Our Client is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to play a key role in strengthening cost visibility, improving operational performance, and supporting strategic business decisions across the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the monthly manufacturing close process, ensuring accurate recording of costs, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial reporting
- Analyze plant and operational cost performance to provide meaningful business insights and support decision-making
- Prepare recurring manufacturing and operational reporting packages for leadership
- Monitor supply chain cost drivers, including vendor pricing, freight, import duties, and procurement activity to ensure accurate financial treatment
- Analyze and explain cost of sales variances against budget and forecast
- Evaluate Purchase Price Variance (PPV), manufacturing efficiencies, labor utilization, scrap, and yield performance to identify trends and opportunities
- Partner with operations teams to improve financial visibility and support operational excellence initiatives
- Lead annual standard cost updates and support development of cost of sales budgets
- Maintain and enhance standard product costing methodologies
- Develop and manage Bills of Materials (BOMs), routings, and cost structures for new and existing products
- Support new product launches through detailed product costing and margin analysis
- Partner with commercial and business teams to evaluate pricing and profitability opportunities
- Support annual audit activities related to inventory, manufacturing operations, and cost accounting
- Assist with financial and tax-related reporting requirements
- Coordinate and oversee physical inventory counts and cycle count processes across internal and third-party locations
- Ensure strong financial controls and inventory accuracy across operations
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA, CMA or MBA a plus
- 5+ years of accounting experience, with at least 3 years in manufacturing cost accounting (CPG industry highly preferred)
- Financial Analysis Skills: Proficient financial modeling and analysis skills
- ERP System Proficiency: Experience working with ERP systems (Oracle preferred)
- BPM System Proficiency: Experience working with Business Performance Management systems (IBM COGNOS TM1 preferred)
- Technical Proficiency: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite with advanced Excel skills (Pivot tables, v-lookups, and complex formulas)
- Communication Skills: Utilizes strong verbal and written skills to provide Finance and Leadership with clear cost variance narratives and analyses that explain the primary drivers of cost
- Business Travel: Ability and willingness to travel domestically
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