Senior Manager, Industrial Advisory – Inventory Cost, Domestic Content

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Lead consulting projects focused on inventory costing, product costing, manufacturing cost analysis, and associated financial and operational processes.

• Evaluate client cost-accounting methodologies, systems, processes, controls, and data to uncover opportunities for enhancement.

• Deliver expertise in standard and actual costing, inventory valuation, bills of materials, manufacturing routings, costs, overhead, allocations, variances, inventory controls, ERP costing, and profitability reporting.

• Assess and enhance cost-accounting processes and ERP system configurations.

• Design and supervise analyses of manufacturing costs, purchasing activities, inventory, variances, product profitability, and both financial and operational data.

• Create methodologies for addressing complex costing scenarios.

• Document and evaluate client processes, controls, data flows, and workflows, and suggest improvements.

• Provide senior leadership for cost-accounting and financial-data aspects of domestic content consulting projects.

• Gather and analyze detailed information regarding product, cost, sourcing, supplier, purchasing, labor, routing, overhead, inventory, and manufacturing.

• Formulate methodologies for calculating domestic and non-domestic manufacturing costs or content.

• Establish repeatable processes, controls, and documentation to meet domestic content requirements.

• Collaborate with Baker Tilly professionals across tax, incentives, government contracting, engineering, supply chain, legal, and technology.

• Review analyses and documentation to ensure accuracy, consistency, and defensibility.

• Develop engagement strategies, work plans, staffing models, budgets, milestones, data requests, and deliverables.

• Oversee multiple concurrent engagements while ensuring quality, timeliness, and engagement economics.

• Act as a senior client contact and cultivate trusted relationships with finance, accounting, operations, procurement, supply chain, engineering, and executive leadership.

• Facilitate client interviews, collaborative sessions, data discussions, executive presentations, and findings meetings.

• Translate complex challenges into business implications and actionable recommendations.

• Review team analyses and deliverables for quality assurance.

• Provide coaching and technical support to team members.

• Identify opportunities for service expansion and develop new offerings.

• Engage in business development, proposals, presentations, and fee estimation processes.

• Build relationships within Baker Tilly to staff engagements with the right expertise.

• Contribute to thought leadership and market development initiatives.

• Travel as necessary to client locations and manufacturing sites.

⛳️ Requirements

• 4-year degree in a relevant field.

• 8 years of professional experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting or finance is preferred.

• Over 10 years of experience in accounting or finance roles within manufacturing companies or consulting firms focusing on inventory cost projects is preferred.

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and/or Certified Management Accountant (CMA) certification is preferred.

• In-depth knowledge of manufacturing cost-accounting principles, including standard and actual costing, inventory valuation, bills of materials, routings, material and labor costs, manufacturing overhead, allocations, and manufacturing variances.

• Proven experience in obtaining, validating, and analyzing detailed cost and operational data from manufacturing facilities, suppliers, or other external sources.

• Proven track record in designing, implementing, or enhancing cost-accounting processes and methodologies in manufacturing settings.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

• Experience in developing pro forma financial models that incorporate income statements and cash flow projections.

• Entrepreneurial mindset to recognize client needs and effectively build, plan, and manage services.

• Familiarity with building processes within SAP or Oracle Finance and Inventory Management Platforms.

• Prior experience with domestic content, manufacturing incentives, government contracting, tax incentives, country-of-origin analysis, or related product-level cost and sourcing requirements is advantageous but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive compensation and benefits package available to eligible employees.

• Flexibility in how and where you conduct your work.

• Opportunities for upward career progression.

• Meaningful relationships with clients, colleagues, and leadership.

• Development opportunities to enhance your skills.