Senior Cost Accountant

The role

The Senior Cost Accountant serves as a subject-matter expert for cost accounting activities. This person will own cost accounting workstreams including close, reconciliations, standard cost management, inventory valuation, and financial controls.

What you will do

• Own assigned cost accounting close workstreams end-to-end
• Prepare and post journal entries for assigned close areas
• Own sub-ledger to GL reconciliations for assigned accounts
• Define and improve close schedules, checklists, controls, and supporting workpapers
• Identify and resolve discrepancies between operational activity and financial reporting
• Provide guidance on costing methodology, inventory valuation, and related accounting practices
• Own standard cost records and methodologies
• Perform complex costing and work order analysis
• Analyze cost variances including purchase price variance
• Own inventory and cost account reconciliations for raw materials, WIP, and finished goods

Required qualifications

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 4–6 years of progressive experience in cost accounting, inventory accounting, or manufacturing accounting
• Deep understanding of inventory flows, standard costing, PPV, absorption, WIP accounting, and COGS recognition in an ERP environment
• Experience independently owning multiple cost accounting workstreams and resolving complex issues
• Experience preparing and owning journal entries, account reconciliations, and close workpapers independently
• Ability to define and improve cost accounting processes, controls, methodologies, and best practices
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, structured reconciliation models)
• Strong analytical judgment
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and lead issue resolution without direct authority

Nice to have

• Experience in manufacturing, hardware, aerospace, or complex operational environments
• Experience serving as a cost accounting subject-matter expert within a complex manufacturing organization
• Exposure to ERP environments requiring manual accounting intervention or workarounds
• Experience owning cost accounting close activities and multiple inventory and cost accounting workstreams end-to-end in a manual or semi-manual environment
• Advanced working knowledge of PPV, absorption, WIP accounting, inventory valuation, landed cost, and standard cost systems
• Ability to build and maintain scalable, audit-ready reconciliation packages and control frameworks with minimal oversight
• Experience defining cost accounting processes, documentation, controls, and workflow standards
• Experience leading Finance requirements, testing, and validation for ERP or cost accounting process enhancements
• Experience mentoring peers or providing technical guidance across Finance and operational teams
• Oracle Fusion experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity plan
• Discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick time
• Company holidays including a year-end shutdown
• Paid parental leave
• HMO and Premium PPO health and wellness options
• Company-sponsored life insurance
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Reimbursement opportunities for learning and development initiatives

Before you apply

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology that is subject to US export controls

About the company

Divergent is building the new industrial age. Their integrated engineering and manufacturing platform transforms complex designs into production-ready solutions for automotive OEMs and U.S. aerospace and defense companies.