Position Overview

The Senior Manager, Cost Accounting, plays a critical role in ensuring that we deliver timely, relevant cost and financial information to key stakeholders, including business partners, external and internal auditors.  This position also ensures that we have sufficient internal controls to assure \ that our financial results are to a high standard and meet all GAAP requirements. The successful candidate will be able to build and maintain strong relationships with business partners to deliver guidance and to provide the financial perspective to operations. We’re looking for someone who will embrace the challenges and opportunities of joining a fast-growing, public company. Further, this Manager is responsible for identifying and driving process improvements that will drive scale, improve financial accuracy, and drive business understanding. This is a unique finance opportunity to join a team when the business is early in its lifecycle with the ability to gain broad visibility to the operations business aspects of Outset.  

Responsibilities/Functions

• Partner with Manufacturing Operations, Supply Chain, and other COE’s to establish cost accounting processes which will deliver accurate financial results
• Own standard cost, labor, and overhead rates and support the related accounting and audit processes
• Prepare KPIs and other business indicators as part of our financial reporting process
• Examine and develop management reporting for material and labor variances, drive solutions to reduce E&O and scrap
• Identify business risks to financial reporting and support our established SOX processes.
• Own monthly / quarterly cost related close cycles to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting
• Provide oversight and accounting guidance to ensure accuracy in perpetual inventory record including support physical inventory count processes
• Drive cross functional compliance to internal company procedures through targeted education, mentoring, and monitoring
• Identify and lead initiatives to continuously improve and automate processes and methodologies to improve quality, improve business partner experience, and enable growth
• Drive staff engagement. Provide vision and leadership to team aligned with broader Company objectives.  Develop and mentor staff

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Accounting, or related experience
• Minimum 12 years of experience in a Finance and accounting related roles, including a minimum of 6 years in Cost Accounting
• Solid understanding of GAAP and related concepts

Desired Qualifications

• Strong business partnering track record. Ability to identify and drive actionable recommendations and effectively influence all levels of the Company
• High performance standards with high ethical values and confidentiality; passion for excellence and continuous improvement
• Great organization skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills, highly analytical with attention to detail
• High proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Highly motivated, flexible, and able to work in a dynamic environment

The Annual Salary Range for this role will be:  $135,000.00 - $183,000.00                                                                                                             

We feel passionately about pay equality.  Discretionary adjustments to the position’s starting compensation may be made in consideration of other relevant factors pertaining to eligible applicants, including, but not limited to, their specific skills, level, geographical location, and comparison to other employees already in the same or similar roles.

*This range represents our good-faith and reasonable estimate regarding what we reasonably expect to pay for this position at the time of posting. 

Outset also offers the following benefits:

• Medical 
• Dental
• Vision
• EAP/Mental Health
• Life Insurance/AD&D
• Short/Long Term Disability
• FSA (Dependent & Healthcare)
• HSA w/ Employer contribution
• Commuter Benefits
• 401K w/ company match
• ESPP
• Fertility benefits
• Wellness initiatives
• Legal Assistance
• Pet insurance
• Financial Advisement & Wellbeing
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Payback
• Employee discounts
• Professional Development/Learning
• Collaboration Days (lunch onsite)
• Happy Hours/Karaoke
• PTO/Sick time
• Holidays + Volunteer Day