Base Power
Cost Accounting Lead
Austin, TX · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2025
- Experience
- 7+ years of manufacturing and cost accounting experience, including owning and scaling a standard costing function and managing people and processes.
About the job
Build and scale Base’s cost accounting function and systems, overseeing inventory and production accounting for its battery manufacturing and deployment operations.
What you'll do
- Own standard costing, inventory valuation, reserves, capitalization rules, and related accounting policies and processes.
- Design inventory accounting systems and processes, including BOMs, routings, item master governance, physical counts, and ERP adjustments.
- Analyze production variances, resolve inventory discrepancies, and support month-end close and accounting for deployed battery systems.
What they ask for
- Expert knowledge of standard costing, BOMs, routings, and inventory accounting.
- Advanced ERP experience.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Strong variance and root-cause analysis experience.
Nice to have
- CMA or CPA.
- Exposure to energy hardware or other complex assemblies.
Tools
US GAAP, Netsuite, Microsoft Office, excel, word, powerpoint, ERP
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