olivejune
Senior Cost Accountant
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Finance
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- CPA or CMA preferred
- 5–8+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Minimum 3 years of cost accounting experience in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with high growth and/or CPG companies
- Demonstrated experience participating in at least one full ERP implementation or major ERP upgrade
- Strong understanding of: Standard costing Inventory accounting GAAP Internal controls
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Infor, Epicor, NetSuite, or similar
- Experience with business intelligence tools is a plus
Nice to have
- CPG operations
- Public company or SOX compliance experience
- ERP implementation leadership
- Experience developing financial dashboards and KPIs
Full description
Position Summary
The Senior Cost Accountant is responsible for leading all aspects of cost accounting, inventory accounting, and manufacturing financial analysis while driving continuous process improvements. This role partners closely with Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance to ensure accurate product costing, inventory valuation, and financial reporting. The ideal candidate has strong experience implementing or optimizing ERP systems and enjoys improving processes in a growing organization.
Key Responsibilities
Cost Accounting
- Maintain and enhance costing methodologies.
- Calculate, analyze, and update product cost and material costs.
- Analyze COGS variances and trends including purchase price, and production volume.
- Prepare monthly cost accounting journal entries and reconciliations.
- Review inventory transactions to ensure accuracy and compliance with company policies.
- Perform margin and profitability analyses by product, customer, and business unit.
- Assist with annual physical inventory processes.
Inventory Management
- Maintain accurate inventory valuation in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
- Partner with Operations to improve inventory accuracy and cycle count programs.
- Analyze inventory reserves, obsolescence, excess inventory, and slow-moving stock.
- Reconcile inventory subledger to the general ledger.
Financial Reporting & Analysis
- Support monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes.
- Prepare management reports explaining cost trends and manufacturing performance.
- Develop dashboards and KPIs related to inventory.
- Assist with budgeting, forecasting, and annual operating plans.
- Support internal and external audit requests.
ERP Implementation & Process Improvement
- Serve as Finance lead or key contributor during ERP implementations, upgrades, and optimization projects.
- Design and validate cost accounting processes within ERP systems.
- Test costing functionality, inventory transactions, production workflows, and financial reporting.
- Develop internal controls around ERP cost accounting modules.
- Create documentation, procedures, and end-user training materials.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve reporting efficiency.