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About the Role

Cyclic Materials is seeking a hands-on Cost Accountant to enhance cost visibility, inventory integrity, and financial decision-making across its Canadian and US manufacturing operations. This role is for a manufacturing finance professional who enjoys working closely with plant operations, owning core cost-accounting processes, and translating production data into actionable insights to improve margins, working capital, and operational performance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and continuously improve the standard cost system for raw materials, work in process, finished goods, labour, burden, and manufacturing overhead.
• Prepare and explain monthly production variances, including purchase price, material usage, labour efficiency, yield, scrap, volume, and overhead absorption.
• Lead cost-accounting activities for month-end close, including inventory valuation, accruals, journal entries, account reconciliations, and cost-of-goods-sold analysis.
• Perform inventory reconciliations and cycle-count analysis; investigate discrepancies and support corrective actions that strengthen inventory accuracy and controls.
• Develop product, process, and customer profitability analysis to support pricing, make-versus-buy decisions, sourcing choices, and capacity planning.
• Support annual budgeting, forecasting, and periodic reforecasting for manufacturing costs, inventory, capital projects, and plant performance.
• Support capital-expenditure tracking, project cost reviews, fixed-asset accounting, and post-investment analysis in collaboration with project owners.
• Contribute to external audits, internal controls, accounting-policy compliance, and the documentation of scalable processes as the business grows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related discipline.
• Four to five years of progressive accounting experience in an industrial manufacturing environment, with meaningful responsibility for cost accounting and inventory.
• Strong knowledge of standard costing, manufacturing variances, inventory valuation, cost of goods sold, and month-end close.
• Hands-on experience using Microsoft Dynamics – Business Central ERP is a definite advantage.
• Experience working with ERP and manufacturing systems; comfort extracting, reconciling, and analysing high-volume operational and financial data.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, data modelling, and clear management reporting.
• Sound understanding of Canadian accounting requirements and internal-control principles; experience with USGAAP and IFRS is an asset.
• Strong analytical judgment and the ability to move from a variance or data issue to root cause, business impact, and practical action.
• Clear communication skills and the confidence to work constructively with production, engineering, procurement, and senior finance stakeholders.
• Demonstrated attention to detail, ownership, and the ability to manage deadlines in a dynamic, scaling organization.
• A practical, floor-to-finance mindset: comfortable validating assumptions where work happens, not only in spreadsheets.
• Curiosity about manufacturing processes and the discipline to connect operational drivers with financial outcomes.
• A continuous-improvement orientation and the ability to design controls and reporting that scale with a growing operation.
• Comfort operating with evolving systems, priorities, and processes while maintaining accuracy and accountability.
• A collaborative, service-minded approach and genuine interest in Cyclic Materials’ circular-economy mission.
• Applicants for employment in the Canada and US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States or Canada and with Cyclic Materials.

Skills

• Standard costing
• Manufacturing variances
• Inventory valuation
• Cost of goods sold
• Month-end close
• Microsoft Dynamics – Business Central ERP
• ERP systems
• Manufacturing systems
• Data extraction
• Data reconciliation
• Data analysis
• Advanced Excel
• Pivot tables
• Lookup functions
• Data modelling
• Management reporting
• Canadian accounting requirements
• Internal control principles
• USGAAP
• IFRS
• Analytical judgment
• Root cause analysis
• Business impact assessment
• Actionable insights
• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Ownership
• Deadline management

Location

• Ontario
• Arizona
• South Carolina

Work Type

• Manufacturing operations

Experience Level

• Four to five years of progressive accounting experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related discipline
• CMA strongly preferred
• US or Canadian CMA designation
• Cost Accounting program

Salary/Compensations

• $65,000—$85,000 CAD

Benefits

• Health and Dental coverage
• RRSP (Canada)/ 401K (USA) contributions
• Generous paid time off program

About the Company

• Cyclic Materials™ is building a resilient circular supply chain for rare earth elements and other critical materials.
• Through our proprietary MagCycle℠ and REEPure℠ processes, we recover rare earths from end-of-life products and transform them into high purity materials used in the production of permanent magnets.
• These materials are critical to the modern economy, including the production of electric vehicles, electronics, AI infrastructure, wind turbines, defense, and advanced manufacturing technologies.
• Founded in 2021, Cyclic Materials has rapidly progressed from technology development to commercialization.
• We currently operate facilities in Ontario and Arizona, with a new expansion underway in South Carolina.
• Backed by US$75 million in Series C financing led by T. Rowe Price, alongside strategic investors including Microsoft, Amazon, Hitachi Ventures, BMW i Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion fund, Energy Impact Partners, ArcTern Ventures, and Fifth Wall, we are scaling to meet growing global demand for a secure and sustainable rare earth supply.
• We have established commercial partnerships with global industry leaders such as Solvay, Vattenfall, Lime, and VACUUMSCHMELZE, enabling the deployment of recycled rare earth materials into real world supply chains.
• In 2025, Cyclic Materials was named one of the Top 10 Climate Tech Companies to Watch by MIT Technology Review.
• We are growing quickly and building the industrial backbone required for a circular rare earth economy.
• Joining Cyclic Materials means working on complex and exciting challenges at scale, alongside a team committed to executing and delivering measurable impact.
• If you are motivated by building critical infrastructure and advancing the circular economy, join us and help accelerate the growth of rare earth recycling.

Equal Opportunity

• As an Equal Opportunity employer, Cyclic Materials is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all individuals have an opportunity to succeed.
• If you require accommodation at any stage of the interview process, please email HumanResources@cyclicmaterials.earth.