Senior Accountant – Secondary Processing

Silver Bay Seafoods; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit seeks a Senior Accountant for its Seattle plant to anchor day-to-day operational accounting, ensure data integrity, and provide critical financial visibility for facility efficiency.

You will lead monthly closes, support budgeting, analyze variances, and drive cost-saving initiatives across BOM, inventory, and overheads, while ensuring strict GAAP compliance and internal controls.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of manufacturing cost structures, overhead allocation, standard costing, and variance analysis.
• Proficient in translating data into structured projections and financial commentary.
• Experience with physical inventory reconciliation, cycle counting, and obsolescence tracking.
• ERP/system literacy for order entry, billing, AP, and financial transmissions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the monthly close process for the facility and prepare plant financial statements.
• Support annual budgeting and long-range financial models with plant management.
• Analyze variances and provide actionable commentary to leadership.
• Perform CapEx analyses and ad hoc financial investigations as directed.
• Review plant performance metrics to highlight cost-saving opportunities.
• Coordinate BOM, labor routings, and price codes to reflect factory costs.

Skills

Cost accounting

BOM auditing

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Inventory control

ERP systems

Job description

Senior Accountant – Secondary Processing

Seattle, United States | Posted on 06/23/2026

As the Senior Accountant within the accounting team, thisrole serves as the primary financial anchor for plant operations. Workingclosely with the Divisional Controller, Plant General Manager, and OperationsManager, you will manage day-to-day operational accounting, ensure dataintegrity, and provide the critical financial visibility needed to drivefacility efficiency.

You will have functional oversight of plant-levelfinancial reconciliation—including cost accounting, inventory integrity,variance analysis, and purchasing governance—while maintaining absoluteconfidentiality. By translating raw operational data into precise, structuredreports, you will provide management with the analytical insight required tomanage risk, optimize manufacturing margins, and support informeddecision-making.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the position include the following:

• · Leadthe monthly close process for the facility, managing the preparation, analysis,and execution of comprehensive plant financial statements in strict alignmentwith corporate deadlines, formats, and protocols.
• · Supportthe annual budgeting and forecasting process by partnering with the Controllerand plant management to compile operating plans and long-range financialmodels.
• · Analyzeand interpret variances, transforming monthly operational results into clear,actionable financial commentary for plant and financial leadership.
• · Executead-hoc financial analysis, capital expenditure (CapEx) evaluations, andspecialized cost investigations as directed by financial or plantmanagement.
• · Reviewand benchmark plant performance metrics, tracking labor efficiency, rawmaterial yields, manufacturing overhead, and distribution expenses to highlightcost-saving opportunities.
• · Coordinateroutine audits of Bills of Materials (BOM), labor routings, and price codes toensure product standard costs accurately reflect factory floor realities.
• · Maintaina continuous feedback loop with the General Manager and Operations Manager tohelp diagnose production variances, bottleneck costs, and marginfluctuations.
• · Overseeand validate the integrity of raw material physical inventories andcycle-counting programs; investigate and resolve book-to-physical variances.
• · Managethe monthly inventory review process to identify, track, and mitigate financialexposure from slow-moving, excess, or obsolete (E&O) inventory.
• · Manageand perform Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable duties.
• · Ensurestrict GAAP compliance across all facility financial transactions, internalrecords, and data transmissions in accordance with corporate policies.
• · Maintaina strong internal control environment, proactively partnering with corporatefinance to uphold compliance and address internal audit requirements.
• · Guaranteeabsolute confidentiality and data security regarding sensitive financialmetrics, corporate strategies, and personnel data.
• · Performother duties as assigned to support team objectives and organizational goals.

To perform the jobsuccessfully, an individual should demonstrate the following functional andinterpersonal competencies:

Functional

• · CostAccounting & BOM Auditing: Strongunderstanding of manufacturing cost structures, overhead allocation, standardcosting, and variance analysis.
• · FinancialAnalysis & Forecasting: Ability tobuild accurate spreadsheets, support annual operating plans, and translateoperational data into structured projections.
• · InventoryControl: Experience withphysical inventory reconciliation, cycle counting processes, and trackingobsolescence.
• · ERP &Systems Literacy: Proficiency inmanaging order entry, billing, accounts payable, and financial transmissionswithin enterprise accounting systems.
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