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Cost Accountant
Job Location:
Job Location:
Denver, CO - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 75000 - 95000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
3 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
31 August 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Description
Position Summary:
RK Mission Critical is seeking a Cost Accountant with strong manufacturing cost accounting experience to support the transition from Viewpoint Vista to IFS. This role is responsible for maintaining and analyzing standard costs reconciling cost variances and ensuring accuracy across project and product costing. A key focus of this position is proactively managing labor cost accuracy by using variance analysis to regularly evaluate and update standard labor rates. The goal is to keep recurring labor variances minimal explainable and aligned with actual operating conditions.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Maintain review and update standard costs in IFS including labor materials burden overhead inventory work orders and manufactured products.
- Analyze labor material overhead burden inventory and work order variances on a weekly and/or monthly basis in alignment with payroll cycles and financial close requirements.
- Perform payroll and labor variance reconciliations to identify recurring gaps between standard labor rates and actual labor costs.
- Recommend and support updates to standard labor rates when trends indicate misalignment due to wage changes labor mix overtime or burden assumptions.
- Ensure standard costing structures accurately reflect operational realities and production processes.
- Prepare and post journal entries to allocate clear and reclassify variance accounts as needed.
- Partner with operations project managers and payroll teams to validate cost drivers and improve cost accuracy.
- Support ERP transition activities including data validation testing and process alignment within IFS.
- Assist in month-end close activities related to inventory WIP and manufacturing cost reporting.
Accountability
- Comply with all company policies procedures and safety requirements.
- Support and maintain all company safety and health programs and immediately report unsafe conditions.
Minimum Physical Requirements
- While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand sit talk hear and use hands and fingers to operate a computer telephone and office equipment.
- Occasionally may need to reach stoop or kneel.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision due to computer work.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in accounting.
- 35 years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing fabrication production or industrial environment.
- Strong understanding of standard costing variance analysis inventory valuation work order costing and manufacturing cost flows.
- Experience reconciling labor material overhead burden inventory and manufacturing variance accounts.
- Ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to non-accounting stakeholders.
- Experience with manufacturing cost accounting and standard cost maintenance
- Experience with labor material overhead and burden variance analysis
- Ability to translate variance insights into actionable improvements (e.g. labor rate updates)
- ERP adaptability and continuous improvement mindset
- Strong analytical reconciliation and problem-solving skills
- Effective cross-functional communication
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with ERP systems preferably IFS or similar manufacturing/accounting platforms.
- Experience supporting ERP implementations or system transitions.
- Familiarity with project-based manufacturing or engineer-to-order environments.
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables data analysis modeling).
Acknowledgement:
The above description covers the principal duties and responsibilities of the job. By signing this description I confirm that I have had my skills reviewed by RK Industries hiring personnel I understand the job description and I am competent to perform the listed tasks.
RK Industries LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin sexual orientation gender identity disability protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law
About Company
RK Water provides professional turnkey water treatment solutions for any project. Get in touch at our Colorado office.
