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POSITION OVERVIEW
The Manufacturing Cost Accountant partners closely with Operations, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, and Finance to maintain accurate product costing and support manufacturing decision-making. This role is responsible for developing and maintaining standard costs, labor rates, overhead absorption rates, routing costs, inventory valuation, and manufacturing variance analysis. The position plays a key role in ensuring product costs accurately reflect manufacturing processes and operational realities.
This is an onsite position located in Holland, MI. It is not open to hybrid or remote work at this time.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Maintain and update standard costs for manufactured products.
Perform annual and interim standard cost rolls.
Analyze the impact of changes in labor standards, material costs, routings, manufacturing methods, and overhead allocation methodologies.
Support new product costing and profitability analysis.
Support labor and overhead rate development by determining and maintaining direct labor rates and burdened labor rates, calculating manufacturing overhead absorption rates, analyzing actual versus standard labor and overhead spending, and assessing labor utilization and capacity impacts on product costs.
Review and validate manufacturing routings and work center assumptions, evaluating routing changes and impact on product margins.
Partner with Operations and Industrial Engineering to understand labor content and assumptions, machine utilization, cycle times, and staffing assumptions.
Support implementation of labor and overhead costing within ERP routing structures, inventory valuation, month-end close, cycle count, and physical inventory reviews
Analyze manufacturing variances including labor, material, purchase price, scrap, yield, and overhead absorption.
Ensure compliance with GAAP inventory costing requirements.
Prepare financial analysis including monthly manufacturing performance reporting, and support budgeting, forecasting, and annual operating plan processes.
Analyze product and customer profitability and identify cost reduction opportunities and operational improvements.
Other duties as assigned.
HOW YOU’LL DO IT
Attention to Detail - Ensuring information is complete and accurate; following up with others to ensure that agreements and commitments have been fulfilled.
Analytical Thinking - Tackling a problem by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach.
Financial Acumen - Interpreting and applying understanding of key financial indicators to make better business decisions.
Technical Expertise - Demonstrating depth of knowledge and skill in a technical area.
Individual Efficiency - Effectively managing time and resources so that individual work is completed efficiently.
Maintaining a high level of honesty, integrity, and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
Complying with all company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.
WHAT TO BRING
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
5+ years of manufacturing cost accounting experience.
Current and uninterrupted legal right to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Experience in a standard-costing environment.
Experience calculating labor and overhead rates.
Strong understanding of inventory accounting and manufacturing variances.
Advanced Excel skills.
WHAT WILL HELP
ERP experience (Oracle, SAP, JDE, QAD, Epicor, etc.).
Experience working with routings, BOMs, and work centers.
Experience partnering with Industrial Engineering and Operations teams.
Exposure to automotive or high-volume manufacturing.
CMA certification or pursuit of CMA preferred.
Gentex is an equal opportunity employer
Gentex extends equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees regardless of an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), disability, marital status, military service, height, weight, genetic information, or any other reason protected by law.
Assistance
Gentex is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at [email protected]. Gentex will not discriminate against any qualified individual who can perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- 5+ years of manufacturing cost accounting experience
- Current and uninterrupted legal right to work in the United States without sponsorship
- Experience in a standard-costing environment
- Experience calculating labor and overhead rates
- Strong understanding of inventory accounting and manufacturing variances
- Advanced Excel skills
- ERP experience, such as Oracle, SAP, JDE, QAD, or Epicor
- Experience working with routings, bills of materials, and work centers
- Experience partnering with Industrial Engineering and Operations teams
- Exposure to automotive or high-volume manufacturing
- CMA certification or pursuit of CMA
Gentex Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Gentex Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Gentex Corporation.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes multiple plan designs (PPO and CDHP) with HSA/FSA options, plus short- and long‑term disability and life insurance. Some locations provide an on‑site health clinic, adding convenient access to care.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include an employer‑matched 401(k) with a 5% company match mentioned and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. Salaried roles may also receive stock equity bonuses.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Quarterly profit‑sharing bonuses are available and often viewed as a strong part of total compensation. Total rewards are sometimes characterized as good for the area when these bonuses are included.
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What We Do
Gentex is a global, high technology electronics company that is managed by engineers and others who understand the freedom and discipline that's required to run an entrepreneurial company. We are a unique, profitable company that is vertically integrated in highly automated electronics, CMOS camera development and manufacturing, vacuum coatings, and glass bending and fabrication. We specialize in a broad spectrum of technologies and processes to deliver high quality products to the automotive, aerospace and fire protection industries. Thank you for visiting the Gentex Corporation (“Gentex”) LinkedIn page. This page is intended to share information about Gentex, its products and corporate culture. If you have specific questions about Gentex, please call our main phone number at 616.772.1800. Any content, views, opinions and/or responses to questions uploaded, expressed or submitted by third parties on the Gentex LinkedIn page, other than the content provided by Gentex, are solely the views, opinions and responsibility of the person submitting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Gentex. Gentex reserves the right to terminate any user's ability to access this LinkedIn page, and to edit or delete any material it deems inappropriate and/or in violation of any Gentex policy, including but not limited to: Equal Employment Opportunity, Discrimination and Harassment, Workplace Violence, Non-Solicitation, Conflict of Interest, Confidentiality, and Insider Trading.
