Senior Cost Accountant

The role

The Senior Cost Accountant will support and build the cost accounting function and its underlying systems. This person will partner with operations, engineering, supply chain, and finance teams to support production ramp-up and ensure accurate financial data capture.

What you will do

• Support and maintain standard cost methodologies for materials, labor, and overhead.
• Contribute to inventory accounting system and process design.
• Help establish and maintain cost accounting policies and processes in accordance with US GAAP.
• Collaborate with teams to resolve inventory discrepancies and improve internal controls.
• Support inventory valuation, reserves, and capitalization rules for tooling and builds.
• Conduct routine analysis of material and production variances.
• Support physical inventory counts and own related adjustments in ERP.
• Support month-end close through ownership of inventory and related production accounts.
• Support the accounting of deployed battery systems.
• Serve as an educator to the business on key accounting rules and practices.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of manufacturing and cost accounting experience.
• Solid knowledge of standard costing, BOMs, routings, and inventory accounting.
• ERP experience.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Variance and root cause analysis experience.
• Clear communication skills, with the ability to partner across functional groups.

Nice to have

• CMA or CPA
• NetSuite
• Exposure to energy hardware or other complex assemblies
• Experience or desire to operate in a high-growth environment

About the company

Base is America’s next-generation power company rebuilding the foundation of modern civilization by deploying a vast network of distributed batteries. The accounting team builds the financial foundation that makes scaling possible.