Senior Cost Analyst
Role Overview
Own accurate product costing, inventory valuation, manufacturing variance analysis, and financial insights across the end-to-end supply chain.
Partner with Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, and Commercial teams to improve cost transparency and support profitable, compliant growth.
Support products manufactured internally and through contract manufacturers.
Key Skills for This Role
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Position summary
Own accurate product costing, inventory valuation, manufacturing variance analysis, and financial insights across the end-to-end supply chain.
Partner with Procurement, Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, and Commercial teams to improve cost transparency and support profitable, compliant growth.
Support products manufactured internally and through contract manufacturers.
Key responsibilities
- Maintain and validate standard costs, lead annual costing, and update costs for product, sourcing, packaging, site, and productivity changes.
- Analyze manufacturing variances with Operations and turn findings into performance improvements.
- Support monthly inventory and cost-of-goods-sold close, reporting, reconciliations, and supporting schedules or journal entries.
- Perform supplier, commodity, freight, tariff, duty, and make-versus-buy analyses with Supply Chain and Procurement.
- Support product cost estimates, target-cost and margin analysis, and post-launch validation.
- Improve reporting, data quality, KPIs, recurring report automation, and actionable Supply Chain dashboards.
- Strengthen inventory and costing processes and controls, including inventories, master data, cost changes, and adjustments.
- Support audits with schedules and costing-methodology documentation.
- Provide financial analysis for S&OP demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and scenarios.
Qualifications and skills
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
- The description states 7–9 years of progressive accounting and finance experience and separately specifies a minimum of 3 years of manufacturing cost accounting experience.
- Experience supporting supply chain, operations, or manufacturing finance functions.
- Experience in vitamins, minerals and supplements, CPG, food and beverage, nutraceutical, or pharmaceutical manufacturing is preferred.
- Strong cost accounting, inventory accounting, and U.S. GAAP knowledge; advanced Excel skills, including PivotTables, Power Query, lookups, and financial modeling.
- Experience with Hyperion, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, NetSuite, or a similar ERP system.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, inventory management, procurement, and supply chain operations.
- CPA, CMA, or MBA is listed as an additional qualification.
Work authorization
The role is not available for immigration sponsorship or support, including completion of a STEM OPT Form I-983 training plan.
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