Enterprise Cost Accountant (Mid-level Leader)

City Brewing Company; La Crosse (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

City Brewing Company seeks an Enterprise Cost Accountant to standardize and oversee cost accounting practices across all locations. You will manage BOMs, routings, and cost structures, ensuring data integrity to support pricing, capital investments, and portfolio strategy.

You will collaborate with plant operations, procurement, and finance leadership to align costing with operational reality, travel 10% domestically, and lead cross-site audits of cost data and internal controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of cost accounting or manufacturing finance experience, including multi-site exposure.
• Experience in brewery, beverage, food & beverage, or CPG manufacturing preferred.
• Demonstrated experience building or auditing BOMs, routings, and standard costing in an ERP/MRP system.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain standardized BOM, routing, and costing structures across all locations.
• Own enterprise standard costing methodology (materials, labor, overhead) and lead annual standard cost-setting company-wide.
• Audit BOMs, routings, and cost data across sites to drive corrective actions.
• Serve as enterprise SME and system owner for costing modules within ERP/MRP.
• Develop and enforce costing policies and internal controls for audit readiness and inventory valuation.

Skills

Cost accounting

Multi-site cost responsibility

ERP/MRP systems

Advanced Excel

BI tools

Manufacturing finance

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Job description

City Brewing Company – Who We Are

City Brewing & Beverage is a leading U.S. co-manufacturer for top beverage brands. With more than 25 years of experience and state-of-the-art high scale and high volume facilities, we have the ability to produce a diverse portfolio of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. We foster a collaborative, growth-focused workplace where employees are empowered to learn, lead, and make an impact while helping shape the future of the beverage industry.

City Brewing Company – Who We Are

City Brewing & Beverage is a leading U.S. co-manufacturer for top beverage brands. With more than 25 years of experience and state-of-the-art high scale and high volume facilities, we have the ability to produce a diverse portfolio of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. We foster a collaborative, growth-focused workplace where employees are empowered to learn, lead, and make an impact while helping shape the future of the beverage industry.

Summary

The Enterprise Cost Accountant is responsible for standardizing and overseeing cost accounting practices - Bills of Materials, production Routings, and Cost Structures - across all four City Brewing locations. This role ensures costing methodology is applied consistently company-wide, enabling leadership to rely on accurate, comparable SKU-level cost and margin data across the network. The position partners with plant-level Cost Analysts, operations, procurement, and commercial leadership to maintain data integrity and support enterprise decisions on pricing, capital investment, and portfolio strategy.

Responsibilties

Cost Standardization & Governance

• Establish and maintain standardized BOM, routing, and costing structures applied consistently across all locations
• Own the enterprise standard costing methodology (materials, labor, and overhead absorption) and lead the annual standard cost-setting process company-wide
• Conduct periodic cross-site audits of BOMs, routings, and cost data to identify inconsistencies and drive corrective action
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert and system owner for costing modules within the ERP/MRP platform
• Develop and enforce costing policies and internal controls supporting audit readiness and inventory valuation integrity

Cost Analysis & Reporting

• Consolidate SKU-level and site-level cost and margin data into a unified enterprise view for leadership
• Analyze cross-site cost variances - labor rates, overhead absorption, yield, freight - to identify best practices and improvement opportunities
• Build and maintain enterprise dashboards and standard reporting on cost trends and margin by SKU, site, package type, and brand family
• Support corporate budgeting, forecasting, physical inventory counts, and audit requests requiring consolidated cost data

Cross-Functional & Strategic Support

• Partner with plant management, operations, procurement, and commercial leadership across all locations to ensure costing reflects operational reality
• Support cost analysis for new product development, capital projects, new site onboarding, and co-packing or contract arrangements
• Partner with the Corporate Controller and Finance leadership on internal controls related to inventory valuation and cost accounting

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field required
• 5+ years of cost accounting or manufacturing finance experience, including exposure to multi-site or enterprise-level cost responsibility;
• Experience within brewery, beverage, food & beverage, or CPG manufacturing strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience building, standardizing, or auditing BOMs, routings, and standard costing methodology within an ERP/MRP system, ideally across multiple facilities
• Familiarity with industrial brewing process and terminology, preferred
• Strong understanding of standard costing, variance analysis, and overhead absorption methodologies
• Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, modeling); experience with BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau, preferred
• Willingness to spend time on the production floor at multiple locations to validate that data reflects operational reality
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate cost details into actionable insight for non-finance stakeholders and to drive consistent practices across site teams
• Ability to travel 10% domestically during the year

City Brewing Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all applicants will be considered without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.