Accounting Manager

Job Description

The Accounting Manager is responsible for leading all accounting and financial reporting activities at the manufacturing site. This role ensures accurate financial records, supports operational decision-making, maintains strong internal controls, and partners with plant leadership to improve profitability and operational performance. The Accounting Manager oversees the monthly close process, cost accounting, inventory valuation, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance with company policies and accounting standards.

What You’ll Do

Financial Accounting & Reporting

• Support the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes.
• Prepare accurate and timely financial statements and management reports.
• Review journal entries, account reconciliations, and balance sheet analyses.
• Ensure compliance with GAAP/IFRS and corporate accounting policies.
• Analyze financial results and explain variances to budget and forecast.

Cost Accounting & Inventory

• Oversee standard costing and product cost analysis.
• Maintain the integrity of inventory valuation and costing methodologies.
• Analyze manufacturing variances including labor, material, and overhead.
• Support annual standard cost updates and cost roll processes.
• Monitor inventory transactions and ensure accurate financial reporting of inventory.

Manufacturing Finance Support

• Partner with plant operations to improve productivity and profitability.
• Provide financial analysis for production efficiency, scrap, labor utilization, and overhead absorption.
• Support capital investment evaluations and ROI analyses.
• Participate in operational meetings and provide financial guidance to plant leadership.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Prepare monthly forecasts and financial projections.
• Monitor spending against budgets and recommend corrective actions.
• Support long-range financial planning.

Internal Controls & Compliance

• Maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, SOX requirements (if applicable), and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate internal and external audits.
• Develop and implement process improvements to strengthen financial controls.

Qualifications

Basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Minimum 3 years of manufacturing accounting or cost accounting experience.
• A minimum of five (5) years of Accounting/Finance experience
• A minimum of one (1) year of leadership experience
• A minimum of one (1) year experience with forecasting and budgeting cycles.
• Larger ERP systems accounting experience (Oracle Cloud experience preferred).
• Strong proficiency of Microsoft Office and Excel, including pivot tables, formulas and advanced Excel skills.

Preferred

• Five (5) plus years’ experience in Manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, industrial products, consumer goods, food processing, or chemical manufacturing.
• Experience supporting capital projects and fixed asset accounting.
• Experience with standard costing, BOMs (Bills of Materials), routings, and production reporting.
• Experience with EPM (OneStream, Oracle) consolidation systems.

Additional Information

• Primarily based in an office environment at a manufacturing facility with regular interaction on the production floor.
• Travel may be required for up to 10% of the time
• All positions require use of information or access to hardware which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms regulations. All applicants must be U.S. Persons within the meaning of ITAR. ITAR defines a U.S. Person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident, Political Asylee, or Refugee.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment requiring immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.”
• No relocation benefit is offered for this position. Only candidates that currently reside within the immediate geographical area (50 miles/80 kilometers) of the {Location} facility will be considered.

Compensation base pay range $80,000-$100,000 plus bonus eligible

Interview Requirements And Candidate Privacy Notice

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

All Job Posting Locations

Allenton

Remote Type

On-Site

EEO Statement

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees.

Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of an applicant's race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, marital status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other status protected by law.

Eaton believes in second chance employment. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction history will be considered regardless of their arrest or conviction history, consistent with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act and other local laws.

You do not need to disclose your conviction history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Eaton is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report.

Accommodations

To request a disability-related reasonable accommodation to assist you in your job search, application, or interview process, please call us at to discuss your specific need. Only accommodation requests will be accepted by this phone number.

#J-18808-Ljbffr

Full job description from WhatJobs. Apply for this role →