Sr. Cost Accountant

GLAUKOS – SR. COST ACCOUNTANT (Burlington, MA)

How will you make an impact?

As a Senior Cost Accountant supporting our Corneal Health manufacturing operations, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring financial accuracy, optimizing inventory controls, and enhancing cost accounting processes. Your contributions will directly support decision-making, strengthen audit readiness, and improve financial visibility across multiple departments. With your attention to detail and problem-solving mindset, you’ll help drive process improvements and promote cross-functional collaboration, making a measurable impact on our operational efficiency and financial integrity.

What will you do?

• Support monthly and quarterly journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial reporting.
• Assist with internal and external audit requests and ensure SOX/audit compliance.
• Reconcile and analyze inventory transactions, variances, and physical inventory across multiple sites.
• Partner with Supply Chain to monitor inventory accuracy, aging, and obsolescence.
• Lead or assist with costing activities including purchase price variance analysis, standard cost updates, and COGS reporting.
• Prepare and maintain key financial schedules, prepaid tracking, supplier reconciliations, and invoice processing.
• Participate in inventory improvement initiatives and support Oracle ERP optimization efforts.
• Collaborate across departments to support ad hoc projects, reporting, and operational alignment.

How will you get here?

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance required.
• 5+ years of relevant accounting experience, preferably within a manufacturing or operations environment.
• Solid understanding of general accounting principles, journal entries, and reconciliations.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills including pivot tables and large data set management.
• Experience with Oracle ERP is a strong plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and within cross-functional teams.
• Strong analytical skills with a keen attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of inventory accounting, costing methodologies, and operational finance is highly preferred.
• Proven time management skills and ability to meet strict deadlines.

  #GKOSUS

Generous. Innovative. Leadership-driven. Family-oriented. Socially responsible. 

 

Founded in 1998, Glaukos Corporation is an ophthalmic pharmaceutical and medical technology company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapies for the treatment of glaucoma, corneal disorders, and retinal diseases.

 

Our mission at Glaukos is to truly transform vision by pioneering novel, dropless therapies that can meaningfully advance the standard of care and improve the lives of patients suffering from chronic, sight-threatening eye diseases. 

 

Innovation is at the core of everything we do, and we are resolute in our commitment to challenge conventional thinking with new treatment alternatives that are supported by real science, robust clinical evidence, and an unrelenting focus on patients. 

 

Our constant pursuit of game-changing technologies that disrupt legacy treatment paradigms is encapsulated in the Glaukos mantra “We’ll Go First,” which articulates our willingness to take chances, our determination to forge new ground, and our commitment to continuous improvement in all that we do.   

 

Our company completed an initial public offering in June of 2015, and our shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “GKOS”. Our global headquarters is in Aliso Viejo, California with additional locations in San Clemente, California, and Burlington, Massachusetts.

 

Glaukos Corporation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.