,000 - $252,000 a year