Job Title: Senior Cost Accountant
Job Summary:
The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for understanding and controlling costs at the source to support operational and financial performance. Reporting to the General Manager, this role partners with operations, engineering, and leadership to ensure accurate product costing, identify inefficiencies, and drive continuous improvement, while supporting data-driven decision-making across the business.
Responsibilities
- Maintain accurate product costing, including COGS, inventory, and overhead
- Analyze cost variances and identify root causes
- Monitor material, labor, scrap, and production performance costs
- Provide clear, actionable insights to support operational decisions
- Identify cost-saving opportunities and support continuous improvement efforts
- Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and tracking cost targets
- Support inventory control processes, including cycle counts and reconciliations
- Ensure strong cost controls and audit readiness
- Partner with operations, engineering, and supply chain teams
- Communicate financial information clearly to non-financial leaders
- Support cost modeling and quoting activities (with development over time)
- Other duties as assigned.
Academic Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance,
or related field.
- 5+ years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment
Strong understanding of:
- Standard costing
- Variance analysis
- Inventory and cost accounting principles
- Advanced Excel and ERP system experience
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong analytical mindset – able to interpret data and identify root causes.
- Operational curiosity – interested in how products are made.
- Problem-solving ability – connects financial data to actions.
- Attention to detail – high level of accuracy and discipline.
- Communication skills – translates financial data for non-finance stakeholders.
- Intellectual honesty – willing to challenge assumptions and highlight gaps.
What Linamar Has to Offer
- Competitive Compensation
- Employee Benefits package includes but not limited to, Drug, Dental & Vision etc.
- 401k Program
- Opportunities for career advancement.
- Sustainability Council
- Community based outreach supporting both local and global initiatives and charities.
- Discounts for local vendors and events, including auto supplier discounts.
About Us
Linamar Corporation is a Canadian-founded global manufacturer, renowned for its advanced engineering and innovative product development across diverse industries and markets. Our journey started in 1966 under the visionary leadership of our founder, and today, we remain committed to cultivating a culture of innovation and collaboration.
With access to state-of-the-art tools and resources, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact alongside a team of driven and passionate professionals. Join us and be part of a company where innovation, collaboration, and growth are at the heart of everything we do.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- 5+ years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Strong understanding of standard costing.
- Experience with variance analysis.
- Knowledge of inventory and cost accounting principles.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- ERP system experience.
- Strong analytical mindset and root-cause analysis ability.
- Operational curiosity and problem-solving skills.
- Attention to detail and audit readiness.
- Communication skills to translate financial data for non-financial stakeholders.
- Intellectual honesty and willingness to challenge assumptions.
What We Do
Linamar Corporation (TSX:LNR) is an advanced manufacturing company where the intersection of leading-edge technology and deep manufacturing expertise is creating solutions that power vehicles, motion, work and lives for the future. The Company is made up of two operating segments – the Industrial segment and the Mobility segment, both global leaders in manufacturing solutions and world-class developers of highly engineered products. The Industrial segment is comprised of Skyjack, MacDon and Salford. Skyjack manufactures scissor, boom and telehandler lifts for the aerial work platform industry. MacDon manufactures combine draper headers and self-propelled windrowers for the agricultural harvesting industry. Salford also supplies the agriculture market with farm tillage and crop fertilizer applicator equipment. The Mobility segment is focused on propulsion systems, structural and chassis systems, energy storage and power generation for both the global electrified and traditionally powered vehicle markets, and is subdivided into three regional groups and one global product group: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the newly formed Structures Group. The Regional Mobility groups are vertically integrated operations combining expertise in light metal casting, forging, machining and assembly. The Linamar Structures Group offers competitive lightweight innovations for safety-critical components and systems for the global mobility market. In addition, the eLIN Product Solutions Group focuses on Electrification and McLaren Engineering provides design, development, and testing services for the Mobility segment. Linamar’s medical solutions group, Linamar MedTech, focuses on manufacturing solutions for medical devices and precision medical components. Linamar has over 31,000 employees in 70 manufacturing locations, 14 R&D centres and 28 sales offices in 19 countries in North and South America, Europe and Asia, which generated sales of more than $7.9 billion in 2022.
