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Cost Accounting Manager

K2 Space· Operations
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Los Angeles, CA$110k - $155kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Cost Accounting Manager to assist financial leadership across manufacturing operations with a focus on manufacturing processes, product costing, and overhead pool management. Partners with Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Product Management to ensure cost visibility, financial controls, and data-driven decision-making in a complex manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a finance partner to manufacturing operations, providing insight and guidance on cost performance, efficiency, and profitability
  • Support operational leadership with financial analysis related to production volume, capacity utilization, labor efficiency, and make/buy decisions
  • Assist in the product costing process, including bills of material, labor standards, overhead application, and variance analysis
  • Analyze and explain manufacturing variances (labor, material, overhead, yield) and drive corrective actions with the operations teams
  • Help manage manufacturing overhead pools, allocation bases, and rates to ensure accuracy, transparency, and compliance
  • Assist with annual and periodic overhead rate setting, monitoring, and true-up processes
  • Assist with manufacturing budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans, including volume assumptions and cost drivers
  • Prepare detailed cost models to support new product introductions, pricing decisions, and program bids

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field
  • 4+ years of progressive experience in financial analysis, financial modeling, and forecasting
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel
  • Knowledge of GAAP accounting rules and their impact on financial modeling and reporting
  • Exceptional communication skills to interact with cross-functional teams and ability to articulate complex financial concepts in a simple manner
  • Proven ability to perform complex account reconciliations, journal entries, and financial analysis
  • Strong leadership skills with a collaborative, roll-up-your-sleeves mentality
  • Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Skills

Required:Financial analysisFinancial modelingGAAP knowledge

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off
  • medical/dental/vision coverage
  • life insurance
  • paid parental leave
  • many other perks
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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