Cost Accountant - Hybrid, AI-Enabled & Growth-Driven

Treehouse Island, Inc.; De Pere (WI); Hybrid; USD 52,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

TreeHouse Foods in De Pere, WI seeks an Associate Cost Accountant to join the Finance team. The role supports cost and inventory accounting, journal entries, and financial close processes to ensure accurate product costs and reporting.

The position partners with Supply Chain Finance, Plant Finance, and Operations, offering process improvements, audits support, and collaboration across cross-functional teams. Hybrid work is available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance is required.
• CPA is preferred.
• A minimum of 2 years of progressive accounting or finance experience is required.
• Experience in cost accounting, inventory accounting, plant accounting, manufacturing, audit, or record-to-report experience is strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Teams is required.

Responsibilities

• Perform monthly close activities related to cost accounting and inventory, including preparing journal entries, completing account reconciliations, analyzing account activity, investigating reconciling items, and preparing supporting documentation.
• Maintain and analyze standard costs for new and existing materials and products, working with appropriate business partners to identify incomplete, inaccurate, or unusual costing information.
• Support inventory accounting and reporting, including preparing inventory reserve calculations, capitalized variance calculations, cycle count monitoring and reporting, and monthly reporting and analysis of inventory balances and activity.
• Assist with the annual standard cost roll and Annual Operating Plan activities, including data preparation, validation, variance analysis, issue resolution, documentation, and communication with key stakeholders.
• Assist with the maintenance and continuous improvement of cost accounting processes, procedures, reporting tools, and financial systems.
• Identify opportunities to improve costs accounting processes through automation and artificial intelligence (AI).
• Leverage tools such as Microsoft CoPilot and BlackLine to support process efficiency, accuracy, and control.

Skills

Cost accounting

Inventory accounting

Journal entries

Financial reporting

Variance analysis

Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA preferred

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Excel

Job description

TreeHouse Foods in De Pere, WI seeks an Associate Cost Accountant to join the Finance team. The role supports cost and inventory accounting, journal entries, and financial close processes to ensure accurate product costs and reporting.

The position partners with Supply Chain Finance, Plant Finance, and Operations, offering process improvements, audits support, and collaboration across cross-functional teams. Hybrid work is available.