ACARA Jobs
Cost Accounting Manager (Electronics)
Apply- ID: 555971
- Posted: 12/10/2025
- Location: San Jose, CA
- Category: Pro - Accounting/Finance
- Job Type: Direct Placement
- Duration: Direct Placement
Description
Acara Solutions has been providing manufacturing firms with our staffing services nationally for over 65 years. Our international electronics manufacturing client needs a Cost Accounting Manager for their San Jose, CA plant. This is a salaried direct position with strong benefits. Target salary range is $105K - $110K.
This is a site level Cost Accounting Manager position.
Prepare/generate daily and weekly operational metrics including, but not limited to: Shipments / Bookings, Net Production, Direct Material Issuances, Labor Incurred, Scrap Incurred/Remakes started.
- Analyze performance metrics inclusive of those above and others to understand plant performance and make recommendations to Finance Business Partner and General Manager.
- Work with operational department managers to understand cost performance, analyze period variances from standards or forecast.
- Support Finance Business Partner in preparation of Budget/Forecast/Period End Variance Analysis cycle.
- Monitor capital projects from ROI calculation, project approval stage, to capitalization.
- Support and manage all internal and external audit requests and resolve audit issues as they occur.
- Prepare Revenue Recognition testing analysis
- Coordinate with Shared Services Center on vendor/customer/GL issues as they arise.
- Coordinate with Shared Services Center and Customer Service to assist in AR collection efforts where required
- Coordinate/execute Quarterly sample audits of raw, WIP and FG material.
- Support multiple operational reporting schedules/requirements (cost savings, scorecards, QBR, capacity utilization, etc.).
- Support Finance Business Partner in preparation of quarterly RMA incident rate calculation.
- Calculate periodic RAW/WIP/FGI valuation including reserves and capitalized variance analysis
- Responsible for maintaining raw, FG and WIP standards.
- Responsible for understanding and reporting our production variances
- Responsible for cycle count testing and YE physical count with Controller.
- Prepare market financial results bridge commentary
Job Requirements
Required Skills / Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Accounting of Finance
Min 2 years of accounting experience in a manufacturing environment that includes at least 1 year of cost accounting/costing.
Min 2 years of advanced Excel
Preferred Skills / Qualifications:
Oracle
Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.