Cost Accounting Manager

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Cost Accounting Manager

Accounting Full Time Westfield, IN, US

2 days ago Requisition ID: 1117

Founded in 1961, we are a growing manufacturing company. IMMI® is the trusted, global leader of safety solutions, helping to protect millions of lives every day. For over sixty-five years, IMMI has led the way in developing, designing, testing, and manufacturing innovative safety restraints and systems. IMMI’s safety products are found worldwide on car seats, heavy trucks, school buses, recreational/off road, military, fire/EMS, motor coach, and construction vehicles. IMMI recently became an ESOP giving team members the opportunity to become owners and share in the company’s future success. IMMI is a dynamic organization serving more than eleven markets and hundreds of customers across multiple countries. IMMI is also home to IMMI VIP steering wheels and CAPE®, the world’s leading state-of-the-art testing facility.

IMMI, a growing global, employee-owned manufacturing company, is seeking a Cost Accounting Manager to join our corporate headquarters in Westfield, Indiana. This highly visible role combines technical cost accounting leadership with the opportunity to influence business decisions across IMMI’s global operations.

The Cost Accounting Manager will lead the development and execution of costing strategies, strengthen global standard costing methodologies, and ensure the accuracy and integrity of product costs, inventory, and manufacturing variances. This position is highly collaborative and offers significant exposure to senior leaders and cross-functional teams across operations, engineering, supply chain, sales, and finance.

In addition to leading and developing the cost accounting team, this individual will drive root-cause analysis, process improvement, and corrective action. As IMMI continues to invest in technology, operational improvement, and global growth, the Cost Accounting Manager will help streamline processes, lead change, and shape the future state of the costing organization. The ideal candidate is a curious, hands‑on leader who values integrity, collaboration, ownership and innovation.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities/ Essential Functions:

Costing Governance & Accountability

• Build and maintain “Costing Super User” expertise in item costing, transfer pricing, work-in-process (WIP), and inventory transactions.
• Ensure accurate Oracle costing and inventory accounting setups, with a strong focus on correct debit/credit impacts and end-to-end transaction flow integrity.
• Maintain and approve documentation for material movement and manufacturing accounting (DR/CR logic), ensuring shared understanding across the cost team.
• Develop and advance global costing strategies and governance standards that support accurate product costs, consistent decision-making, and the company’s evolving business needs.
• Translate complex costing information into clear recommendations for senior leaders across operations, engineering, supply chain, sales, and finance.
• Provide costing leadership for acquisitions, new entities, greenfield operations, and other global growth initiatives.
• Help define the future-state costing organization, including systems, processes, controls, reporting, and team capabilities.
• Lead continuous improvement of IMMI’s global costing systems, processes, controls, and reporting capabilities, including opportunities to simplify work, improve visibility, leverage technology, and support evolving business needs.

Cost Execution & Maintenance

• Develop and maintain expertise in product costing across all IMMI organizations, supporting Finance, Operations, and Sales.
• Manage the global standard cost update process, including review and approval of intercompany and intracompany budgets.
• Lead the calculation and maintenance of standard labor and overhead rates.
• Review and approve standard material costs and the material budget.

Variance Analysis & Root-Cause Leadership

• Lead and participate in job-close variance analysis, material mix analysis, labor variances, manufacturing overhead variances, and production efficiency analysis.
• Drive the development, tracking, and foll