Manager Cost Accounting

☞ Samsonite

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Update day: 17-11-2025

Location: Oudenaarde East Flanders

Category: Accounting / Auditing Finance / Bank / Stock

Industry: Manufacturing

Job type: Full-time

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About Us

Who we are:

Samsonite is the worldwide leader in superior travel bags, luggage, and accessories combining notable style with the latest design technology and the utmost attention to quality and durability. For more than 100 years, Samsonite has leveraged its rich heritage to create unparalleled products that fulfill the travel lifestyle needs of conscious movers everywhere. With a portfolio of brands including Samsonite, Tumi, American Tourister, High Sierra, Gregory, Hartmann, and Lipault Paris, our products are sold in over 100 countries in North America, Asia, Europe and Latin America through our company-operated retail store, websites and a variety of retail partners.

Job Description

For our Finance Shared Service Center quarter located in Oudenaarde, Belgium we are currently looking for an experienced

Cost Accounting Manager

Are you an experienced and detail-oriented Cost Accounting Manager who enjoys working in a dynamic environment? We are looking for a driven professional to strengthen our financial team. You will lead a team of three accountants and oversee the cost accounting for our plant and European Distribution Center in Belgium. Based in the finance shared service center in Oudenaarde, you will collaborate with finance team members, plant managers, and departmental heads, and supervise the accounting team of a plant abroad. The Cost Accounting Manager reports directly to the VP Finance and CFO Europe.

Key Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will:

  • Be responsible for setting up and maintaining accurate cost accounting information
  • Maintain, review and report an average cost and standard cost inventory system
  • Be responsible for inventory valuations based on FIFO rules and the lower of cost or market method
  • Maintain and review a cost+ IC transfer pricing system
  • Participate in the month-end, quarterly, and year-end close and perform variance analysis of fixed and variable operating budgets
  • Assist in and review plant operating budgets
  • Participate in statutory and group accounting audits and acting as a spokesperson to external and internal auditors for cost accounting matters
  • Maintain and improve internal control processes
  • Analyze complex manufacturing processes in coordination with plant directors to improve decision-making
  • Prepare a variety of financial statements, reports, and analyses timely and accurately
  • Communicate financial information with plant directors, and senior and executive management

Applicants Should Ideally

  • 7 years of cost accounting experience, preferably in the manufacturing business
  • 2 years of management or supervisory experience
  • Master’s degree in accounting, Finance, or similar
  • Strong analytical skills with a keen eye for detail, forward-thinking, and numerical insight
  • High level of proficiency with computer software (SAP: PP/MM/PM/FI/SD and Excel)
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively
  • Proactive attitude and problem-solving ability
  • Proficiency in Dutch and English, both written and spoken

Samsonite Is Offering

  • A dynamic and challenging role at the European Headquarters of a leading international company.
  • A permanent position with a competitive salary package and attractive fringe benefits.
  • The opportunity to contribute to a global brand and develop your career in a supportive and professional environment.

Travel is one of life’s greatest experiences. Are you ready to travel with us?

Great! Apply to this vacancy by clicking on below button and don’t forget to upload your resume.

About The Team

Why you’ll love working here:

  • Our employees matter. As a people-focused business, we work hard to provide meaningful rewards and development opportunities for our employees, recognizing performance, and creating a supportive working environment for them, wherever they are based.
  • Vibrant culture. We are committed to a diverse and rich culture, welcoming people from all walks of life. Our long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion empowers us to bring our authentic selves and unique differences to work every day.
  • Socially responsible. We want to minimize our products’ impact on the environment and help create positive journeys worldwide. We do this by creating the best products using the most sustainable and innovative materials, methods, and models.

What We Value

At Samsonite, we do more than create the bags that move with our consumer, we inspire and celebrate the moments that move them. We believe we have a responsibility to the world in how we operate, the products we sell, the communities where we live and work, and how we treat the people we employ. We’re as diverse as travel itself, and like travel, your journey with Samsonite presents the opportunity to be a part of something bigger and explore your passions. This is why we offer various paths for professionals and celebrate the knowledge and skills they bring to our team. We are committed to a respectful workplace that allows our team members to bring their best selves to the workplace daily.

Samsonite is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting and maintaining a work environment in which all applicants, associates, customers, and other individuals are treated with dignity and respect free from unlawful harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.
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