Senior Cost Accountant (Manufacturing)

Location: Torrance, California, United States; hybrid schedule with four days onsite and one day remote.

Salary: $109,240–$150,210 USD annually.

Company

Divergent develops integrated engineering and manufacturing solutions for demanding automotive, aerospace, and defense applications.

What you will do

• Own assigned cost accounting close workstreams, including journal entries, accruals, reclassifications, and sub-ledger to general ledger reconciliations.
• Manage standard cost records, costing methodologies, inventory valuation, work order analysis, and cost variance analysis.
• Reconcile raw materials, work in progress, finished goods, inventory movements, production data, and cost accounts.
• Develop audit-ready workpapers, documentation, close schedules, controls, and scalable cost accounting workflows.
• Analyze freight, duties, outside processing, landed costs, PPV, absorption, and related manufacturing metrics.
• Partner with Supply Chain, Production, Program Management, Finance, and IT on issue resolution and ERP enhancements.

Requirements

• Ability to lawfully access information and technology subject to US export controls.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
• 4–6 years of progressive experience in cost, inventory, or manufacturing accounting; additional experience is welcome.
• Strong knowledge of inventory flows, standard costing, PPV, absorption, WIP accounting, COGS recognition, and ERP environments.
• Experience independently managing journal entries, reconciliations, close workpapers, controls, and complex accounting issues.
• Advanced Excel skills, analytical judgment, and the ability to lead cross-functional issue resolution without direct authority.

Nice to have

• Experience in manufacturing, hardware, aerospace, or other complex operational environments.
• Experience with landed cost, inventory valuation, standard cost systems, and audit-ready control frameworks.
• Experience leading ERP requirements, testing, and validation or mentoring finance and operations peers.
• Oracle Fusion experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment with regular collaboration across Finance, Supply Chain, Production, Program Management, and IT.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, year-end shutdown, and paid parental leave.
• HMO and Premium PPO health plans, company-sponsored life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Competitive salary, equity plan, and discretionary results-based incentive bonus opportunities.
• Learning and development reimbursement in a collaborative, high-growth manufacturing environment.