Cost Accountant

Job Description

Cost Accountant | Linde Advanced Material Technologies

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Linde Advanced Material Technologies, located in Speedway, IN. The company revolutionizes industries through innovative materials and surface coatings, offering metal powders, sputtering targets, and surface coatings that enhance performance across various sectors including aerospace, energy, semiconductor, automotive, and industrial industries. This role is crucial for ensuring accurate product costing, supporting operational decision-making, and driving continuous improvement initiatives within manufacturing operations.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Speedway, IN

• Mission: This person will support and maintain standard costing methodologies to ensure accurate product costing and facilitate operational and financial improvement.
• Tech Stack: Oracle, SAP, Costpoint, Microsoft Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Costing System Development: Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of standard costing methodologies across manufacturing operations, including labor, overhead, material, and routing structures.
• Data Validation & Partnership: Partner with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Accounting teams to validate bills of materials (BOMs), routings, inventory transactions, and manufacturing cost drivers for accurate product costing.
• Variance Analysis: Analyze manufacturing variances, inventory transactions, labor utilization, scrap, and overhead absorption to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for operational and financial improvement.
• ERP/MRP System Support: Support ERP/MRP costing activities, data validation, system testing, and troubleshooting efforts associated with standard cost implementation and ongoing system enhancements.
• Reporting & Decision Support: Prepare reports, cost models, financial analyses, and supporting documentation to assist leadership with operational decision-making and continuous improvement initiatives.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related field, with a focus on manufacturing finance, cost accounting, or operational analysis.
• Experience: 0–4 years of related experience with a Master’s degree, or 3+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; includes supporting manufacturing cost accounting processes such as standard costing, inventory analysis, BOM validation, labor and overhead analysis, and variance reporting.
• Skills: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including formulas, pivot tables, data validation, reporting, and financial modeling; ability to gather, clean, validate, and analyze operational and financial data from multiple cross-functional sources; strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Bonus: Lean or Six Sigma certification/training; foundational understanding of Lean Production System principles including continuous improvement, waste reduction, standard work, root cause analysis, and process optimization.