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Cost Accountant II

Regal Rexnord
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 31 Oct 2025

About the role

This is an on-site position based out of our Taylors, South Carolina plant. All candidates must be willing and able to work from this location.

Summary

This dynamic and strategic leadership role is responsible for overseeing financial management and operational control at our Taylors, SC plant. As a key business partner to the local operations team, this position plays a critical role in driving financial performance, ensuring fiscal accountability, and supporting strategic decision-making through in-depth analysis and forecasting.

The role encompasses financial reporting, cost management, and variance analysis, providing leadership with the insights needed to optimize efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance profitability. Additionally, this position proactively collaborates with plant leadership to develop and deploy key operational metrics, identify improvement opportunities, and implement sustainable financial strategies that align with the long-term goals.

Responsibilities

  • Summarize and present financial results and key sales and cost drivers.
  • Build and lead variance analysis to key benchmarks (budget, forecast, prior year, etc.) and clearly communicate key assumptions/inputs to plant leadership to ensure achievement of performance objectives.
  • Ownership of budget process working with plant leadership to set direction and establish financial targets.
  • Perform all FP&A reporting to management on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
  • Be a key business partner to management, providing insight into the financials of the facility.
  • Develop and deploy key operational metrics and analysis to support daily management of the business while proactively managing costs and working capital to drive sustainable improvement.
  • Partner with operations to support make/buy decisions, capital investments, inventory management, ad hoc analysis, and other needs.
  • Lead inventory standard costing and margin analysis activities, including managing the annual standards roll and physical inventory.
  • Conduct ad-hoc financial analysis/special projects to assist team in understanding business performance & offer solutions to improve performance.
  • Partner with centralized functions to drive compliance (GAAP, SOX).
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
  • CPA designation is preferred.
  • 3-5 years of progressive experience in financial/accounting functions, including cost, in a manufacturing environment.
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office applications with expert level Excel skills.
  • Ability to clearly and concisely communicate complex financial information.
  • Ability to maintain professional skepticism – with capability to validate accuracy of reporting and draw general conclusions on the data.
  • Flexibility to work in a dynamic team environment – with requests from inside and outside of immediate work team – and some requests directly from senior leadership.
  • Ability to influence cross functionally and across multiple locations.
  • Continuous improvement mindset.
  • Results oriented with a bias for action, including ability to meet business critical deadlines.
  • Proven high personal integrity.
  • Previous experience with SAP or OneStream strongly preferred.

    Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a “U.S. Person”, which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States, or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.”

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Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
  • Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays
  • 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
  • Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
  • Paid Leaves
  • Tuition Assistance


About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, c

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