Senior Accountant

The role

You will build and own the cost accounting function as the company scales space infrastructure products. You will establish processes, methodologies, and controls for inventory, COGS, and hardware production costs.

What you will do

• Build and own the cost accounting function including processes, methodologies, controls, and reporting.
• Own cost accounting activities across month-end and quarter-end close.
• Develop and maintain standard costing methodologies for purchased and manufactured hardware.
• Analyze purchase price, material, labor, overhead, absorption, scrap, and other variances.
• Own inventory accounting and valuation across raw materials, WIP, and finished goods.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Manufacturing to reconcile operational activity to the ERP.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Engineering, and Program teams to translate activity into financial insights.
• Serve as the Finance owner for cost accounting systems and continuous improvement.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience in cost accounting, inventory accounting, or manufacturing accounting
• Strong understanding of manufacturing cost accounting including standard costing, inventory valuation, WIP, COGS, PPV, absorption, manufacturing variances, and inventory flows within an ERP environmen
• Ability to independently own cost accounting close activities, journal entries, reconciliations, and complex analyses
• Highly analytical and comfortable operating autonomously in a fast-paced environment
• Strong Excel skills
• Ability to build processes, solve ambiguous problems, and partner effectively across Finance and Operations

Nice to have

• Experience in aerospace, defense, hardware, automotive, electronics, or another complex manufacturing environment, particularly within a startup or rapidly scaling organization
• Experience building or significantly improving cost accounting processes, controls, standard costing methodologies, and reporting
• Experience partnering directly with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, and other operational teams
• Experience implementing, configuring, or improving cost accounting and inventory workflows within an ERP system

About the company

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company building a global network of phased array and parabolic ground stations. They design, build, and deploy scalable systems for satellite missions.