<p>My team and I are recruiting for a fast‑growing, highly dynamic client seeking an experienced Cost Accounting Manager to lead the development and transformation of their cost accounting infrastructure. This is a hands‑on, high‑impact leadership role where you’ll partner across Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, and Leadership teams to build scalable processes, enhance cost visibility, and drive profitability across the organization.</p><p>You’ll have the opportunity to shape strategy, implement modern cost methodologies, and design systems that support a company experiencing rapid expansion.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Lead the strategy, design, and execution of cost accounting processes and reporting.</li><li>Build and maintain accurate cost models, standard costing methodologies, and variance analysis frameworks.</li><li>Partner cross‑functionally to improve operational efficiency, margin insights, and cost transparency.</li><li>Oversee inventory costing, production analytics, and cost allocations across multiple sites or business units.</li><li>Drive continuous improvement initiatives, process automation, and SOP development.</li><li>Ensure compliance with internal controls, accounting standards, and audit requirements.</li><li>Provide high‑impact reporting and actionable insights to leadership to support data‑driven decisions.</li></ul>
<p>We are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Product Manager IV to join our team in Austin, TX. In this long-term contract role, you will play a pivotal part in managing and enhancing financial systems within the Accounts Payable Suppliers domain. Your expertise will drive the development and execution of product strategies that optimize processes, improve operational efficiency, and elevate user experiences. This position requires a strong ability to bridge business and technical perspectives while ensuring alignment with organizational goals.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Develop and maintain a comprehensive product roadmap that aligns with long-term business objectives and stakeholder needs.</p><p>• Translate business requirements and customer needs into clear and actionable product documentation, including business requirements documents (BRDs).</p><p>• Facilitate communication between business users and development teams to ensure seamless integration of complex business processes and technical solutions.</p><p>• Lead and actively participate in Product Increment Planning sessions to align cross-functional teams and ensure successful product delivery.</p><p>• Identify, evaluate, and continually refine end-user personas and user journeys to align solutions with business needs.</p><p>• Partner with stakeholders to create detailed business cases for new solutions, secure necessary resources, and gain approval.</p><p>• Monitor industry trends, stakeholder feedback, and usage metrics to identify opportunities for product and process improvements.</p><p>• Conduct user testing, surveys, and interviews to gather actionable insights and drive enhancements.</p><p>• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure effective integration and alignment of systems and business processes.</p><p>• Drive strategic thinking and influence decision-making across the organization to foster collaboration and innovation.</p>
Additional Skills:<br><br>Deep hands-on expertise with dbt (Cloud or Core), including model development, testing, macros, packages, documentation, scheduling, and performance optimization.<br>Strong command of dbt project structure, materializations (including incremental models and snapshots), and integration with BI-owned metric certification and semantic layers.<br>Ability to evaluate when to leverage community dbt packages versus building custom solutions.<br>Expert-level SQL for complex analytical transformations and performance optimization.<br>Strong data modeling skills across dimensional (Kimball), Data Vault, and domain-oriented patterns, including temporal modeling, SCDs, and surrogate keys.<br>Proven judgment in balancing normalization vs. denormalization for performance, flexibility, and downstream analytics use cases.<br>Experience designing and implementing automated data quality testing and validation frameworks.<br>Familiarity with data quality tooling (e.g., Great Expectations) and core data quality dimensions across analytics workflows.<br>Familiarity with modern analytics stacks and how analytics engineering integrates with cloud data platforms, ingestion tools, dbt, and BI systems.<br>Working knowledge of DataOps practices such as version control, CI/CD, and automated testing.<br>Knowledge of K–12 education data domains and metrics, including enrollment, attendance, assessments, staffing, and multi-state reporting requirements.<br>Familiarity with education data privacy (FERPA), academic calendars, and operational rhythms.<br>Proven ability to lead technical teams, facilitate requirements and design discussions, and manage competing stakeholder priorities.<br>Strong communication and change management skills, translating technical capabilities into clear business value. <br> <br><br>Required experience:<br><br>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.<br>7+ years of experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, data analytics, or closely related technical roles.<br>3+ years of experience in technical leadership or people management, leading analytics, data, or BI teams.<br>Demonstrated hands-on experience with dbt (2+ years) building and maintaining production data models and transformations.<br>Strong data modeling expertise, with a proven track record designing dimensional models, analytics data marts, or business-facing data products.<br>Expert-level SQL skills, including complex analytical queries and performance optimization<br>Experience partnering with non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions.<br> <br>Preferred Education and Experience:<br><br>Master’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related analytical field.<br>dbt Analytics Engineering certification or equivalent demonstrated expertise<br>Hands-on experience with Snowflake or comparable cloud data warehouse platforms.<br>Experience working with K–12 education data, student information systems, or education analytics.<br>Experience building data solutions for multi-state or geographically distributed organizations.<br>Exposure to data governance practices, including business glossaries and data quality frameworks<br>Familiarity with modern data stack tools (e.g., ingestion, orchestration, BI, and data quality platforms).<br>Experience leading analytics teams using Agile or iterative delivery methodologies.
