Senior Cost Accountant

Your Role and Impact

As a Senior Cost Accountant, you will ensure compliance with Flowserve policies, US GAAP, SOX, and local regulations while executing monthly closing, reporting, and cost accounting activities. You will also analyze manufacturing variances, support standard cost roll processes, and work closely with finance partners to improve accuracy and drive process improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with Flowserve policies, US GAAP, SOX and local statutory laws and regulations and that business is conducted within Flowserve ethical Code of Business Conduct.


• Execute the monthly closing and reporting procedures for the assigned reporting units.


• Quality and timeliness of accounting and reporting, ensuring all financial data are accurate, complete and submitted in accordance with Flowserve's timetable


• Prepare project review summary including process to signoff orders.


• Perform Sales and margin analysis, monitors and analyzes manufacturing variances


• Perform Standard Cost Roll process annually.


• Determination and review of sales or production-related valuation adjustments (penalties, warranty costs, inventory write-offs, slow and obsolete stock and others.)


• Identifies and proposes possible improvements


• Complete monthly Supplemental Reports


• Closely work with finance business partners and assist in creating forecasts and deviation analyses


• Quarterly Site Analytics template preparation


• Participate and lead projects as required


• Other responsibilities or tasks that are within your skills and abilities, whenever reasonably instructed.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, economics, finance or related major required.


• At least 3 years relevant experience in cost accounting.


• Clear and concise communications skills


• Ability to challenge the norm and look for better solutions/processes.


• Intermediate/Advanced Excel skills.


• Knowledge of SOX/US GAAP preferred.


• Strong analytical skills and experience.


• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks in a rapidly changing environment.


• Ability to work independently to resolve a wide variety of multi-faceted financial accounting problems.


• Good communication skills, written and oral.


• Attention to detail.


• Establish and maintain effective work relationships with stakeholders


• Ability to recognize and resolve issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Systems knowledge: Oracle, BPC, SAP will be beneficial and preferred.


• Experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.

What We Can Offer You

At Flowserve, you'll find a range of options to fit your, and your family's, needs. We want to provide our team with the right resources to invest in your physical, mental and financial well-being no matter where you sit or what stage of life, you're in.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive Salary


• Major Medical Expenses Insurance


• Food Coupons


• Life & Accident Insurance


• Vacation Bonus


• Savings Fund


• 30 Days Christmas Bonus

*Benefits vary by job, location and/or collective bargaining agreement.