Cost Accountant

Come build your career.

It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™️. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of more than 50,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®️, BLACK+DECKER®️, CRAFTSMAN®️, STANLEY®️, CUB CADET®️, and HUSTLER®️.

The Job:

As a Senior Cost Accountant, you’ll be part of our Finance team working as an on-site employee.

You’ll get to:

• Perform timely variance analysis to support cost control and provide meaningful insights for business decision-making.
• Support key accounting and financial activities that help maintain operational efficiency and financial integrity within the manufacturing operation.
• Analyze manufacturing costs, inventory movements, and expense trends to identify risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams to provide financial analysis and support plant-level business needs.
• Prepare, organize, and manipulate data using advanced Excel tools, including pivot tables, to generate accurate and useful reporting.
• Support FP&A-related activities, including reporting, analysis, forecasting support, and interpretation of financial performance.
• Utilize ERP systems, preferably MAPICS or Infor XA, to review transactional data and support accounting processes.
• Ensure accuracy, attention to detail, and timely completion of deliverables in a deadline-driven environment.

The Person:

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it.

You also have:

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• At least 5 years of direct experience as a Senior Cost Accountant in a manufacturing environment.
• Strong FP&A experience and the ability to translate financial data into actionable insights.
• Advanced Excel skills, including the use of pivot tables, and experience working with ERP systems such as MAPICS or Infor XA is preferred.
• Assertive bilingual communication skills, strong attention to detail, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to work effectively with others while meeting deadlines.

The Details:

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan.

And More:

We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll get to:

Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.

Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go.

That’s where you come in. Join us!

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58,000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you’ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We’re the World’s largest tool company. We’re industry visionaries. We’re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks
You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

What You’ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren’t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you’ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that’s how the best work gets done. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
You’ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.