Sr Manager, Global Cost Controller & Process Improvement (Hybrid - Acton, MA)

Job Title: Controller- Global Costing and Process Improvement  

Location: Acton, MA

Reports To: Director of Manufacturing Finance  

Job Type: Full-Time | Hybrid 

Direct Reports: 2 

Position Summary: 

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Global Costing and Process Improvement Controller to lead global product costing, inventory valuation processes, and the development of finance and accounting activities across our medical device manufacturing network. This role is responsible for maintaining accurate FIFO valuation files globally, overseeing the standard cost process and annual cost roll, coordinating reserve treatments and processes, ensuring efficient and harmonized processes across locations and supporting financial planning and forecasting. The Global Costing Controller will also manage warranty accruals, ensure robust internal controls including SOX compliance, and lead efforts to streamline and automate manual processes. This is a high-impact role with visibility across global operations and finance teams. 

Key Responsibilities: 

Costing & Valuation: 

• Oversee the standard cost process, including annual updates (overhead rate development), cost roll-ups (new part costing), and year over year or comparative analysis. 

• Collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and finance teams to ensure cost accuracy and transparency. 

• Monitor and reconcile inventory valuation across global sites. 

• Coordinate Global Cycle Count and Physical Inventory activities across the enterprise. 

• Review and Validate FIFO valuation files at the legal entity level.  Provide insight to the organization related to trends and forecasts of the FIFO balance. 

• Leverage automation, AI, and other tools to simplify processes across all costing activities. 

Warranty, Accruals, & Reserves: 

• Lead the preparation and analysis of warranty accruals and reserves, ensuring alignment with GAAP requirements/best practices, data focused calculations, and alignment with current operational capabilities. 

• Partner with quality and service teams to refine warranty/replacement actuals and forecasting model  assumptions. 

• Lead Inventory Reserve processes including Excess and Obsolete, End of Life products, Holiday Loaners, and quality related reserves. 

• Support audit and compliance (SOX) testing related to reserve calculations and representation within the Insulet P&L. 

• Support non-plant COGS related costs and reclasses related to non-revenue activities and manual COGS processing. 

• Leverage automation and tools to simplify processes and drive efficiency within the manufacturing accounting team. 

Planning & Forecasting: