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Unusual Machines

Robot type
Drone
Location
OrlandoFloridaUSA
Job type
Business Operations
Posted
Sep 4, 2026
Salary
$95,000–$115,000 a year
Full-time

Cost Accountant

Job description

We’re expanding into enterprise and defense - bringing our obsessive attention to performance, design, and U.S.-based manufacturing into high-stakes environments like search and rescue and military innovation. With several of our products already approved by the Defense Innovation Unit, we’re solving procurement issues for customers who demand speed, agility, and compliance.

If you love working at the intersection of community, content, and cutting-edge technology, you’ll feel right at home here.

The Cost Accountant will be responsible for inventory and manufacturing cost accounting across Unusual Machines' growing operations.

This is a hands-on role for an experienced cost accountant who can…

Job responsibilities

  • Own inventory and manufacturing-related accounting activities, including raw materials, work-in-process (WIP), finished goods, inventory in transit, COGS, and related reconciliations.
  • Maintain and improve product costing, including standard costs, BOMs, labor and overhead rates, landed cost, and other manufacturing cost inputs.
  • Analyze purchase price, material usage, labor, overhead/absorption, scrap, production, and other manufacturing variances and communicate the underlying business drivers.
  • Reconcile inventory systems and physical inventory activity to NetSuite and the general ledger; investigate discrepancies and drive timely resolution.
  • Develop and maintain excess and obsolete (E&O) inventory, inventory aging, and other reserve analyses in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
  • Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, Purchasing, and Engineering on BOM accuracy, engineering changes, purchasing activity, inventory movements, production issues, cycle counts, and physical inventories.
  • Establish and improve accounting for landed costs, including freight, tariffs, duties, customs, and other applicable inventory acquisition costs.
  • Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close, including inventory and COGS journal entries, reconciliations, roll-forwards, variance analysis, and audit-ready supporting schedules.

Job requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
  • 8+ years of progressive accounting experience, including meaningful manufacturing cost and inventory accounting experience.
  • Strong understanding of inventory valuation, COGS, raw materials, WIP, finished goods, standard costing, BOMs, labor, overhead, landed cost, and manufacturing variances.
  • Experience reconciling inventory subledgers or operational systems to the general ledger and investigating inventory discrepancies.
  • Experience with cycle counts, physical inventories, E&O reserves, inventory adjustments, and manufacturing close processes.
  • Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP as it relates to inventory and manufacturing accounting.
  • Strong ERP experience; hands-on NetSuite experience strongly preferred.
  • Advanced Excel and data-analysis skills with the ability to work effectively with large datasets.
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