Senior Cost Accountant: Drive Cost Efficiency & Insight

Novus Foods; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Novus Foods is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to ensure technical accuracy of the P&L and Balance Sheet as they relate to cost accounting. This role partners with Procurement, FP&A, Transportation, and Plant Controllers to support cost efficiency and improve budgeting accuracy.

The position involves analyzing expenses, managing standard costs, performing variance analyses, supporting pricing with costing analytics, and collaborating with R&D, Sales, and Data Management on BOM setup

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years Cost Accounting experience.
• Advanced understanding of costing methods, General Ledger associations and Income Statement impacts.
• Thorough understanding of cost accounting principles and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes expenses and cost transactions; ensures transactions are recorded accurately in the correct period and GL accounts.
• Prepares periodic reports tracking data across plant activities.
• Manage standard costs of raw materials and finished goods per corporate policies.
• Perform labor and overhead variance analysis (standard vs actual).
• Support pricing with current costing analytics including inbound freight.
• Partner with R&D, Sales and Data Management on costing and BOM maintenance.
• Create weekly inventory adjustments to forecast and reconcile monthly inventory.

Skills

Cost accounting

Budgeting & forecasting

Financial analysis

Communication

Excel

Ledger integrity

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance

Tools

SAP

Job description

Novus Foods is seeking a Senior Cost Accountant to ensure technical accuracy of the P&L and Balance Sheet as they relate to cost accounting. This role partners with Procurement, FP&A, Transportation, and Plant Controllers to support cost efficiency and improve budgeting accuracy.

The position involves analyzing expenses, managing standard costs, performing variance analyses, supporting pricing with costing analytics, and collaborating with R&D, Sales, and Data Management on BOM setup