Tool Install Cost Accounting Analyst

WGNSTAR is a dynamic and growing company with a global footprint. Primarily focused on the semiconductor industry, we provide a platform for you to expand your career with knowledge gained on the job training, and tailored development. We know we need talented people like you that hold similar values, which is why we do not put limits on learning, development, industry, and personal growth. Start your path to a WGNSTAR career today!
Schedule: M-F (7:00am-4:00pm)
Pay Rate: $45+ DOE
Location: Boise, ID
Position Type: Full Time
Benefits: This position is eligible for WGNSTAR’s full benefits package, including Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k). Additional benefits are listed at the end of this posting.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides tool-level cost accounting support for semiconductor tool installation projects, ensuring accurate tracking of material spending, commitments, accruals, and reconciliations.
• Partners with procurement, vendor management, cost controls, construction teams, and project leadership to maintain financial transparency and reporting accuracy.
• Tracks material commitments, purchase orders, receipts, and installation-related expenditures by individual tool and installation package.
• Audits installed materials against procurement records, field execution status, and approved scope to verify costs are accurate, complete, and properly assigned.
• Investigates and resolves cost discrepancies, mismatches, and allocation issues in collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Manages accruals, cost allocations, financial adjustments, and month-end reconciliation activities to ensure accurate forecasting and reporting.
• Leads or supports spending reconciliations at key project milestones, including area turnover, construction completion, and project closeout.
• Identifies emerging cost risks, supports corrective actions, and prepares cost summaries and documentation for leadership review and decision-making.

Requirements:

• Strong analytical, reconciliation, and cost management skills with the ability to accurately track commitments, actuals, accruals, forecasts, and variances.
• Experience translating procurement, field execution, and project data into clear cost reporting, financial insights, and actionable recommendations.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across finance, procurement, project controls, construction, and project management teams in complex project environments.
• Advanced systems and data analysis capabilities, including SAP and Excel, with experience validating large data sets, identifying discrepancies, and driving issue resolution.
• Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of relevant experience in cost accounting, project controls, procurement support, financial reconciliation, construction cost management, or other related discipline. 

Preferences: 

• Experience supporting semiconductor fabs, tool installations, advanced manufacturing, and other large-scale industrial capital projects.
• Knowledge of construction cost management systems, procurement processes, change management workflows, and project closeout requirements.
• Proven ability to reconcile material, equipment, and installation costs at the tool, system, area, or contractor level while ensuring accurate invoice validation and accrual management.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly present cost performance, forecast changes, and financial risks to both project teams and executive leadership.

 

Physical Effort/Activities:
May be required to walk up to 5+miles per day, able to be on feet for 8-10 hrs at a time, able to bend, twist, push/pull, crouch, kneel in confined spaces, work at heights, on a ladder, and lift up to 50-75 pounds. The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Additional Benefits: Paid Vacation, Select Holidays, Overtime Opportunities, On-site Facilities & Career Development Opportunities.
The people who thrive most at WGNSTAR are those individuals who perform well in a team environment, enjoy interacting and engaging with several different stakeholders, and adapt quickly to changing environments, while leveraging their skills, quality, and knowledge to drive themselves and their teams towards continuous improvement and success.
This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.