Cost Accountant

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Build and maintain standard costs for Bullfrog and future product lines: BOM costing at the component level, direct labor rates by operation, and overhead allocation methodology.
• Own variance analysis across material price, purchase price, labor efficiency, and overhead absorption; deliver clear explanations to operations and leadership.
• Lead the manufacturing and costing module implementation within the ERP; define costing structure, work centers, routings, and cost rollups.
• Maintain inventory costing and valuation across raw materials, WIP, and finished goods; ensure accuracy of physical inventory counts and cycle counts.
• Partner with supply chain on component cost changes and their P&L impact; flag BOM and engineering change orders with cost implications before they hit the books.
• Support DCAA indirect cost rate development across fringe, manufacturing overhead, and G&A; ensure cost pools are structured correctly for government contract compliance.
• Provide cost buildups for new contract proposals and pricing decisions; model cost-to-produce at various volume scenarios as production scales.
• Support month-end close including inventory reconciliation, WIP roll-forward, COGS recognition, and manufacturing variance journals; build reporting that gives operations real-time visibility into cost performance.

Job requirements

• Hands-on experience building or running cost accounting at a company that physically manufactures hardware; not software COGS, not services.
• Proficiency with standard costing systems: setting standards, running cost rolls, analyzing variances, and explaining them to non-finance audiences.
• Direct experience implementing or heavily using the manufacturing/costing module of an ERP system such as NetSuite, SAP, Epicor, or similar.
• Solid understanding of inventory accounting across raw materials, WIP, and finished goods, including the journal entries that move between them.
• Background at a scaled, engineering-driven manufacturer in defense, aerospace, robotics, industrial hardware, or an adjacent field; someone who has seen production ramp and understands what that does to unit economics.
• Able to work cross-functionally with engineering and operations; you are a partner to the people building the product, not a back-office function.
• On-site in Austin, TX.