We are looking for an experienced Product Line Manager to join our team in San Antonio, Texas. In this role, you will oversee the lifecycle of innovative product lines, focusing on beverage dispensing technologies within the machinery manufacturing industry. You will play a key role in identifying market opportunities, driving product development, and ensuring alignment with business objectives while maintaining high standards of quality and sustainability.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Conduct in-depth market research to identify customer needs and industry trends.<br>• Develop and maintain a strategic product roadmap aligned with company goals.<br>• Lead the design and development of new products, ensuring usability, durability, and compliance with food safety standards.<br>• Collaborate with engineering teams to refine product designs and integrate innovative technologies.<br>• Prioritize product features based on market analysis and customer feedback.<br>• Manage cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful product development and timely launches.<br>• Oversee quality assurance processes, including product testing and continuous improvement initiatives.<br>• Implement competitive pricing strategies to balance profitability and market competitiveness.<br>• Support sales and marketing teams by providing product training and developing go-to-market strategies.<br>• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers and distributors to deliver tailored solutions.
IT Manager in the Industrial Power Systems Division (IPSD) segment of the Power & Energy GCIO organization. We are seeking an experienced IT Manager for our IPSD Large Engine facilities in South Texas. In this role, you will lead a team of 7-10 IT professionals who are responsible for providing application and site support for Seguin, Schertz and San Antonio. The role is responsible for supporting operations, technical infrastructure, project/portfolio execution, supporting strategic enterprise programs and leading modernization of systems aligned to strategic roadmaps. <br><br>The selected candidate must establish and maintain strong relationships with business partners, a global team of IT professionals and software vendors. Additionally, the incumbent will serve as a strategic IT business partner ensuring the delivery of high-quality, innovative solutions that align with business objectives. The scope manages 7-8 Caterpillar staff & 2-3 agency staff across 3 sites, and $6M in technology spend.<br><br>What You Will Do:<br><br>Lead and motivate a team overseeing the performance of individual team members and the team, fostering a culture of Lean, innovation and modeling Our Behaviors and Our Values In Action.<br><br>Drive innovation and solve complex business challenges by deploying new technologies that enable modernization, strengthen digital and AI capabilities, while leading process improvements and automation to improve operational excellence.<br><br>Manage the development, deployment, maintenance, and integration of IT applications aligned to business-relevant IT strategies, priorities and strategic roadmap.<br><br>Build and maintain relationships with business partners, vendors, and Caterpillar IT driving alignment in goals, strategy, priorities, and outcomes. <br><br>Remove roadblocks and prioritize resources to achieve strategic business objectives.<br><br>What You Will Have:<br><br>Leadership: Proven experience in leading and managing application or site support teams.<br><br>Business Acumen: Knowledge of business concepts, tools, and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business; ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.<br><br>Information Technology Trends: Knowledge of marketplace experience, developments and trends related to the organization's use of Information Technology (IT); ability to apply knowledge of IT appropriately to benefit the organization.<br><br>Talent Management: Knowledge of the critical competencies required to achieve intended results; ability to generate consistent approaches for hiring, selection, retaining and leveraging talent across the organization.<br><br>Vendor/Supplier Management: Knowledge of external provider management processes and ability to effectively manage the business relationship with external providers (e.g. vendors, service providers, contractors, consultants and suppliers).<br> <br><br>Top Candidates Will Also Have:<br><br>Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field<br><br>Strong skills in planning, initiating actions, delegation, consensus building, decision-making, and leadership.<br><br>Experience in industrial manufacturing and digital transformation.<br><br>Familiarity with multiple technologies (Distributed, Mainframe, Integration, MES, ERP).<br><br>Strong communication and conflict management skills, accountability, relationship building<br><br>Project management expertise (scope, cost, time estimation, resource planning).<br><br>Additional Information:<br><br>Travel is less than 10%